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Pavel @ LinkedInAtlanta February 17
Okay. After I took off from San Fran, I arrived in Atlanta, Georgia. I was about to spend a week at my aunt’s and uncle’s house. I was very eager to visit them and my cousins because I hadn’t seen them for a long time.
Atlanta is very beautiful from above. There were millions of lights across the whole city, which is spread across a vast territory. Many of you most probably know that Atlanta’s Airport is among the biggest in the world and it took us like half an hour on the ground to reach our gate :) traffic jam of planes
I had a whole programme scheduled for the week and I have to say it was a very exciting week. I got to visit some very interesting places – Georgia Aquarium – the biggest aquarium in the world, CNN, the High Museum of Art presenting paintings from the Renaissance and special guest exhibition of figures and objects from the army of the First Emperor of China, and others.
The Climate
The climate there was more or less the same as in Bulgaria. I was quite in a shock when I first arrived, coming from a city where it was 20 degrees centigrade the whole time to a city with temperatures below the zero. There is a much higher humidity there compared to my own city, but you get to feel that usually in the summer.
The City
Atlanta is another large city and there are multiple business areas. Some of the biggest companies have their headquarters there, and one I am sure you know about – Coca-Cola. Yeah, you can also go to the Coca-Cola museum, spend $30 and drink e few different types of Cola from different locations in the world, but I left that for my next visit.
The downtown is much less crowded and buzzing compared to San Francisco. It’s currently being reconstructed and will have a slightly different look from the one from the Olympic Games in ’86. Some very beautiful, modern buildings can be spotted when walking around the city.
I noticed no traffic jams whatsoever so my first impressions were that Atlanta is a great place to live in. Especially if you live in those peaceful and quite residential areas located among the forest.
To be honest, I did not see as many nationalities as I saw in San Fran, but that’s understandable considering the fact that Atlanta is not the place to find tons of gold :) I am not sure if this is a good thing, but I really enjoyed being among people from different parts of the world and would definitely like to live in such place.
Georgia Aquarium
I had heard a lot of nice things about the aquarium and I was very lucky to visit it. As I mentioned earlier, this is the biggest aquarium in the world and has thousands of species ranging from Beluga whales to saw-fish, and South American piranhas. The aquarium is divided into several parts. If you have the time and there aren’t many people, you can use the moving walkways while listening to relaxing music. You feel like in a fairy tale and you get the feeling it is too beautiful to be true. You are practically walking either under or on one side of the aquarium, and some tens of centimetres of solid glass are preventing millions of litres of water from killing you :)
Thousands of species can be noticed – sword-fish, saw-fish, hammer fish, sharks, devil-fish, piranhas, dragonflies, Crustacean, crocodiles, alligators, turtles, sea stars, pikes, everything, but personally speaking the most interesting one was the Beluga whale. Beluga whales live in the Arctic Ocean, in the coldest waters on Earth. They are white in color and distinguish themselves from other whales in that of every ton of body weight, 800 kilogrammes are fats. These whales are extremely beautiful and as you spend more time observing them, you will notice that the males perform something like a dance in the water – circling around in the water and slowly moving towards the surface to get some air.
There were also funny animals like these:
Some other beautiful views:
While the crocodiles were enjoying the heat in their aquariums:
The piranhas were staying so still in the water that they looked 2D. At first sight, they don’t look ugly and dangerous, but after awhile you can easily notice huge wounds on their bodies. I can’t imagine though what happens when they are fed. It probably looks something like a volcano of blood in there :)
If you would like to visit Georgia Aquarium and see more information, go to: http://www.georgiaaquarium.org
If you would like to see more pictures from the aquarium, click here.
So this was my journey in the States. I had wonderful two weeks, probably the best in my life, got to see so many new and exciting things, meet a lot of new people, visit great places, taste delicious food, and the most important thing – I found the place where I want to live in.