Make a visit to Seattle

Seattle is the largest Washington state city, located between the Puget Sound bay and the Washington Lake. Founded in 1850-s and named after Noah Sealth, the chief of the two tribes that lived in the area, Seattle is however not a very big city. Its population is about half a million people only, but still, it is a well known place as Microsoft and Boeing main plants are found here.

It will take you no more than 20-30 minutes to cross Seattle downtown area on foot. You can do that by bus as well and it won’t cost you a thing as the payment is charged outside the downtown. Seattle transport is something amazing. Some buses “pretend to be” trolleybuses, but when they get outside the city, they take their “horns” down and move around the area without any cables. As for the exotic means of transport, street car which goes along the embankment and a monorail that connects downtown with a suburban district (which is for some reason called the Seattle Centre) can be found here.

The Seattle Centre meets you with its world know city symbol and a landmark - Space Needle tower. Contrary to what many people say, the tower is not that high – only 160 metres – and it isn’t the highest construction nor in Seattle, neither in it’s downtown. Probably this misbelief appeared because of lots of photographs made from the Queen Anne Hill, located farther from the skyscrapers than from the tower. The tower has an observation deck, a restaurant and a gifts shop and was built just as a tourist attraction.

Seattle is located by the sea, however numerous piers at the sea embankment do not fulfill their main function any more and are now occupied by shops and restaurants. One of the piers is occupied by Seattle Aquarium, which is currently being expanded and is to be opened in summer 2007. From the sea coast, the shore line rises sharply and if you want to get to the central market all you have to do is to get into a lift found right on the coast. The main market’s attraction is the merchants that throw fish all around the place. For some reason, they prefer not to pass it on to their colleagues carefully for packing and payment, but throw it to them from rather a big distance. However, their colleagues manage to catch the fish, and the customers are in raptures over this.

On the embankment, take a motor ship and go to the island the main attraction of which is the Tilikum Place – an Indian village. The inhabitants don’t look that natural, however, the island is a nice place to see and is inhabited by the deer.

The University of Washington is the other Seattle attraction. It might be called a separate city inside the city with its own culture, medieval castles and ideally green lawns. The University libraries are really impressive: there are 5 million catalogues, more than 10 million items settled on endless shelves, and a free access for everybody.

Seattle is also the capital for grange music, the most famous representative of which is Nirvana band.

And, finally, Seattle citizens are real coffee lovers - the city is the leader in coffee consumption.

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