Top 10 San Antonio and Austin (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide)
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN: 0756696682
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 San Antonio and Austin will lead you to some of the best attractions in Texas: Explore the Alamo, stroll the River Walk, and shop the Historic Market Square. The guide is divided by area with restaurant reviews for each, as well as recommendations for hotels, bars and places to shop.
This fully updated, pocket-sized guidebook is packed with must-see galleries and museums, the liveliest bars, clubs, and live music venues, the most fun places for kids, best hotels on every budget, and much more. There are dozens of Top 10 lists covering the Top 10 restaurants, Top 10 liveliest bars and clubs, the Top 10 places to stay — and even a Top 10 list of things to avoid!
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 San Antonio and Austin contains a pull-out map and guide that includes fold-out maps, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend a day in San Antonio and in Austin.
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Wildflowers in the Botanical Garden An oasis of beauty and color, these vast flower-filled gardens have roses in hues of pink and cream, and the Japanese garden has stone lanterns and water features. Trails through the large Texan native plant area ramble across fields of wildflowers from the Hill Country up to a lake in the Pineywoods section and on to Southwest Texas (For further details see San Antonio Botanical Garden & Lucile Halsell Conservatory). Friedrich Wilderness Park This is an
San Antonio until 1876, when the Quadrangle was built. By 1882 the army had selected the city for a garrison, and in 1890 the post was renamed for General Sam Houston (For further details see Fort Sam Houston). Military aviation began here in 1910, and after World War II the fort became the Army’s main medical training facility, and today is the world’s largest medical training facility. San Antonio Botanical Garden A short distance northeast of downtown, flora and fauna from around the world
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the spa at the Mokara Hotel across the river. 112 College St210 518 1000www.lamansion.comover $250 Marriott Riverwalk Located on the River Walk, this first-class hotel offers great service and comfortable rooms with balconies, luxurious bedding, and high-speed Internet access. 889 East Market St210 224 4555www.marriott.com/satdtover $250 Hotel Contessa The hotel’s stunning five-story atrium lobby looks out on the San Antonio River. The all-suites guest rooms are contemporary and spacious,
self-guided walking tour brochure outside the gate of the San Antonio Conservation Society. Tip: Be sure to have breakfast, lunch, or some baked goods in the fabulous Guenther House restaurant. Sauerkraut Bend The district was once farmland belonging to Mission San Antonio de Valero. In the 1860s, the current street plan was designed. So many wealthy German merchants built homes in the 1870s, that the area became known as Sauerkraut Bend. It developed into a neighborhood of large mansions