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New Destination: San Francisco and The California Academy of Sciences

Monday, December 28, 2009
Written by Darcy Beech
We are excited to announce our new vacation packages to one of the top destinations in the country--San Francisco! Now you can experience a vacation to the stunning San Francisco Bay Area with its unique blend of history, culture, arts, sports, architecture, and exciting cuisine, while still receiving the quality and outstanding customer service you have come to expect from Get Away Today.

Each of our 2 night or longer San Francisco vacation packages  come with tickets to the California Academy of Sciences (one ticket for each person staying in your room). Here is some information to get you excited about this incredible museum, voted San Francisco's #1 attraction:

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution housed in the world’s largest public green building. Topped with a living roof, a 2.5 acre expanse of native California plants, it blends seamlessly into the beautiful landscape of San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Park.

Highlights of the Academy include:

Steinhart Aquarium: Home to 38,000 live creatures from around the world. Watch sharks and rays, explore a Philippine Coral Reef, meet a giant sea bass and giant Pacific octopus, and encounter an albino alligator and other fearsome creatures in The Swamp.

Morrison Planetarium: The world's largest all-digital planetarium. State-of-the-art technologies allow the planetarium to produce the most accurate and interactive digital Universe ever created.

Rainforests of the World: Step inside a living 4-story rainforest, with dripping water, croaking frogs and chirping birds. Peer into a bat cave, meet
chameleons, and climb into the tree-tops to find free-flying birds and butterflies.

Kimball Natural History Museum: This focuses on the evolution of life on Earth and maintenance of life on Earth. Among popular exhibits are the skeletons of a vast Tyrannosaurus Rex and an 87 foot long blue whale.

Daily Events: Fun-to-watch events include feeding time in the African Penguin Colony and Coral Reef Dives, in which a diver descends into the world's deepest living coral reef exhibit and tells you all about it.

This is just a taste of all the enthralling exhibits and events at this cutting edge scientific institution. Book your San Francisco vacation package today and experience for yourself the wonders of the California Academy of Sciences!

Photographs by Tim Griffith

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