Introducing California
Buff, bronzed and beautiful, California is a sly seductress who tempts you with her bountiful riches. She’s a creative genius who bowls you over with ideas and trends poised to take the world by storm. She’s a bon vivant, passionately feasting on the smorgasbord of life, never taking things - or herself - too seriously. California is all that and then some to those who live here and to the millions of visitors eager to experience her mythology or, put more prosaically, to find out what all the fuss is about.
One thing’s for sure: the Golden State could not possibly have been more aptly named. The Gold Rush may have inspired this moniker, but treasures abound wherever you go. You’ll find them in the Unesco World Heritage Site of Yosemite National Park, and at the blissful beaches in San Diego. Uncover them in zigzagging canyons of Sierra Nevada tracing pathways once trod by native inhabitants, explorers and pioneers, and in the ghost towns of the rough-and-tumble frontier days. Treasures are served on the dinner tables of edgy restaurants in the great cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and awaiting in the shapely dunes, sculpted boulders and proud cacti of the vast desert, and the neon light therein, Las Vegas.
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Rafting at Kern River rapids, near Kernville.
- Witold Skrypczak
- Lonely Planet photographer
