Los Angeles Travel Guide

Los Angeles, the "city of angels" and celluloid celebrities, is the city of glorious sunshine and blue skies throughout the year. Los Angeles is the city of Hollywood, the world's most glamorous movie industry. Images from this city have been flashed on millions of movie screens all over the world and Los Angeles has come to epitomize the ultimate American dream of riches and glamour, fame and fortune.

LA is also one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the U.S, a synthesis of many ethnic communities - Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, Korean and Middle Eastern - who give this city a distinct flavour. LA has often been described as 'nineteen suburbs in search of a city'. Everything about the city is on a grand scale - from the magnificent sights to the posh neighbourhoods and large homes sprawled around swimming pools and gardens. You cannot fail to be impressed by the sheer enormity and charisma exuded by Disneyland, Hollywood's Universal Studios, or Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and the shops and entertainment spots of Broadway. LA throbs on, with beautiful orange groves in the background and the shimmering beaches of Santa Monica, Newport and Long Beach.

A visit here can be really quite exhilarating.

Watch out for the traffic in LA - there are fewer people here than vehicles!