San Francisco Zoo

San Francisco zoo, one of the top san Francisco attractions with more than 250 animal species located in the southwestern corner of san Francisco California between lake Merced and the pacific ocean along the great highways of san Francisco. The San Francisco zoo’s main entrance located on the north side across the street from defunct doggie diner, one block south of muni metro L taraval line is now to the west on the ocean side of the zoo of great highways.

Excellent san Francisco sightseeing can be enjoyed by the people. The zoo was opened on 1929 in United States with very good growth and tourist attractions. The major exhibits of the zoo are African savanna, gorilla preserve, grizzly gulch and lemur forest. The animals transferred from golden gate park to San Francisco zoo include two zebras, Cape buffalo, five rhesus monkeys, two spider monkeys, three elephants. Hardly, 930 animals and 250 species can found in the San Francisco zoo which established with membership of AZA.

Fisherman's Wharf

Fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco is the popular destination with pier 39 shopping or restaurant mall. There are wide number of reason the fisherman wharf is one of the san Francisco attractions are sea lions, boat tours, fresh street crab, convenient location, breadth of experiences. The historic waterfront serves as working fishing pier, so people expect fresh seafood at area restaurants. The San Francisco attractions pier 39 are the cannery, Ghirardelli square are tourist places.

It is one of the best tourist spot and more number of spend their days in fisherman’s wharf during the leisure time. Different shopping malls and restaurants are available in the San Francisco fisherman’s wharf and people during their travel to san Francisco, they can enjoy in the shopping malls and restaurants. Excellent riding are available in fisherman’s wharf and people always enjoy their rides.

The Golden Gate Bridge

The golden gate bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the golden gate by opening the San Francisco bay on the Pacific Ocean. As part of US route 101 and state route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. Among the top 10 San Francisco attractions, golden gate bridge is one of the top of the places of attractions. It has the longest suspension bridge span in the world and it is complete in 1937 and it becomes the international recognized symbol of San Francisco and California.

When people decide to have a San Francisco family vacation, then they are suggested to tour San Francisco to have a pleasurable and memorable sightseeing. In 2007, it was ranked to be fifth on the list of America Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.

San Francisco Top 10 Attractions

San Francisco offers beautiful 10 places of attraction for the tourist who visit San Francisco. When touring San Francisco, people use to have amazing and different sort of experience with attractive sightseeing, fun and memorable moments. The top ten places of attractions in San Francisco are

Golden Gate Bridge

Japanese Tea Garden

Exploratorium

Fisherman's Wharf

Alcatraz

Cable Cars

Chinatown

North Beach

Alamo Square Red-and-White Ferry

Places of San Francisco Attractions - Cable Cars

Among the places of San Francisco attractions, cable cars are one of the important attractions of San Francisco. When people visit San Francisco, they don’t miss the opportunity of riding the wonderful cars available. The San Francisco cable cars are unique cars that are street railways and they do not operate under their own power.

The cable cars were built by Andrew Hallidie in 1873 and the invention created great way in San Francisco transportation system and it opened doors for building on steep hills. Among the tourist, it created a great way for San Francisco sightseeing and 8 transit companies operate 600 cars on 21 routes covering 50 miles.

In San Francisco shuttle tours, cable cars operate on three routes. In that two routes start from the same place Powell and market. The three routes cable cars operated are Powell – Hyde, Powell – Mason and California Street.