And we arrived at the Griffith Observatory We're gonna
park for one hour... You don't have to pay any entry but you have to pay $10
per hour here, or you can park down below and just walk to the top
Apparently it's the best view you can get from Los Angeles... inside is very nice
you have coffee shops and all that Griffith Observatory
Signs of Life And here at the entrance
you have a sundial I'll show you guys
shows exactly the time with the shadow of the sun. It's pretty cool and it was
very accurate, like one minute different from my iPhone. Very nice!
The entrance
Just to think that all of that was donated, like the land was donated, and
the funds to do that was donated also and Griffith, the guy that gave all that, put
in his will that he wanted astronomy to be accessible to everyone, so that's why
you don't have to pay to enter. Which is pretty cool I think. It's one of the
coolest things about this place!
One fun thing about the observatory is that you
can walk around everywhere... you can go up, you can go down. So you have amazing
views all around and you don't have to pay for it right? So you can see the
whole city. Let me show you... So now we are
on the top of it and you can see the whole city, you can use those telescopes
to see everything
They put up the Hollywood sign when they were selling all the
lands to build the houses and then once all the land was sold, the Realtors
tried to put down the sign, but then people said "no this is a landmark now"
let's keep it. So nowadays the artists Association of Hollywood is
who pays, put the money, to keep the sign on. One hour is enough you if you're
not going to see the show. If you want to see the show, the show is like 30 to 40
minutes, so then you need more time. But yeah the show might be super cool
but we just don't have time. We have just today. Tomorrow we're going away from LA
We're going to San Diego. So we need to make the most of it today
We spend the rest of the day exploring Los Angeles, taking pictures with the
palm trees and ended the evening with the most amazing sunset at Santa
Monica's Beach
See you on the next video
Bye Troop ;)