Los Angeles

Go check the griffith observatory, santa monica pier, venice beach, etc.

Good streets to check out are Sunset bldv, holywood bldv and don't forget to check out Beverly hills.

I can also recommend you drive south through the 1, and check out Newport, Huntington and Laguna beach.

Depending on when you're here, i might be up for a beer.

• Definitely recommend the Griffith Observatory if you are a space geek, it's my favorite place in LA There's also the Space Shuttle downtown which I highly recommend (costs like 3 bux and you will never forget it).
• If you like art there are the Getty Villa and Getty Museums, both pretty cool (and free)
• Avoid Hollywood at all costs if you are short on time, it sucks. A lot. (Unless you like going to tourist traps and paying 30 bucks to see wax people)
• Venice is cool if you like drugs and mid-century architecture. Santa Monica is a nice if you are looking for touristy areas, there's some cool shops and vistas there. I've been to Malibu once and it was kinda boring but nevertheless it's still a cool beach if you are coming from Sweden

Some more stuff to do: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g3…California.html

Are you coming down to OC? If so we could get a mini-mapcore meeting and grab some beerz

They used to say when you were visiting Chicago in the 90s that you should have gone seeing Michael Jordan. I think it's valid for Kobe Bryant as well 8-D

HP's apartment is a good place for a tourist.

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HP's apartment is a good place for a tourist.

as long as you don't bring disease

Why bother going there, just play GTA V, it's the same thing...

j/k lul.

You'll be fine as long as you don't drive, my cousin lives there and with the stories I've heard about traffic there, it's a miracle she hasn't had an accident yet...

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Why bother going there, just play GTA V, it's the same thing...

j/k lul.

You'll be fine as long as you don't drive, my cousin lives there and with the stories I've heard about traffic there, it's a miracle she hasn't had an accident yet...

America is one of the nicest places to drive. Absolutely loved it. If you want bad traffic, go to Eastern Europe or Paris

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America is one of the nicest places to drive. Absolutely loved it. If you want bad traffic, go to Eastern Europe Belgium or Paris

Fixed

So far my (driving) experiences in Eastern Europe were pretty pleasant. As in a lot of countries (other than Belgium), people tend to abide by speed limits and stuff and generally don't completely suck at driving.

* Compton - Nice architecture, cool guys, exotic cars and friendly chicks.

* Watts - Nice sculpture and surrounding architecture. And they have a TRAIN TRACKS!

* South Central - You can see nice cars, meet friendly people, buy cool stuff

That's joke of course, I mean you can go there and you'll be fine but it's actually nothing special unless you like rap music and you wanna see where guys from NWA were running from da police

Fo realz:

* Santa Monica Pier

* 3rd Street Promenade in SM

* Rodeo Drive

* Hollywood - as Minos said but actually take a look at the Walk of Fame but don't buy any CD's, don't take pictures with people, just run through!

* Hollywood Sign

* Griffith Observatory

* Downtown - some buildings like Disney Concert Hall, Angels Flight elevator-o-train. It's rather boring if you don't like architecture and... concrete.

* Venice Beach

* La Brea Tar Pits and Dinosaur Museum

* Getty's Museum - it's free!

It's a trip for few days tho

You should get a car. Driving in LA is cool, way better than Poland, similar to Germany but 3 times more space/lanes but still there's no rush and speeding to much. ~70mph on highway (10 above limit) is standard but I seen maybe 2 or 4 guys speeding way faster. Aaand I'm doing about 150 miles each weekend, mostly from Santa Monica to Long Beach area, sometimes Downtown, Hollywood Hills...

Let me know when you'll be in LA, we'll get a beer. I hope to see rest of MapCore LA Team, right now Irvine is out of my range because this city is really HUGE and it takes long time to get there!

Thanks for reminding that I still have to check the La Brea Tar Pits properly! I was there once but had no idea you could visit the ongoing excavations at the place at the time

http://www.tarpits.org/visit/tours

Malibu.

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I'll be over on the 14th and will stay until the 21st! Hectic schedule though, but beer must be fitted in.

There's always time for beer!

Feb 14th? Cool! Isn't 16th a President's Day? That's a holiday, we can hang out!

Talked about it and we decided to do a LA city trip late November

How's the weather in November/December?