Must see things in Washington DC -
- White House (See on both sides and take pictures)
- Washington Monument (if u go early in the morning before 8.30 am, u can buy tickets to go on top of this monument)
- Museum of Natural History (love the diamonds here and my son loved the amimals)
- Museum of American History (First lady dress room is a highlight here)
- Capitol Hill - you can take tour tickets for this and go inside..but u should not carry any food, water or any sprays. I had to dump them all.
- Washington War Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- If you have more time, you can checkout more museums like Air and Space, Art Museum, National Botanical gardens, Arlington Cemetry, National Auquarium etc.
Some Tips -
- Take a hotel in Arlignton area if you dont find one in downtown. Nice 4 star hotels come pretty cheap here in priceline. But parking will be expensive. We stayed in Hotel Palomar once and parking rates are very reasonable here. There are other hotels like Sheraton where we had to pay 20$ every day for parking..Outrageous.
- When you are ready to visit places, either you can take a CAB and come to the national mall or get your car and park it in Ronald Reagan Building. Its 10$ here. Other places it costs around 20$ per day.
- For those with kids, there is a big McDonalds in Air & Space museum. First time we visited, we didnt know and struggled a lot. We ate some food that we got from home as there were no restaurants near by and if we take the car out from parking, we had to pay another 15$ unnecessarily.
- After visiting white house, monument, lincoln memorial, take a cab to go to capitol hill as its very far to walk. CAB will cost less than 10$
- If you still have time, you can check out Luray Caverns in Virginia
This is it for now..Will add more as I remember..
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