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D.C. is a deceptively small city, as the District population hides the fact that it is at the heart of one of the country's biggest, most densely populated metro areas—more than five million people live in the immediate D.C. area. As you might expect, there is a lot to see in the suburbs, including some of the capital's principal attractions, like Arlington Cemetery, and all three airports, for that matter. The suburbs also have a lot of hotels just across the District line near Metro stops, catering to travelers looking to evade the dreaded D.C. hotel tax.

Get in
Northern Virgina, or more obnoxiously NOVA, is best reached via Metro. Nearly everything of interest is just an easy walk away from a Metro station. Driving is a terrible headache, as Arlington and Alexandria have the worst traffic jams in the metro area, and the street layout is even more labyrinthine than that of the city itself. With the sole exception of the Arlington Cemetery stop on the Blue Line, all the main Arlington stations are on the Orange Line. If in Georgetown, the #38B bus leads right across the Key Bridge into Rosslyn, but it's not a bad walk if you'd rather skip the bus fare.

For Alexandria, the King St Metro stop on the Blue/Yellow Line is much more convenient than driving to Old Town. Annandale, on the other hand, would be a great foodie destination if it weren't so hard to reach. The only way out there is by car, where ample parking awaits. To get there, take the Little River Tnpk exit heading east from the Beltway, west from 395.

Arlington
Arlington once comprised most of D.C.'s Southwest, before retroceding into the state of Virginia. This is the one "suburb" that most visitors to the city do see, as it is home to National Airport, the Pentagon, and Arlington National Cemetery. It's also just a highly urbanized center, with lots of restaurants, bars, hotels, etc.

See
 * Just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., adjacent to the Pentagon, this national military cemetery includes John F. Kennedy's tomb and the house of General Robert E. Lee. Visitors can watch the changing of the guard ceremony in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Oct–March every hour, Apr–Sep every half hour.
 * One of D.C.'s most compelling war memorials, which commemorates the amphibious landing and victorious battle for the Pacific island of Iwo Jima during WWII, is just outside the city, on the northern border of Arlington Cemetery. If you walk around the memorial counter clockwise, you'll notice the optical illusion of the marines planting the flag. This spot also provides an excellent view of the July 4 fireworks. From either the Rosslyn or Arlington Cemetery Metro stations, it's about a fifteen minute walk.
 * Teddy Roosevelt Island and the memorial to the President therein are just south of the Key Bridge on the Mount Vernon Trail. See the overview article for detailed information.

Eat
 * The Chinese have fled the District, mostly to Virginia, and there are honestly no good dim sum places in the city itself. But this Rosslyn restaurant serves a perfectly fine dim sum, and it's just across the Key Bridge from Georgetown (in an office building).
 * Stylish, modern Indian plates with a specialty in lamb and egglplant. If you would like something different, try the Indian take on the Chesapeake crabcake!
 * Upscale Lebanese cuisine (mostly mezzes) in a trendy, casual dining room, and accompanied with a fine selection of Lebanese wines.
 * For a really good bowl of Vietnamese pho, you need to head out to the suburbs where the Vietnamese actually live. Happily, one of the closest pho joints to the city is also one of the best—several local food critics have declared it the best.
 * Based in Treviso, Italy, this small but international chain serves great, vaguely Neopolitan style pizzas. Later at night it morphs into an attractive lounge playing house and trance. Happy hour (M-F 4:30PM-8PM) sees free bar snacks and $4 sangria.
 * For a great Maryland style crab feast by D.C. you should go to... Virginia! Paper on the tables, buckets full of crabs, pitchers of beer, and an elbow-deep mess of Old Bay seasoning.
 * This place is best summed up by one of its signature burgers: named the Fat Joe, which adds seared foie gras with a balsamic glaze, white truffle oil, crispy shallots, and vine-ripened tomato. Yes, the burger with truffle oil and foie gras is called a Fat Joe. Ray's Hell Burger has an incredible tunnel vision-focus on burger quality to the exclusion of anything else—the seating area is at best an overcrowded, functional fast-food restaurant. But the burgers are worth whatever journey it takes to get here.
 * A great Moroccan restaurant with lovely ambiance (precisely the sort you'd want of a Moroccan restaurant), great service, and one mean Chicken Bastilla, a sweet pastry filled with savory, spiced chicken.

Drink
 * A weird little 60s-looking, orange-colored pool hall and bar just across the Key Bridge. If the small bar and pool tables are crowded, they also have shuffleboard, darts, and Wii!
 * Northern Virginia's sole hipster refuge has a fun jukebox, a fantastic draft beer selection, and perhaps the most laid back atmosphere on the Wilson Blvd corridor (it predates the Clarendon yuppie boom). Live indie rock Su-M.
 * A Latin lounge with salsa dancing, live music Th-Sa, hookahs, and "Latin tapas."
 * It's arguably a dive bar, but more importantly one of the best live music venues in the area for roots-rock and country acts.
 * This is a true, old-school, neighborhood bar that has not been overrun with the twenty-somethings, with really cheap beer—$2 Buds and Miller Lites any time of the week.
 * There are a ton of fake Irish pubs in Arlington. This one's especially fake (it's way too well lit), but it's a good time for anyone looking for a nice sports bar not overrun with immature young'uns.

Sleep
 * <sleep name="Best Western Rosslyn/Iwo Jima" alt="" address="1501 Arlington Blvd" directions="" phone="+1 703 524-5000" url="http://iwojimarosslynhotel.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="$100-190" lat="" long="">For once, a hotel with an attraction in the name isn't lying to you—it really is just about a block from the Iwo Jima Memorial. That does place it a little out of the way, but it's not a long walk to the Rosslyn station. Newly-renovated, heated indoor pool, free WiFi, meeting rooms.
 * <sleep name="Clarion Collection Arlington Court" alt="" address="1200 N Courthouse Rd" directions="" phone="+1 703 524-4000" email="" fax="" url="http://clarionhotel.com/hotel-arlington-virginia-VA058" checkin="" checkout="" price="$130-300">A high-end Clarion a couple blocks south of the Courthouse Metro, with free WiFi, free breakfast buffet, and 24 hour fitness center. Offers a free one-mile shuttle—shame that anything interesting that isn't within easy walking distance would be at least two miles away...
 * <sleep name="Hilton Garden Inn" alt="" address="1333 North Courthouse Rd" directions="" phone="+1 703 528-4444" url="http://arlingtoncourthouse.stayhgi.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="$120-260" lat="" long="">Notably just one block from the Courthouse Metro stop and the surrounding restaurants and nightlife.
 * <sleep name="Residence Inn Rosslyn" alt="" address="1651 N Oak St" directions="" phone="+1 703 812-8400" email="" fax="" url="http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/WASRR" checkin="" checkout="" price="$110-270">An all-suite hotel with free WiFi, free hot breakfast, free evening buffets M-W, and a dessert buffet Th.

Alexandria
Old Town Alexandria rivals Georgetown for sheer historical charm. Alexandria historically was Georgetown's rival port on the Potomac, vying for supremacy in the lucrative Mid-Atlantic trade, particularly tobacco and slaves. Alexandria's fortunes started to decline during the early nineteenth century, especially following the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal north of the Potomac, which benefited only Georgetown. Amid continuing complaints that the federal government was neglecting investment in Alexandria, and over sharp fears that the District would ban the slave trade, Alexandria led the retrocession of the southern portion of the District (what is now Arlington County and the City of Alexandria) into Virginia.

Alexandria is one of the nicest places in the Metro Area for a stroll, a visit to the Torpedo Factory, and a night of fine dining and drinks. Since it's just off the Metro Yellow Line, it's an easy and rewarding little trip out from the city.

See
 * <see name="George Washington Masonic Memorial" alt="" address="101 Callahan Dr" directions="" phone="+1 703 683-2007" email="" fax="" url="http://gwmemorial.org/" hours="1 Apr–30 Sep: 9AM-4PM daily; 1 Oct–31 March 10AM-4PM; guided tours: 10AM,11:30AM,1:30PM,3PM" price="Free">Designed and built by Freemasons in the 1930's, this monument to George Washington was made to resemble the Lighthouse at Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Free tours are available daily except on major holidays. The tour takes visitors through a unique series of rooms each designed to illustrate some element of Freemasonry and presents visitors with artifacts from the group's past.  At the end, visitors are treated to an outstanding view of Washington D.C. and Old Town Alexandria.
 * <see name="Torpedo Factory Art Center" alt="" address="105 North Union St" directions="" phone="+1 703 838-4565" email="" fax="" url="http://torpedofactory.org" hours="10AM-5PM daily; additionally 6PM-9PM every second Tu" price="Free">A former World War I munitions depot that once housed the Nazi war archives after World War II, the Torpedo Factory has been turned into an artist studio/learning center for local artists.

Eat
 * <eat name="Bastille" alt="" address="1201 N Royal St" directions="" phone="+1 703 519-3776" email="" fax="" url="http://bastillerestaurant.com/" hours="Lunch: Tu-F 11:30AM-2PM, Sa noon-2:30PM; brunch: Su 11:30AM-2:30PM; dinner: Tu-Th 6PM-9:30PM, F-Sa 6PM-10PM, Su 5PM-8PM" price="Tasting menu: $55/five course, $45/four course, $35/three course; a la carte also available">Country-style French cuisine with all organic, local ingredients, served in a romantic atmosphere are good reasons to wander a little north of Old Town. The cassoulet and the pastries are some of the kitchen's particular specialties.
 * <eat name="Gadsby's Tavern" alt="" address="138 N Royal St" directions="" phone="+1 703 548-1288" email="" fax="" url="http://gadsbystavernrestaurant.com" hours="M-Sa 11:30AM-3PM, 5:30PM-10PM, Su 11AM-3PM, 5:30PM-10PM" price="$26-50 (dinner)">A 325 year old dining spot, and a favorite of the first five U.S. Presidents! Thomas Jefferson celebrated his 1800 election victory and George Washington celebrated several birthdays in the upstairs ballroom. The museum, +1 703 838-4242, is in the old 1785 portion of the tavern and has access to the historic ballroom. Tour times vary but usually end at 4PM in the winter and 5PM in the summer. The restaurant occupies the bottom floor of the relatively new 1792 section and provides an impressively historic setting with food styles influenced by the original tavern. The food is just okay, but is not really why you come here.
 * <eat name="The Majestic" alt="" address="911 King St" directions="" phone="+1 703 837-9117" email="" fax="" url="http://majesticcafe.com" hours="Lunch: M-Sa 5:30PM-2:30PM; dinner: M-Th 5:30PM-10PM, F-Sa 5:30PM-10:30PM; Su 1PM-9PM" price="$25-45">American food done really, really well. Everything except the butter is made here, including the outstanding bacon and ham.  Casual family atmosphere. The prices are comparable to other places in the area, but the quality is heads and shoulders above.
 * <eat name="Restaurant Eve" alt="" address="110 S Pitt St" directions="" phone="+1 703 706-0450" email="" fax="" url="http://restauranteve.com" hours="M-Th 11:30AM-11:30PM, F 11:30AM-12:30AM, Sa 5:30PM-12:30AM" price="Main restaurant: $110/five course, $150/nine course; bistro: $25-40">This one of the D.C. area's great restaurants, a four-star operation for special occasions, comparable to Citronelle in Georgetown. Also has a separate bistro section and bar, which also serves outstanding food for a much lower price.
 * <eat name="Vermilion" alt="" address="1120 King St" directions="" phone="+1 703 684-9669" email="" fax="" url="http://vermilionrestaurant.com/" hours="Lunch: M-F 11:30AM-3PM; brunch: Sa-Su 11AM-2:30PM; dinner: Su-Th 5:30PM-10PM, F-Sa 5:30PM-11PM" price="$25-45">Run by a master chef, Vermillion is often mentioned in the same breath as Eve when describing Alexandria's most prestigious cooking. It's far less expensive, though, so it's possible for the masses to treat themselves to Anthony Chittum's seasonal, local cuisine, nearly all of it prepared in-house.
 * <eat name="The Wharf" alt="" address="119 King St" directions="" phone="+1 703 836-2834" email="" fax="" url="http://wharfrestaurant.com/" hours="Lunch: M-Sa 11AM-4PM, Su-11AM-3PM; dinner: M-Th 4PM-10:30PM, F-Sa 4PM-11PM, Su 3PM-10PM" price="$17-40">The seafood here really isn't so noteworthy as that of its competitors above, but the beautiful, old-timey Alexandria waterfront ambiance most certainly is. And it has rich desserts to die for (or from).

Drink
 * <drink name="Buzz Bakery & Coffee" alt="" address="901 Slaters Ln" directions="" phone="+1 703 600-2899" email="" fax="" url="http://buzzonslaters.com/" hours="6AM-midnight daily" price="">The best reason to come may be the long hours when you can sip and surf the free WiFi. The close second runner up, though, are the treats—the brioche breakfast sandwich (think an omelet between rich brioche bread) is the local favorite, but the panini and desserts are also worth ordering. Tired travelers who need to spend some good time online updating Wikivoyage should brave the long walk and just check in here for the full day.
 * <drink name="Murphy's Grand Irish Pub" alt="" address="713 King St" directions="" phone="+1 703 548-1717" email="" fax="" url="http://murphyspub.com/" hours="Su-Th 11AM-1AM, F-Sa 11AM-2AM" price="">One of the happiest fake Irish pubs around, with great Irish beers on tap, a big fireplace, surprisingly good Irish/bar food for the very low prices, and high-quality live Irish music downstairs most nights of the week, which the crowd gets very into. Su 10AM-3PM is a great time to stop by, when the pub switches gear to a restaurant for the champagne brunch (great if you like an Irish breakfast).
 * <drink name="PX Lounge" alt="Ring the buzzer under the blue lamp." address="728 King St" directions="" phone="+1 703 299-8384" email="" fax="" url="http://restauranteve.com/eamonns/PX/px_home.html" hours="W-Th 7:30PM-1AM, F-Sa 7:30PM-2AM" price="">The classiest of the swankiest bar/lounges in the D.C. area, in a beautiful historic building, with mixed drinks that are widely considered the D.C. area's best, and easily some of the best you'll find in the nation. The gin and tonic is a standout, despite seemingly being a very boring choice, as it is made to perfection with house-made tonic. If the various wild rides on the menu (e.g., tobacco-infused bourbon with lemon and honey syrup) don't catch your fancy, the expert bartender will craft you any cocktail you can dream of. The bar is extremely small and intimate, and both reservations (days in advance for F-Sa) are a must, as is classy attire—a jacket is not a bad idea.
 * <eat name="Rustico" alt="" address="827 Slater Ln" directions="" phone="+1 703 224-5051" email="" fax="" url="http://rusticorestaurant.com/" hours="M 4PM-10PM, Tu-Th,Su 11:30AM-10PM, F-Sa 11:30AM-11PM" price="">Despite billing itself as a restaurant, this is a much better place for drinks (the food is overpriced). For drinks however, you'll find an enormous list of craft beers, and a very beer-knowledgeable staff.
 * <drink name="Union Street Public House" alt="" address="121 S Union Dr" directions="" phone="+1 703 548-1785" email="" fax="" url="http://unionstreetpublichouse.com/" hours="M-Th 11:30AM-10:30PM, F-Sa 11:30AM-11:30PM, Su 11AM-10:30PM" price="">The Union St Pub is an Old Town institution, in no small part to its location and for the roomy, comfy interior where you'll be able to sit even on a crowded Old Town weekend night, and where you'll find a good selection of local Virginia craft beers.

Sleep

 * <sleep name="Hilton Alexandria" alt="" address="1767 King St" directions="" phone="+1 703 837-0440" email="" fax="" url="http://hiltonalexandria.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="$170-420">Hiltons are always nice, if big and impersonal, and this one has a fine location just west of Old Town, and next to the Metro stop for a very easy commute into the city.
 * <sleep name="Morrison House" alt="" address="116 S Alfred St" directions="" phone="+1 703 838-8000" email="" fax="" url="http://morrisonhouse.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="$150-420">It's hard to compete with this B&B. Staying right off King St in the heart of Old Town, in a beautiful, stately, chandelier filled mansion in the colonial style. Has tuxedo-clad butlers, a classy piano bar, and a restaurant competitive with the best in the area. Consider yourself an expert traveler if you stay here on a D.C. visit.

Annandale
This neighborhood is hard to reach, but some of the best Korean food outside the motherland is served up in Koreatown's many restaurants. It's also a late late night hotspot, with Korean BBQ served 'round the clock every day.

 * <eat name="A&J Restaurant" alt="" address="4316 Markham St" directions="" phone="+1 703 813-8181" email="" fax="" url="" hours="M-F 11:30AM-9PM, Sa-Su 10AM-9PM" price="$4-10/meal">You have to travel far and long to find good dim sum in the D.C. area, but you've found it once you get to this Chinese restaurant. It's small, a little dingy, but it has precisely the right dim sum to cure a good bout of expat homesickness, or simply to delight the tastebuds of a serious foodie.
 * <eat name="Honey Pig Gooldaegee" alt="" address="7220 Columbia Pike" directions="" phone="+1 703 256-5229" email="" fax="" url="http://welcome.bz/serv/red/home.asp?blobid=89" hours="24 hours daily" price="$10-30">Is there better Korean BBQ in the Western Hemisphere? That's debatable, but what not is that this places knows how to prepare meat. Sirloin beef, sauce duck, pork belly of several varieties—the list goes on. Meat is the showstopper here, but if that's not your thing, you'll find excellent vegetarian entrees (although be forewarned that most are fiery!). It's not a relaxing place late at night, though, with blaring Korean hip hop, and plenty of young Korean men filling the big room with tobacco smoke.
 * <eat name="Oegadgib" alt="pronounced way-gahd-jeep" address="7331 Little River Trpk" directions="" phone="+1 703 941-3400" email="" fax="" url="http://menusarang.com/xe/1313" hours="M-Sa 10:30AM-2AM, Su 11AM-midnight" price="$17-35; all-you-can-eat barbecue: $17/person">It's hard to go wrong here, if you can find the place. It's poorly signed and hidden behind some Salvadoran carnicería in what looks like a bland office building across a parking lot. But the food is incredible, and as a plus, it's one of the most comfy spaces in Annandale. The cheapest option is to bring friends and do the all-you-can-eat barbecue, where enormous quantities of garlicy bulgogi and kalbi are grilled on your table, for you to then dip in hot sauce, and generally pig out. The a la carte menu is more expensive, but even more rewarding. A local favorite (among the Koreans, anyway) is the spicy skate stew.
 * <eat name="Yechon" alt="" address="4121 Hummer Rd" directions="" phone="+1 703 914-4646" email="" fax="" url="http://yechonrestaurant.com/" hours="24 hours daily" price="$10-30">Yechon is the Annandale restaurant. It's big and always bustling. Other restaurants here will beat it on specific dishes, but this is the gold standard, where just about everything is good, and where non-Koreans will find the service particularly accessible. In addition to its great a la carte and all-you-can-eat menus, it's worth noting that Yechon rises above the pack with its banchan—some ten–fifteen small, free (but as in all Annandale restaurants, still all-you-can-eat) appetizers with your meal.

Get in
Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Wheaton are extremely easy to visit by the Metro Red Line. Each of their metro stations is located right by the downtown, and you'll be able to reach everything listed below in less than a ten-minute walk.

Kensington is harder to get to via public transport, and is better visited with a car. The Mormon Temple is tricky to find (although it is easy to see!). Take Beach Dr east from Connecticut (just north of the Connecticut Ave Beltway exit), then turn left on Stonybrook Dr. For the carless, hop on RideOn Bus 5 from the Silver Spring metro stop, which will take you straight to Antique Row and Continental's, and then on to the Mormon Temple (get off at Stonybrook Dr and walk about ten minutes south).

Three main roads head north into these Maryland suburbs. From east to west: Georgia, Connecticut, and Wisconsin Ave. Georgia runs north through Silver Spring and then Wheaton, Connecticut runs through Kensington, and Wisconsin runs through Bethesda. Traveling east-west between the suburbs is harder. University Blvd (north on Connecticut from Kensington) connects Kensington to Wheaton, but otherwise you'll be best off taking the Beltway (I-495), which has dedicated exits for each neighborhood (take the Connecticut Ave southbound exit, then turn west on the East West Hwy for Bethesda).

Bethesda
Bethesda is suburban destination number one in Maryland for wining and dining, a much more family friendly part of town than anywhere in D.C., and it's right on the Metro's Red Line, largely along and near Wisconsin Ave.

Eat
 * <eat name="Bethesda Crab House" alt="" address="4958 Bethesda Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 652-3382" email="" fax="" url="http://bethesdabigcrabs.com/" hours="9AM-11PM daily" price="$20-40; all-you-can-eat crab feast: $35/person">What better reason to cross the District line into Maryland than a Maryland crab feast! This is not a nice restaurant, it is a crab shack that somehow made its way into Bethesda, with the brown paper on the table, buckets of crabs, tons of Old Bay seasoning, and a lot of messy patrons.
 * <eat name="Jaleo" address="7271 Woodmont Ave" phone="+1 301 913-0003" email="" fax="" hours="Su-Th 11:30AM-10PM, F-Sa 11:30AM-midnight" price="$20-40" url="http://jaleo.com/">José Andrés' excursion to Bethesda brings the same excellent modern takes on Spanish tapas and the same excellent sherry and port lists. While extremely popular, this location is big enough where you can get a table without reservations.
 * <eat name="Levante's" alt="" address="7262 Woodmont Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 657-2441" email="" fax="" url="http://levantes.com/" hours="Su-Th 11:30AM-10:30PM, F-Sa 11:30AM-11:30PM" price="$10-25">Great Lebanese cuisine in a restaurant that is always packed like sardines. Reservations are a must.
 * <eat name="Passage to India" alt="" address="4931 Cordell Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 656-3373" email="" fax="" url="http://passagetoindia.info/" hours="11:30AM-2:30PM, 5:30PM-10PM daily" price="$16-30">The often fiery cuisine here is some of the best Indian food you'll find anywhere in the metro area, and it's also attractive, rather quiet, and has reliably excellent service. If you are up for a challenge, try to finish one of their vindaloos without asking them to dull down the spice level.
 * <eat name="Raku" address="7240 Woodmont Ave" phone="+1 202 718-8680" email="" fax="" hours="Lunch: M-F 11:30AM-2:30PM, Sa-Su noon-3PM; dinner: Su-Th 5PM-10PM, F-Sa 5PM-10:30PM" price="$11-35" url="http://rakuasiandining.com/">Arguably the best Asian food in Bethesda. It's kid-friendly and rather noisy, but the food is made with incredibly fresh, high quality ingredients, and will not likely disappoint. Very popular so make a reservation or get there early.
 * <eat name="South Street Steaks" alt="" address="4856 Cordell Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 215-7972" email="" fax="" url="http://southstreetsteaks.com" hours="Su-Th 11AM-9PM, F-Sa 11AM-3AM" price="$7-16">Philly cheesesteaks. No, really: authentic Philly cheesesteaks on Amoroso rolls, right here at a sit-down eatery in Bethesda, and they taste like you got them right out of Geno's window in the City of Brotherly Love. If you're not from Philadelphia, you can look like you are in the know by ordering a "nine (or twelve) inch whiz wit." Don't worry, they'll understand that, you won't look silly, and you'll get your cheesesteak with the traditional cheese whiz and grilled onions. In addition to legit Philly cheesesteaks and late hours, this eatery draws customers with a bunch of specialty subs, like the missteak, a monstruous sub stuffed with 1 lb steak, 8 pieces bacon, pepperoni, fries, and three types of cheese (feeds up to four).
 * <eat name="Tastee Diner" address="7731 Woodmont Ave" phone="+1 301 652-3970" email="" fax="" hours="24 hours daily" price="$3-11" url="http://tasteediner.com/">Looking for the true American diner experience with greasy spoons and waitresses with too much eye shadow? How about cheap eats any time of day or night? Look no further than the tried-and-true Tastee Diner to serve your needs. Indeed, this might be the most dineresque diner in the D.C. area.
 * <eat name="Vace's Italian Deli" alt="" address="4705 Miller Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 654-6367" email="" fax="" url="http://vaceitaliandeli.com/" hours="M-Tu,Sa 9AM-8PM, W-F 9AM-9PM, Su 10AM-4PM" price="$8-12">The Bethesda Vace's, like the one in the city, serves the best, most authentic New York style pizza you'll find anywhere this far south. Takeout only.

Drink
 * <drink name="Black's Bar & Grill" alt="" address="7750 Woodmont Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 652-6278" email="" fax="" url="" hours="M-Th 11:30AM-midnight, F 11:30AM-1AM, Sa noon-1AM, Su noon-10PM" price="">This is one of Bethesda's trendiest spaces, and it's a very nice place for a few drinks with some oysters on the half shell, particularly during happy hour (M-F 4PM-7PM), when there are good deals to be had on both the oysters and the drinks. For wine lovers, either Black's or nearby Grapeseed Bistro & Wine Bar (4865 Cordell Ave ) has the best wine list in Bethesda. It can get very crowded around meal times—make reservations.
 * <drink name="Ri Ra Irish Pub" alt="" address="4931 Elm St" directions="" phone="+1 301 657-1122" email="" fax="" url="http://rira.com/" hours="" price="">It's a fake Irish pub national chain, but it's nonetheless a great place for a properly poured pint of Guiness, as well as some great oysters on the half shell. The interior is beautiful, and packed with the khaki trousered Bethesda crowd.
 * <drink name="Rock Bottom Brewery" alt="" address="7900 Norfolk Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 652-1311" email="" fax="" url="http://rockbottom.com/" hours="Su-Th 11AM-1AM, F-Sa 11AM-2AM" price="">The food is fine, but this small but national chain is best visited for the excellent beers on tap, which can be ordered in sampling glasses. DJs show up F-Sa nights, but this isn't really the sort of place for that. Great people watching from the outdoor seating in good weather.

Sleep
 * <sleep name="Hyatt Regency Bethesda" alt="" address="One Bethesda Metro Center (7400 Wisconsin Ave)" directions="" phone="+1 301 657-1234" url="http://Bethesda.Hyatt.com" checkin="" checkout="" price="$140-260" lat="" long="">A large Hyatt located right on top of the Bethesda Metro station.
 * <sleep name="Residence Inn Bethesda" alt="" address="7335 Wisconsin Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 718-0200" url="http://marriott.com/WASBR " checkin="" checkout="" price="$270-360" lat="" long="">Located near the Naval Medical Center, NIH, FDA and NRC. One block from the Bethesda metro station.

Silver Spring
Silver Spring is also easy to reach, as it is just across the District border on Georgia Ave, with a Metro Red Line stop right in the center of things. It's a good place to hang out, but the main reason to come is for a movie at the AFI.

Do
 * <see name="AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center" alt="" address="8633 Colesville Rd" directions="" phone="+1 301 495-6700" email="" fax="" url="http://afi.com/silver/new" hours="" price="">A 1938 theater, now restored and home to the American Film Institute and Shopping Center. It shows independent films and documentaries which, refreshingly, are not the exact same independent films being shown at other "indie" theaters around D.C. Highly Recommended.

Eat
 * <eat name="Ceviche" alt="" address="921-J Ellsworth Dr" directions="" phone="+1 301 608-0081" email="" fax="" url="http://latinconcepts.com/ceviche" hours="Restaurant: Su-Th 4PM-10PM, F-Sa 4PM-midnight; lounge usually open a couple hours past kitchen close" price="$6-22">It's pricey and not terribly filling, but the ceviche (raw fish "cooked" in lime juice) at its namesake Peruvian restaurant is excellent. As are the pisco sours. Ceviche really stands out, though, for being a very stylish, unique lounge/restaurant in an area dominated by bland could-be-anywhere chain restaurants.
 * <eat name="Jackie's Restaurant" alt="" address="8081 Georgia Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 565-9700" email="" fax="" url="http://jackiesrestaurant.com" hours="Tu-Th 5:30PM-9:30PM, F-Sa 5:30PM-10:30PM, Su 11:30AM-2:30PM,5:30PM-9PM" price="$28-40">Four star cuisine in an unlikely stretch of Silver Spring filled with auto part shops. Actually, the building itself used to be an auto parts shop. The owners have more than made the most of the location, aiming for a trendy and very fun take on the industrial-loft look. The contemporary American cuisine on offer is faultless, most famous for its "mini Elvis burgers" appetizer, but with a range of great seafood, meats, and salads on its seasonal menu.
 * <eat name="Mandalay" alt="" address="930 Bonifant St" directions="" phone="+1 301 585-0500" email="" fax="" hours="M-Th 11:30AM-10PM, F-Sa 11:30AM-10:30PM, Su noon-10PM, closed 3PM-5PM daily" price="$12-20" url="http://mandalayrestaurantcafe.com/">This restaurant has pretty bland, suburban ambiance, but it has the best Burmese food in the D.C. area. If you haven't tried Burmese food, it is time to do so—Myanmar is sandwiched between three great world cuisines (Indian, Chinese, Thai) and the food reflects this.
 * <eat name="The Roger Miller Restaurant" alt="" address="941 Bonifant St" directions="" phone="+1 301 650-2495" url="" hours="Su-Th noon-11PM, F-Sa" price="$8-17" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">Seated inside this Cameroonian restaurant, you may forget what country you are in as it has the authentic character of a West African roadside bar; the outside seating is lovely in good weather. The wait staff is relaxed and friendly and will never rush you while you enjoy your food and conversation. Roger Miller is patronized mostly by West Africans, but they are extremely friendly and accommodating to the uninitiated.

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 * <drink name="Piratz Tavern" alt="" address="8402 Georgia Avenue" directions="" phone="+1 301 588-9001" url="http://piratztavern.com/" hours="M-Th 11:30AM-1AM, F 11:30AM-2AM, Sa 12:30PM-2AM, Su 5PM-midnight" price="Entrées: $9-30, glass of grog: $6" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">This place is a strange gem. The staff actually do appear to be pirates—one actually lost an eye in a sword fight—and the eccentric atmosphere seems to bring out the patrons' inner pirates as well. The Pirate cuisine on offer is surprisingly excellent, a mix of Caribbean, Portuguese, and Brazilian, and attracts families and couples in addition to the bar's younger clientèle. If you like a drink, don't pass up the extremely stiff rum-based grog, which is quite tasty and very reasonably priced. Unlike most area bars, you will never have to lose your voice shouting above loud music. Ask for a seat outside in the back.
 * <drink name="Quarry House Tavern" alt="" address="8401 Georgia Ave" directions="below Bombay Gaylord" phone="+1 301 587-8350" email="" fax="" url="http://quarryhousetavern.com/" hours="Su-Th 5PM-midnight, F-Sa 5PM-2AM" price="">This bar has been a neighborhood staple for over 70 years. At first glance it's just a friendly looking dive bar, but upon further inspection it reveals itself as something of a gastropub—the food is heads and shoulders above usual bar fare (fried pickles are a must), and they have a great, long list of Belgian beers!

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 * <sleep name="Courtyard by Marriott" alt="" address="8506 Fenton St" directions="" phone="+1 301 589-4899" email="" fax="+1 301 589-4898" url="http://marriott.com/WASSV" checkin="" checkout="" price="$200-280">Free WiFi, gym, restaurant, lounge, coffee bar in lobby. Three blocks to Metro, two miles to D.C. border.
 * <sleep name="Crowne Plaza" alt="" address="8777 Georgia Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 589-0800" email="" fax="" url="http://cpdcsilverspring.com/" checkin="" checkout="" price="$110-170">As ordinary as they come, but you can get great deals here. Free WiFi, outdoor pool, gym.

Kensington
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The Mormon Temple is by far and away Kensington's most significant attraction. Most only see it from the Beltway, where it rises high above the treeline, looking similar enough to the Emerald Palace in the Wizard of Oz to inspire a local graffiti artist to paint "Surrender Dorothy" on the overpass on the Outer Loop of the Beltway. (The temple is actually white, though.) It's not possible to enter the Mormon Temple itself if you are not Mormon, but the grounds are pretty, and there is a Visitor Center:

 * <see name="LDS Temple Visitor Center" alt="" address="9900 Stoneybrook Dr" directions="" phone=+1 301 587-0144" email="" fax="" url="http://lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1836-1-1-1,00.html" hours="10AM-9PM daily" price="Free">Since you can't go in the temple, there's a need for a nice visitor center, and they've done a nice job with it. It hosts regular events (see website for calendar) and movie screenings throughout the day every day of the year, in addition to a permanent multimedia display. The building itself and the grounds surrounding it are immaculate and pretty.

'Tis the season to visit the Mormon Temple come Christmas time. The light display is truly spectacular, especially given that the grounds and temple are impressive enough to merit a visit without the display. The light display runs throughout Advent, and is absolutely worth seeking out from D.C. if you are in the area this time of the year. In addition to the light display, the Visitor Center shows its best face, with more than a dozen large, decorated Christmas trees, international nativity scenes, and a live outdoor nativity scene. It's a great place for all ages, and is certain to stir a little of the Christmas spirit.

Buy The Old Town of Kensington is a major shopping destination in the D.C. area for antiques, with a large cluster of antique shops along Antique Row. The strip is charming and full of interesting browsing opportunities, from furniture to bric-a-brac to books. To get there, take a right off of Connecticut Ave (coming from D.C.) after the Knowles Ave intersection onto East Howard Ave. On street parking, as well as shop parking is usually no problem.

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 * <eat name="Continental Pizza" alt="" address="10532 Connecticut Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 949-9797" email="" fax="" url="" hours="M-Sa 10AM-8:30PM" price="$4-10">Kensington likely has the worst dining scene of any D.C. suburb, but it does have one gem. Continental's is a hole in the wall, with a unique-style, delicious pizza on the cheap (a large with toppings costs just $8). People drive from way out of town to get it. The steak and cheese sub is likely the best in the metropolitan area, and the fries are thick and smothered with Maryland's favorite spice, Old Bay. If you're in Kensington, eat here. Even if you don't like pizza!

Wheaton
Very few visitors know of Wheaton, much less make it out here, but it's easy to reach on the Metro Red Line (north of Silver Spring), and has D.C.'s best ethnic dining scene, period, amidst what is probably the most diverse neighborhood for 100 miles in any direction. The Washington City Paper's 2009 critics' choice for best Thai in the whole metro area went to both Nava and Ruan. And it has the legendary Peruvian pollo a la brasa joint: El Pollo Rico. Coming out of the Metro station, admire that escalator—it's the longest in the Western Hemisphere, taking over four minutes to ascend!

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 * <eat name="El Pollo Rico" alt="" address="2517 University Blvd" directions="" phone="+1 301 942-4419" email="" fax="" url="http://ilovethischicken.com/" hours="10:30AM-10PM daily" price="Chicken: $5.30-14.20">Universally acclaimed in local, national, and international food circles is Wheaton's El Pollo Rico, serving unbeatable pollo a la brasa—Peruvian chicken roasted over smoky wood charcoals to just the perfect point at which a slight crisp falls upon the skin, over succulent, moist white and dark meat, and the spice fiesta of salt 'n pepper, huacatay, aji, cumin, achiote, garlic, and lemon magically penetrates the meat straight into the bone. EPR for a long time ran out of a can't-see-your-hand smoky little take-out only shack, but that burned down, and it's now in a cheery little eatery with tables for the few who aren't taking the bird home to the family. Lines are long, but move fast. Placing your order is simple: yell whole, half, or quarter, and then enjoy the sound of the lady's meat cleaver hitting the counter through the meat.
 * <eat name="Full Key Restaurant" alt="" address="2227 University Blvd" directions="" phone="+1 301-8388" email="" fax="" url="" hours="11AM-2AM daily" price="$3.50-20">So this is where the Chinese fled to from the now Disneyfied Chinatown downtown! It's an unassuming but pleasant little eatery, offering Hong Kong cuisine into the wee hours of the night—wonderful noodle soups, soup dumplings, congee, and barbecued meats—the roast duck tends to run out, but you can call ahead to reserve a portion for a late night visit.
 * <eat name="Irene's Pupusería III" alt="" address="11300 Georgia Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 933-2118" url="" hours="Su-Th 11AM-midnight, F-Sa 11AM-2AM" price="$4-20" lat="" long="">Irene is building a pupusería empire, and any of the four locations are good bets for excellent pupusas. But number three outshines the other hole-in-the-walls in terms of ambiance by a wide margin—it's a nice place to take the family for a meal, with walls of big comfy diner-style booths. This restaurant is the local hub for the Honduran community, so there are a bunch of dishes on the menu, like the baliadas (a sort of Honduran burrito) that you won't find at the other Salvadoran restaurants. Beyond the great pupusas and baliadas, the terribly unhealthy fried plantains with creme are incredible, as are the atoles, a creamy hot chocolate-style dessert drink (non alcoholic, and without chocolate) made from corn meal with all the spices you'd expect of a pumpkin pie.
 * <eat name="Moby Dick" alt="" address="11220 Triangle Ln" directions="" phone="+1 301 949-3910" email="" fax="" url="" hours="M-Th 11:30AM-9:30PM, F-Sa 11:30AM-10PM" price="$7-15">Odd name for a Korean-run Japanese place. Korean-run Japanese restaurants are usually a lesson in cross-cultural misunderstanding, but this is an exception, run by an eminently competent and seasoned preparer of Japanese cuisine. Three reasons to come: great tempura, good sushi, and impressively low prices.
 * <eat name="Nava Thai" alt="" address="11301 Fern St" directions="" phone="+1 240 430-0495" email="" fax="" url="http://navathai.food.officelive.com/" hours="Su-Th 11:30AM-10PM, F-Sa 11:30AM-10:30PM" price="$6-20">Served in a space that is comically and unmistakably a former cheesy Tex-Mex restaurant, Nava Thai's food is incredible, with a menu full of items Thai food lovers of the Western variety will not recognize. Dishes range from those ablaze with chilis, garlic, and curries, to those with a more subtle cilantro or perhaps pig's blood. The sweet and sour squid is famous, but if you want to play it safer, the husband and wife team here are experts with the noodle dishes, and you'd have trouble finding a better pad thai anywhere, except Ruan, of course.
 * <eat name="Paul Kee Restaurant" alt="" address="11305 Georgia Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 933-6886" email="" fax="" url="" hours="Su-Th 11AM-1AM, F-Sa 11AM-2AM" price="$5-25">Delicious, authentic Cantonese food served to a mostly Cantonese clientele. The service and ambiance are also authentically Cantonese, which is a bad thing, but they are also hallmarks of a place that serves great food at low prices. The roast and crispy meat dishes tend to be especially good bets.
 * <eat name="Ruan Thai" alt="" address="11407 Amherst Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 942-0075" url="http://ruanthaiwheaton.com/" hours="M-Sa 11:30AM-10PM, Su 4PM-10PM" price="$6-18" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">Trying to decide whether to eat at Nava or Ruan is best decided by a coin flip—they are both fantastic, small, and as authentic as they come. Aside from walking distance, Ruan is a little divier and marginally less expensive, which is either a plus or minus depending on your outlook. It also serves an incredible smoked eggplant salad, a fiery crispy whole red snapper, and killer larb.
 * <eat name="Sergio's Place" alt="" address="11324 Fern St" directions="" phone="+1 301 962-7066" url="http://lasguanacas.com/sergios.htm" hours="7AM–whenever the Salvadoreños have their final beer at night, daily" price="$5-15" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">The pupusas here are magnificent, with perhaps the best Salvadoran style tortillas you'll find outside of the motherland. And they come in an unusual range of stuffings like chicken, carrots, crab meat, jalapeños, etc.—you can even get one made with a rice tortilla! Otherwise, there are a number of Salvadoran soups, Guatemalan dishes, and great Cuban sandwiches to keep the adventurous palate engaged. Live (and very loud) entertainment F-Su nights.

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 * <drink name="Royal Mile Pub" alt="" address="2407 Price Ave" directions="" phone="+1 301 946-4511" url="http://royalmilepub.com/" hours="M-Th 3:30PM-1AM, F-Sa 10:30AM-2AM, Su 10:30AM-1AM" price="Food: $15-30" lat="" long="">A fixture of Wheaton for the past twenty years, this is an authentic Scottish pub. It's authentic not for the imitation decor omnipresent throughout fake Irish pubs the world over, but rather for the feel of a real pub—an open, community-oriented, and family friendly restaurant and watering hole. The food ranges from average to quite good, with an exceptional upscale preparation of haggis (really, try it!). The beer menu is respectable, and the scotch list is top-notch. Most days see specials: M half price bottles of wine, W wines by the glass, Th scotch-tasting nights, and Sa night live entertainment.

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User:Peterfitzgerald/Touts

Touts are an unfortunate category of contributors in Wikivoyage.

Understand
Some of our most prolific contributors belong to the more specific category of American hotel touts (spammers, at that). Characteristics of these contributors include:

 * Only ever making edits related to (their) hotels
 * Only making edits to hotels that are owned by a (their) hotel conglomerate
 * Always using the add listing feature at the top of the sleep section, so that their listing remains unsorted by price
 * Always including the name of the town, zip code, state, or even country in the address, presumably because there is a good old fashioned copy paste job involved
 * Never (or nearly never) adding useful information, in particular price ranges, to their listings—thereby ever increasing the chances that our travel guides be mistaken for the yellow pages
 * Using promotional language that is so absurd that no traveler would ever pay it any attention (Seriously touts, why do you do this? I swear to you that we, the hotel using public, are not so dumb as to be influenced by you telling us that your "luxurious" "experience" "right near every attraction in the article" is so great.)
 * Consistently updating the same listings over and over, especially to restore policy violations that some other editor had taken the time to clean up
 * Violating the Project:Don't tout and Project:External links policies in more variations than I could possibly list
 * Never responding to messages left on talk pages
 * Adding multiple listings for one hotel
 * Doing a variation of combinations of the above (and occasionally none of the above) in seemingly random fashion, indicating that probably more than one person is at work

Do
I collect you guys. If you see your IP or user name in this list, it does not mean you are a tout. It does not mean I think you are contributing in bad faith. It does not mean you are in the same "standing" or what have you as the rest of the users on this list.

It does mean I will check over every single one of your contributions. Depending on a combination of how useful the content is that you added, and how egregiously it violates Wikivoyage policies, I will either leave it alone, clean it up, or just remove it altogether. Chain hotels with no useful information beyond addresses & phone numbers are, in my view, good candidates to be simply removed—anyone can just go on Expedia or whatever site they please and find your hotel. Personally, I also give preference to hotels that don't pay their employees to spam useless listings all over the site.

 * For reference, the worst offenders, in my opinion, are as follows in order:
 * 1. Intercontinental Hotels Group
 * 3. Wyndham Worldwide
 * 2. Choice Hotels
 * 4. Best Western
 * The individual hotel brands are listed via those links. My apologies if I've missed any of you.

For anyone else wondering what I'm up to in my mass deletions, please see Project:Accommodation listings.

And if you see marking a sleep section as "checked," that means that the sleep section is fully in order up to that edit in the article history.

Contact
I'm getting kind of tired of contacting you and leaving advice that gets ignored or unread. I would, however, be thrilled if you express interest in getting your edits to conform to policy (and therefore become useful), and would be happy to help you understand how to do so. You can contact me on my talk page.

If you have noticed some other contributor following the above patterns, and would like me to take a look, please just go right ahead and add them to the list, and I'll give it a look. Moreover, if you are interested in jumping into the effort cleaning up after the touts, please do! Feel free to modify this page below this line to note what has and has not been checked, and up to what date things have been checked.

If your ip starts with 122.169, you likely work for Wikivoyage's single worst offending spam agency. I urge fellow Wikivoyageers to add ips from this company to the list below, and to help revert their edits.

Checked through 9/8

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The Underground Railroad was a vast, informal network of safehouses, organizations, abolitionists, routes, and transportation in the nineteenth century used to aid slaves in escaping bondage to flee to the free states of the North and to Canada. The network as a whole was decentralized and often spontaneous, consisting of regional underground organizations, religious groups, individual sympathizers, professional "operators," and local municipal organizations, etc. This itinerary tracks an especially well traveled route...


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Peter Johnson Mankato, Minnesota USA

Computer language and web technologies instructor.

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User:(WT-en) PeterW

June 13 2006

I am not a huge contributor but I will cease all actvities on this site until I have processed all the information about Wikivoyage having been sold to a company (!), and then I will decide whether I continue.

What information I have contributed, specifically on Malta is stuff that I'm convinced has real value above what is already out there and readily available. I have been in an unusual position to get to know about Malta which few other tourists visiting the island have had; the Maltese ofcourse also will have some of the same info but not the objective attitude and comparative knowledge of other Mediterrannean holiday destinations. I have voluntarily contributed this info thinking that I was giving it to a community of travellers rather than a commercial venture.

I have still a lot which I could add, but the idea that any additions now contribute to the value of a product that some anonymous bunch of businessmen will be getting richer off really puts me off. This is why I also decided in the beginning not to contribute to World66, and I'm convinced that this is the same for many others. This is what made wikivoyage grow and get a lot of people wanting to cooperate and put energy into it.

Regardless of what I think of going commercial I as of yet also don't understand why the founders didn't go commercial on their own, I'm certain that the contributors would've had more faith with them at the helm of a small company with a single core activity, namely this site.

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Location: 	Amsterdam, Netherlands

Date of Birth:	8.7.1978

Occupation: 	IT, part time student political science

Profile Summary: 	I grew up all over the place (see below) and am in that sense a real TCK (I sometimes need subtitles when I think..), and as such what better place than Amsterdam to live in, this relatively tiny place (800,000 people) is as cosmopolitan as many places many times larger.

Languages spoken:	English, Dutch, German, some French Travel experience: 	Born in Lebanon, lived there and in Australia, Germany and Sweden as a kid. Visited most of western Europe, some Middle East, some south Asia, across the atlantic only New England. Planned trips: 	Nothing outside Europe for the moment due to lack of time and funds.

Wikipedia contributions: Visited Malta a lot as my parents live there right now, so I'm still working on adding as much as possible there. Also am working on some stuff for the Amsterdam article.

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I'm too lazy to create personalal pages on all of wiki-projects, so if you need some information about me, then please visit Wikipedia or Meta.

Note: If you need some questions or things to tell me, then you can do so on my talk page in Czech Wikipedia. Thanx.

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User:(WT-en) Peu

Hi!

I did expand the MediaWikiTour (Bus #108) by two Wikis: Have a good trip!
 * AK Vorrat
 * DplDemo

If you want to talk to me use WikiMail or my talkpage

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User:(WT-en) Peyton

Hi, I'm Peyton. I live in Huntsville, Alabama, and I consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable about the entire southern region of the United States in general. If you're planning on visiting the South, Alabama in particular, drop me a line, and I'll help you as much as I can.

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User:(WT-en) Phalseid

http://www.wikiexpert.com/User:Phalseid

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User:(WT-en) Phanganvillas

Koh Phangan is an Island in the Gulf of Thailand located next to its larger sister Island Koh Samui. Koh Phangan over the past decade has become the top destination for a perticular party that takes place every month. That party is the full moon party. One of the biggest beach parties in the whole of South East Asia. Backpackers from all over Asia decend to Phangan to attend this almost crazy wild party on the beach of Haad Rin. But lets not get to carried away with this once a month event, the Island of Phangan is a tropical paradise surrounded by beautiful clear waters that lap the exoctic landscape and superior beaches. Koh Phangan is 80% dense tropical jungle and this has been protected by the government of Thailand to keep it as natural and unspoilt as possible.Phangan has five small villages with Haad Rin and Thong Sala being the largest villages which also operate has the main ferry connections to the main land Thailand, Koh Samui and Koh Tao. Thong Sala is the biggest town and most of the ferries land here. Haad Rin is more of a large resort anddedicated to young backpackers and of course totally geared for the Full moon party.

The Island three days before and three days after the fullmoon party is extremly quiet during low season and some parts of high season. This makes the Island very unique for people who want to escape the everyday busy lives that they lead. Yoga on Phangan is very popular and it makes sense because of the pure tranquilty when living on this Island.

Phangan is very special destination and compared to its sister Island Koh Samui its not fully developed. Although the Island does have a Tesco and around seven 7/11's among alot of smaller more local supermarkets, Phangan is still very nice place to stay and be away from it all.

The Island of Phangan is full of activities to do and plenty to see. Renting a scooter for a day or so you can get around a good percantage of the Island and see some of the beautiul beaches that Phangan has to offer. There is also the famous Anthong Islands which is a national park, this is a one day trip by speedboat to some beautul Islands just of the coast of Phangan. A trip worth doing and a great day out.

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User:(WT-en) Phantron

Hello!

I'm an Irish Mathematics student from County Wicklow. I love travelling and have been to several countries on several continents.

I enjoy music and video games too.

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User:(WT-en) Phedre

New user to the site, but an old time traveller. You can find me on Flyertalk under the same name, and my flickr account is here. Hoping to make some useful contributions when I get the time! I've received tons of help from Wikivoyage on my own travels.

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User:(WT-en) Phelps

The latest fad in game development and the dissemination of news seems to be Facebook. Yep, you heard it right: Facebook is the new kid on the news block. Proving that gaming news sites and individual game sites aren't the end-all-be-all, Facebook pages are blossoming.

It's an intelligent move, really. Facebook is an international phenomenon that literally spans the globe. And, truthfully, it's SO much less 'trashy' than MySpace.

Here are a few of the Facebook game sites you can check out:

APB Jumpgate Evolution City of Heroes

As more crop up, we'll keep you posted. In the meantime, YOU tell US your thoughts about this newest rage in gaming.

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User:(WT-en) Phengbun

MOTOR BIKE RENTAL

we have different kind of motor bike for rent. monthly rental: 80USD/month daily rental: 5USD/day

Call +855 089 51 61 59

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User:(WT-en) Philbert2.71828

Also see my user pages at these places:
 * English Wikipedia
 * Wikipédia en français
 * Wikimedia Commons

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User:(WT-en) Philip1

this page is the same person as ilkeston1990 and philip1 (on wikipedia)

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User:(WT-en) PhilippInfo

Hi there PhilippInfo, and welcome to Wikivoyage!

Thanks for all your contributions thus far. Just one important observation: Many of the accomodation options you have been adding don't belong in the city article in which you have placed them..... One example: You placed a Brisbane hotel in the Sydney article (!) So.... Just a simple request to encourage you to check where information actually belongs before you add it..... Otherwise, you'll find that other contributors will just end up having to move the info to the right place... Either that, or they'll simply remove the incorrect information altogether! Hope this helps! (WT-en) Paul James Cowie 05:53, 27 October 2006 (EDT)

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hi this is a new account

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this is a new account

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User:(WT-en) PHILIPROBINSON

HI THIS IS PHILIP AND I HAVE GOT ACC AND IS WONDERING IF ANYBODY HAS IT

(WT-en) PHILIPROBINSON 16:44, 21 July 2007 (EDT)philip

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User:(WT-en) PhilliesPhan2008

Lawndale/Northeast Philadelphia is in Region name.

=Understand= The Philadelphia neighborhood of Lawndale is in the northeast area of the city and is nestled between Oxford Avenue and the intersection Rising Sun Avenue and the Roosevelt Boulevard. Although Lawndale is heavily residential, it also has a commercial district and is bordered on the north by the Fox Chase neighborhood and Lawncrest to the south.

=Get in=

Train
Lawndale is the last few stops on the Northbound Broad Street subway line. Stops include Hunting Park, Wyoming, Logan, Olney, and the last stop, Fern Rock Transportation Center. One can also reach Lawndale traveling Eastbound on the Market-Frankford line. These stops include Somerset, Allegheny, Tioga, Eris-Torresdale, Church, Margaret-Orthodox, and the Frankford Transportation Center-the end of the line. Septa's Northbound R8-Fox Chase train has a few stops in the Lawndale as well: Lawndale, Cheltenham, and Ryers.

Bus
SEPTA Bus terminals run throughout Lawndale.

Airport
Philadelphia Northeast Airport (1150 acres) is Pennsylvania's sixth busiest airport, bounded by Grant Avenue to the south, Academy Road to the east, Comly Road to the north, and the Roosevelt Boulevard to the west.

=Get around= Most locals prefer to travel by foot or bicycle throughout this neighborhood, but it is recommended that you travel by car if you wish to further explore Northeast Philadelphia after your stay in one of its most lively and exciting neighborhoods.

=See and Do=

Burholme Park
Burholme Park is a public park that provides playing fields for sport organizations. The property is home to three baseball diamonds, a football field, and three soccer fields. Burholme also contains a playground and is very popular for sledding because of its large and distinct hill. The park is situated next to Jeanes Hospital as well as a mini-golf and driving range facility.

Philadelphia Police Athletic League (PAL)
The Philadelphia Police Athletic League is an independent, non-profit corporation committed to "Cops Helping Kids". Philadelphia PAL is comprised of 27 centers across Philadelphia serving 26,000 youngsters both male and female. Each center is supervised by Philadelphia Police Officers who are assigned full-time to direct activities and oversee the youths. Programs include sport, educational and cultural opportunities. PAL is a mixture of police officers, civilian staff and a board of directors, including 100 of Philadelphia's business and community leaders. PAL facilities offer a multitude of sports for youngsters in their program as well as walk-in locals. Usually compared to a YMCA, PAL centers can be expected to contain both indoor and outdoor sport facilities. Indoor arenas include basketball courts, a weight room, and raquetball, while PAL's outdoor acreage is usually home to at least two baseball diamonds, soccer field, and batting cages.

Tookany Creek Park
Two miles of scenic beauty, Tookany Creek Park is home to a passive recreation area, jogging trail, natural area, picnic area, fish pond, playground, basketball courts, and a large field used for soccer and football. In an effort to increase its environmental awareness, Tookany Creek Park now offers educational classes to people of all ages and has created a Environmental Maintenance Team to oversee the cleanliness of the park and creek.

=Buy=

Artifax
Artifax is a producer and distributor of fine tobacco and accessories, conveniently located just around the corner from Steve's: Prince of Steaks. Although small, Artifax is a discrete shop one can go to if inclined to purchase any type of tobacco product or accessory, from plain old cigarette tobacco to intricate and extravagant glass pipes.

Roosevelt Mall
A shopping district that includes a multitude of outlets that will meet each and every one of your shopping needs. Stores located in the mall include Macy's, Verizon Wireless, Hot Topic, J&J Tattoos, Shogun III Hibachi Restaurant, CVS, GNC, Foot Locker, ToysRus, Modell’s, Wings2Go, Circuit City, Hallmark, Salerno Pizzeria, Best Buy, Staples, Mandee, and Wine&Spirits.

=Eat=

Steve's: Prince of Steaks
A contender with the many other infamous cheese steak houses in Philadelphia, Steve's Steaks is a wholesome neighborhood cheese steak spot in Lawndale owned and Operated by native Steve Iliescu and his family. In 1992,1998, 2005, and 2007, Steve's was voted "Best Cheesesteak" by Philadelphia Magazine. On November 27th 1998, the Philadelphia Eagles decided to make the world’s largest cheese steak for the Guinness Book of World Records. The steak itself was 365 feet long and was made by 22 local cheese steak restaurants, all competing to be the best of the biggest. Ultimately, Steve's was crowned the winner.

Nick's Roast Beef
A neighborhood tavern most well-known for its legendary roast beef sandwiches, Nick's Roast Beef has undergone its fair share of development since its humble beginnings in 1969. Lawndale locals flock to this friendly neighborhood pub and restaurant located on Cottman Avenue. A welcoming and friendly atmosphere combined with great food and fun makes Nick's Roast Beef a fine location to wine and dine.

Blue Ox Bistro
Just north of Lawndale in Fox Chase, this popular restaurant is home to a wide variety of beers-at least ten brands on tap-as well as regional and national craft bottle beers and Belgian and German imports. German favorites such as beef roulade and schnitzel are the anchors to the Ox’s exquisite menu. If German entrees do not tickle your fancy, there are plenty of other choices from the Ox's collection of salads, sandwiches and continental entrees. And of course, your youngsters are always welcome to utilize the children’s menu.

Makiman Sushi
This restaurant on Oxford Avenue, one the main thoroughfares in Lawndale, specializes in sushi and sashimi and has a wide selection of dishes in these categories. If you're not into raw fish and rice, you'll find some other Japanese culinary offerings, such as tempura, teriyaki, noodles and grilled meats.

Moonstruck Restaurant
Located in Fox Chase, which abuts Lawndale, this gourmet Italian eatery has been an area favorite since the late 1970s, and its owners got menu advice from famed Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan. Northern Italian cuisine is the specialty at Moonstruck

Miller's Ale House
Named one of Nation's Restaurant News' "Regional Powerhouse Chains," Miller’s Ale House quickly becomes identified within the local neighborhood as the ideal meeting ground for people to come and relax. Designed to attract a broad variety of customers, the Ale House menu focuses on quality, freshness, and value served within the comfortable social atmosphere of a neighborhood family tavern. All Ale House restaurants contain a full-service bar featuring wine, liquor and over seventy-five varieties beer.

=Drink=

Gallagher's Pub
A infamous Irish corner pub known for its great food and large selection of beer. House specialties include shepherd’s pie and Guinness Irish stew plus plenty of other traditional favorites. The two-floor venue features darts, a juke box and six TVs.

Mooney's Restaurant
Mooney’s Restaurant is a Dublin-based pub known for its Guinness and Irish home-cooking. Fan favorites include grilled salmon sandwiches and shepherd's pie. This Northeast Philadelphia outpost is particularly cozy with many of its tables situated around a large fireplace.

Grey Lodge Pub
A friendly pub ranked one of the top fifty bars in the U.S.A by Beer Advocates, the Grey Lodge Pub features a constantly rotating selection of mostly local brews on draft. Food remains in close proximity in priority to the beer. French fries, in particular, were named "Best of Philly" in 2006 by Philadelphia Magazine.

McNoodles
Located in the 7300 block of Frankford Avenue, McNoodles Irish Pub presents a whole new attitude toward making customers happy and giving them what they want in a local tavern. McNoodles has an excellent layout with a huge main bar room and very spacious side bar that features dining tables. There is not a bad seat in the house for watching your favorite Philly sport's team; there is a television everywhere you look. If you've never been, do yourself a huge favor and check this party out!

=Sleep=

Days Inn
4200 Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19124 (215)289-9204

Amber Motel
6391 Oxford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19111 (215)992-5678

Four Points By Sheraton
9461 East Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19114 (215)671-9600

Roosevelt Motor Inn
7600 Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19152 (215)338-7600

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User:(WT-en) Phisches

Hi there,

I am a 20 something old student of electrical engineering at Uni Stuttgart. During my spare time I love to get my backpack out from under the bed and hit the road from time to time (unsurprisingly, as this happens to be a project dedicated to traveling ;-))

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User:(WT-en) Phoenix-forgotten

About Me
Well, I'm a U.S. citizen living in southern Maine. I'm trying to contribute information about locations near me, like Old Orchard Beach. All I have to do now is overcome the incredible power of laziness...

 * me on the Commons
 * me at Meta-Wiki
 * me at Wikipedia, where I'm likely to check back for messages more often

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User:(WT-en) Phpcoder848

Eduards Marhelis From Latvia

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User:(WT-en) PhragMunkee

Not much here. Check out Chattanooga, TN instead.

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User:(WT-en) Phuket baby

Phuket Baby Equipment Rental Company
Visitors to the Island of Phuket, Thailand can rent Baby Equipment like strollers, car seats and cribs from Phuket Baby Rentals.

Travelling with babies and young children can be both stressful and expensive. Before you leave home you have to plan for all the supplies you will need – a car seat for transportation, somewhere for the baby to sleep, a stroller to get around and those are just the basics. You still need toys and entertainment and infant tubs or gates for the stairs.

To think of packing all this with you would take up a lot of luggage space and as airlines tighten their baggage allowance policies, just how does a family get through the airport with a baby, a car seat, a stroller and a playpen? They don’t....... Now opened in Phuket, Thailand. “Phuket Baby Rentals” helps stressed out parents by renting the latest baby gear and providing travelling families with all the comforts of home.

No longer do you have to lug all of the gear with you, you can now rent it from a reputable company and have it waiting for you at the airport, car rental agency, hotel or relatives house when you arrive. Phuket Baby rentals demonstrates pride and commitment in providing safe, clean, high quality baby equipment rentals at a fraction of the cost of excess baggage fees with the airlines.

Rentals are available for daily, weekly or long-term. With a focus on customer service satisfaction Phuket Baby rentals want to help make family travel easier and more practical let us help you plan your next vacation

Visit our website at [http://www.phuketbabyrentls.com Phuket Baby Equipment Rentals

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User:(WT-en) PhuketBB

Phuket is a city in Thailand.

Phuket Babysitting & Care Service Co., Ltd
Phuket Babysitting provide travelers to Phuket with professional babysitting services and peace of mind when taking time out to enjoy themselves during their stay in Phuket.

We provide short and long term day and evening options for those traveling around in Phuket with youngsters. We have a range of professional English speaking day time, evening and weekly staff who love children and meet our strict standards and requirements to be considered a staff member of Phuket Babysitting. We follow a strict regiment in hiring staff and have a full list of terms and conditions that previous customers have found very comforting when choosing to use our services

We provide this service to visitors to Phuket to allow them to take evenings out for themselves or to have someone assist them during the days in taking care of very young children, hyper active children or those who have any special needs.

Amongst our portfolio of experienced care givers we also have qualified nurses who can be a great use if you a traveling with a child or children that have special needs or requirements. These services allow you to have the break you need when visiting this wonderful country all the while assured that your loved ones are well cared for.

We do not provide budget prices or budget services as we believe that children require professional care and our aim is to constantly ensure those in our care receive exceptional professional care.

You can visit our website at http://www.phuketbabysitting.com/ for full information and to obtain information on the options available to you during your holiday.

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User:(WT-en) PhuketLiving

"An expat living in Phuket Thailand" - I've spent much of the past 5 years in Phuket, and enjoy the culture, weather and living here.

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User:(WT-en) Pi

Hello, my name is Christian.

I am a British charity worker and part-time student.

Summary of Travel Experience
I run a charity in Nakuru, Kenya and while living there I have travelled to:

Nairobi

Nakuru

Along to East African Highway to Kampala (via Jinja)

North from Kanpala to Gulu and the Sudanese border (but not to Sudan)

From Kampala to Kigali over land, around Kigali, over to Gisenyi on the edge of Lake Kivu

Between Gisenyi to Goma, DRC over road

Around and about Goma (including up Mt Nyiragongo)

Between Nairobi and Arusha and Moshi (over land)

In the UK I have lived in Chester, Cambridge and London I have also travelled considerably in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

I list these because if anyone feels an article related to these is inadequate, I can possibly help

Requests for Photographs
I can acquire photographs of Cambridge and Chester (UK), and Nairobi and Nakuru (Kenya) easily if required.

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User:(WT-en) Picaroon9288

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Picaroon9288

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User:(WT-en) Picturetokyo

Photographer In The Making
Stationed at Yokota Air Base Japan, just 30km from Tokyo I like to think of myself as a Photographer in the Making. My contrubutions are few in Wiki but slowly growing

Yokota Air Base

730th Air Mobility Squadron

More so my work can been seen on my personal website at Picture Tokyo

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User:(WT-en) Pierre

About Pierre

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User:(WT-en) PierreAbbat

WikiPedia:User:PierreAbbat fr:Utilisateur:(WT-fr) PierreAbbat pt:Usuário:(WT-pt) PierreAbbat I live in Charlotte, North Carolina, used to live in California, Ohio, and New York, and have traveled to Barbados, Portugal, Germany, and Brazil.

Travel plans
I'm thinking of going to Belize and Guatemala to meet the Mayas and Garinagu, and perhaps as far as Costa Rica, hopefully sometime in 2010.

(WT-en) Keyboard layouts

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User:(WT-en) Pieter

My contributions to wikivoyage are limited and were trigered by
 * periods of fairly frequent traveling, mainly for business
 * a special interest in photos and visual contact with the places i visit

You can find more about me on my homepage: http://www.PieterBlommaert.net

Pieter

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User:(WT-en) Pietro Speroni

My name is Pietro Speroni, and I am the maintainer of Our Answer.

My personal page at Our Answer is here.

I created this account mainly to generate a uniform identity through the wiki, even though I use to travel quite a lot, mainly in Europe and South East Asia.--(WT-en) Pietro Speroni 08:29, 1 May 2004 (EDT)

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User:(WT-en) Pigeon

http://pigeond.net/

http://itbox.com.au/

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User:(WT-en) Pigeonshouse

Eeeeeeeevening!

I started this account to edit some of the London page but have also contributed to the Southampton page.

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User:Pigsonthewing

I am Andy Mabbett, from Birmingham , England. You can find more about me on my Wikipedia user page or my website: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk, or follow me as @pigsonthewing on Twitter.

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User:(WT-en) Piipii

Hello,I`m P-P. I from Bangkok,Thailand. But now I living in Japan for studying in Oberin University. Bangkok is the great place, I think.It`ve deviloped place like Tokyo. Have anything what you want. The bigest large and highclass shopping center is in Bangkok. Moreover, The world` bigest weekend market `s in Bangkok,Thailand too. You can eat dilicious foodsandfruits in there. However, If you go to THailand, I warn you should too use many sunblock because, It really hot place !!!!!

Just cleaned out an old draft page from a student to prevent this popping up on searches. If anyone wants to see this student's work or bring this back, just use the history. (WT-en) Ted 20:36, 24 September 2010 (EDT)

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User:(WT-en) Pings007

Born and brought up in India. Living in the US for the last few years. Had an opportunity to travel quite a bit in South India and a large part of the US. I have a heart for traveling unconventionally, with less money and contacting locals to get to know the real places of worth to visit, rather than getting sold out to typical corporate propaganda.

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User:(WT-en) Pingveno

Wikivoyage Project
Portland, Ore - I just started an article on my hometown; Portland, Oregon.

WikiPedia:User:Pingveno

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User:(WT-en) Pinkfluffybrick

About Me
Hi, My name is Áine Hickey. I'm Irish. I love travelling - learning about new people, experiencing new cultures, eating new food and of course, trying all the local beer. I am presently lucky enough to be unemployed and homeless, as I am travelling around the world with my boyfriend.

Current Projects
I also plan on sticking some photos in for town near me where I live, once I get a chance to visit them.
 * Kilkenny - My home town. I've done a lot of work on this page, trying to make it as good a I can. I've also done some work on County Kilkenny and some of the towns in it.
 * Gouda - When I live now. This page is very basic, so give me some time...

Docent
I know a fair bit about Kilkenny and am learning more about Gouda everyday. If you have any questions, leave me a note on my talk page or send me an email. I'll try to help.

My Travels

I'm from Ireland. Before I caught the travel bug, I'd only been to nearby places - UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and France.

Inter railing
In 2002, I went inter railing to The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, France, Monaco, Spain and Italy.

Southern Africa
In 2007, I did a trip around Southern Africa. I travelled to South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.

Overland To India and Through South East Asia to Australia
My biggest adventure so far was travelling for 15 months. Myself and my boyfriend travelled over land to India, then through South East Asia to Australia.

We started off in The Netherlands where we live. We spent a few days in Copenhagen, and Stockholm on our way to Norway. We spent three weeks there, travelling up to Nordkapp and on to Russia. We spent a month in Russia, making our way to Mongolia. We travelled for 20 days around the beautiful country side there, and another 10 days in UB sorting our visas and relaxing.

Next stop, China. We arrived just after the Olympics. We spend a few weeks in the North, travelling from Beijing through Datong, Pingyao, Xian to Xining. Here we organised a trip through Tibet to Nepal. We spent one and a half months there, before heading to India. We covered all this overland.

After two months in India we took our first flight to Hong Kong. We loved China so much, we wanted to go back. We went to Macau, then spent another 1 1/2 months in China. We then visited South East Asia - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Our final stop, was Australia. We spent 3 months here. We bought a car in Perth and drove up the West Coast, down to the Centre, and then down the East Coast to Melbourne.

Other Places
Israel - I had to travel to Tel Aviv for work. I got some time off to visit Jerusalem.

Morocco - I've been here twice. First time was a day trip to Tangier. Second time, I spent four days in Casablanca.

USA - I been here a few times. I lived in New Haven, Connecticut for a summer during college. I travelled around that area, including Boston and New York. I spent 3 weeks in Dallas, 3 weeks driving around Southern California, and have been skiing in Denver.

I've also been to Austria, Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Mexico.

My Photos
Here are some of my favourite photos that I've uploaded to wikivoyage.

More Info
You can check out more photos on our Picasaweb album or our blog, but this doesn't work in China.

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User:(WT-en) Pinkkittyplayground

I recently met a Zulu called Lulu who is caring for my mother in law in a nursing home in England. I worked in Natal from 1975 to 1983 and had some basic zulu command words. However, when I was confronted by Lulu and asked to speak some Zulu all I could think of was "Woza lappa," and "pendula," which as I remember means come here and turn over. Obviously this is totally inappropriate, but with greater thought I remembered " Nyabonga" which I think is thankyou, and "Hamba Wheatata lo sandu" Go and fetch me a hammer,which is still not a lot of use. Any further clues would be appreciated. Nyabonga.

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User:(WT-en) Piolinfax

I am more likely to be found here

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User:(WT-en) Piotr

I was born in Elbląg but I have lived in Łódź for most of my life. I have studied philosophy for the last 7+ years. I work as an interpreter and as a tour guide for Lodz and nearby cities. As a tour guide I specialize in a Jewish history of the region.

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User:(WT-en) Piotr567

Wolkberg Wilderness Area

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User:(WT-en) Piotrek

Piotrek from Poland

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I am much more active on Wikipedia, but as with many Wiki projects, I will be happy to help here from time to time.

If you want my quick reply (I may not be back here for days...weeks...who knows?), leave me a msg on my Wikipedia User:Piotrus Talk Page or use my IM info posted there to contat me through them.

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User:(WT-en) PIPE

Bold textESTO ES UNA PRUEBA PARA OPEN IDItalic textESPEREMOS QUE FUNCIONE BIEN

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User:(WT-en) Pippo

czelzel Hello! Having traveled a good part of Asia since 1992, a bit tired of following the same path beaten by all, being furthermore tired of carrying kiloes of more or less useful, expensive guidebooks and believing in the power and freshness of free information on the internet... Let's share our knowledge and discover and enjoy our fabulous world!

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User:(WT-en) Pisante11

I love to travel and I have learned a lot from my travels. Currently, I am a frequent contributor with Tripadvisor. I am hoping to contribute as much as I can for Wikivoyage too.

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User:(WT-en) Pis bus

Hi my name is Anders.

In 2007 I worked for 9 months in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.

Places I want to visit include:

 * Brazil
 * Peru
 * Kenya
 * Dublin, Ireland
 * Moscow, Russia
 * Istanbul, Turkey
 * India

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User:(WT-en) Piyush1919

I am Piyush Nimiyar from Delhi, working on eastern India related pages like Patna/Ranchi/Kolkata/Bihar etc.

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User:(WT-en) Piyushghij

'''I have a deep interest in writing informative news on Travel and Tourism in India. Also I have given my own words to a travel portal'''

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User:(WT-en) Piyushsinghi

My home town is Jalpaiguri but currently I m in Bangalore.I like travelling a lot.

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User:Pjamescowie/old

Greetings and salutations! My name is Paul James Cowie and I was born in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Australia in May 1968. Roughly thirty years later I moved to London in January 1998, where I reside indefinitely, working and completing my studies, in addition to travelling extensively throughout the world. Will I return to live in Sydney in the (near) future? Don't know: London's a great place, and there's several other places in the world in which I wouldn't mind living for a while (New York, Paris, Berlin, Tel Aviv....)

An archaeologist by training and profession, I am still currently engaged in the task of completing my doctoral dissertation on the relationship between Egypt and Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age. I have excavated extensively in Egypt, Jordan and Israel and had several forays into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, amongst other interesting destinations...

I am the editor of a occasional blog and web portal dedicated to the Ancient Near East and Egypt - for those interested in the ancient history and culture of the Middle East and the Nile Valley, it can be found at: http://www.ancientneareast.net/. These days, I seem to spend more time editing my own online research database/encyclopaedia/information dump on the same topic: it can be found at http://www.archaeowiki.org/.

Countries I have visited (and sometimes lived and worked in) during the last decade (not an exhaustive list!): Australia (of course), Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and the United States.

Most Recent Overseas Travel:

 * August 2006 - big US trip to Nevada (Las Vegas), California and New York.... Highlights were the Grand Canyon and Yosemite national parks
 * April 2007 - fortnight sojourn "back home" in Sydney, Australia and a weekend visit to Brussels in Belgium
 * July 2007 - the Italian island of Sicily and the French region of Normandy

Current Travel Plans

 * October 2007 - driving though most of southern France with my parents (yes, I get to do all the organising, all the driving and all the talking! Amazing how parental roles become reversed as you get older....!)

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User:(WT-en) Pjmpjm7

Current places of residence

 * Near Sydney NSW Australia

 * Holiday house near Maleny QLD Australia

Past places of residence

 * Ellsworth, ME U. S. A.
 * Brunswick, ME U. S. A.
 * Washington, DC U. S. A.
 * Cambridge, MA U. S. A.
 * Darwin, NT Australia
 * North Sydney, NSW Australia

Areas visited in Australia

 * Sydney NSW
 * Blue Mountains NSW
 * Wollongong NSW
 * Newcastle NSW
 * Bathurst NSW
 * Oberon NSW
 * Byron Bay NSW
 * Canberra ACT
 * Adelaide SA
 * Melbourne VIC
 * Perth WA
 * Fremantle WA
 * Albany WA
 * Brisbane QLD
 * Gold Coast QLD
 * Sunshine Coast QLD
 * Cairns QLD
 * Townsville QLD
 * Darwin NT
 * Katherine NT
 * Hobart TAS
 * Launceston TAS
 * Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park TAS

Areas visited in the United States

 * Maine
 * New Hampshire
 * Vermont
 * Massachusetts
 * Connecticut
 * Rhode Island
 * New York
 * New Jersey
 * Pennsylvania
 * Maryland
 * Washington, DC
 * Virginia
 * North Carolina
 * California
 * Texas
 * Georgia
 * Hawaii

Areas visited world-wide

 * Canada
 * Iceland
 * England
 * France
 * Switzerland
 * Italy
 * Luxembourg
 * Germany
 * Austria
 * Slovenia
 * Croatia
 * Serbia
 * Montenegro
 * Republic of Macedonia
 * Greece
 * Turkey
 * Iran
 * Afghanistan
 * Pakistan
 * India
 * Thailand
 * Malaysia
 * Singapore
 * Indonesia
 * Bali
 * East Timor
 * New Zealand
 * Fiji
 * New Caledonia
 * Japan

Useful Wikivoyage Bookmarks

 * Project:Utilities
 * Project:Template index
 * Time zones
 * Manual of Style
 * Project:How_to_add_an_image
 * Project:How_to_draw_a_map
 * Project:Travellers' pub
 * Project:Ways_to_help_Wikivoyage
 * Special:Specialpages
 * Project:How to handle unwanted edits
 * Project:Listings
 * Project:Where you can stick it
 * Project:Microformats
 * Project:Geographical_hierarchy
 * Project:Votes_for_deletion
 * Project:List_of_related_projects

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User:(WT-en) Pjorgensen

Peter Jörgensen is an information scientist, currently working in Florida. He and his wife travel as much as they can, given limited time and budgets. They also enjoy cruising the the Gulf of Mexico on their electric yacht "Electra" and their Island Trader, Phoenix.

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User:(WT-en) Pjt33

pjt33 began travelling aged merely 6 months, when his family moved to Kenya for two years. In his teens he visited many European countries, including the newly open Russian Federation in '95. More recently he has spent time in Latin America, including four months in Ecuador, and the Middle East. He now lives in Spain.

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User:(WT-en) Pkarnig

This is Peter Karnig's page here on Wikivoyage. I moved to the Half Moon Bay area in 2003 where I own and live in a small house on Coronado St. in the town of El Granada. I live here with my son Maximilian and our new puppy Boscoe. Boscoe is a Harrier. Think: mix of beagle and foxhound.

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User:(WT-en) Pkhare

Hi friends, I am Pankaj. Presently serving as Director, International Division of Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.

Trained as a geologist, I have 23 years of experience in formal and distance education. I have done my PhD in Distance Education on "Datamining applications in Distance education" from a open University in India. I have served as faculty and as an academic manager in IGNOU as well served Commonwealth of Learning as Programme Officer.

Elearning excited me right from the day I was exposed to it. The technology enabled learning is a great educational delivery method where we can create one-to-one environment for learners. And now, Wikieducator, a new concept for the practitioners of Distance Learning, is a new technological life for me and I am enjoying it. The principle is simple, learn a new thing each day.

Though my email is pkhare@ignou.ac.in but I will prefer to talk to you through WikiEducator

I have uploaded my CV at My CV

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User:(WT-en) P.K.Niyogi

I am a freelance writer. I have travelled a little in India, South-east Asia and Western Europe. I enjoy writing about my travels. I also contribute to Wikipedia, Wikiquote and Wikisource.

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User:(WT-en) Plaas

Plaas is the nick of Marcel Plaatsmam. He is Dutch, but he lives in Belgium, Leuven.

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User:(WT-en) Planetcast

I am a web developer based in Toronto, Canada. My travels are principally in Greece, through all parts and islands of that miraculous country!

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User:(WT-en) Plankton

my website:
 * www.BaliBudgetTraveller.com
 * www.BaliLongVacation.com
 * www.BaliDirectVilla.com
 * www.IndonesiaTropical.com

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User:(WT-en) Plato

Hi I'm user plato from wikipedia I figured i'll edit here too! :)

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User:(WT-en) PlayaVistaToday

http://blog.playavistatoday.com

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User:(WT-en) Plokt

I Live in Ireland and have visited Krakow and Warsaw in Poland, Vilnius in Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Manchester and London in England. My favourite city I have visited is Vilnius with Kampala coming up second.

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User:(WT-en) Plug

My webname is Plug but in real life I am a traveller based in the UK who travels widely on business and for pleasure.

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User:(WT-en) Pluke

Isle_of_Arran

"Lost are only those, who abandon themselves"- Hans-Ulrich Rudel (July, 1916 - 1982)

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User:(WT-en) Pmsyyz

wikipedia:User:Pmsyyz

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User:(WT-en) Pne

Hello! I’m Philip Newton from Hamburg, Germany.

I speak English and German fluently and can get by in French and Modern Greek. I also have a smattering of many other languages.

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User:(WT-en) Pnikr

unit

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User:(WT-en) Podviaznikov

Hello, Podviaznikov! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 18:08, 17 August 2010 (EDT)

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User:(WT-en) Poisonspy

Hi i am Poisonspy.

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User:(WT-en) Polarbear34

Hello. I am new to Wikivoyage. Bear with me.

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User:(WT-en) Politis

Welcome

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User:(WT-en) Polysics

Welcome to my userpage! :D I finally decided to make an actual username to keep track of my contributions. I hope I can add some meaningful content.

Since I am not very well-traveled (yet!), I hope to be primarily fixing smaller details in already established articles, and strengthening the articles of local places that I spend a lot of time in.

Destination Wishlist

 * Seychelles

 * Cambodia - Kratie, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat, Battambang

 * Zimbabwe

 * Easter Island

 * Argentina - Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego

 * Chile

 * Alaska

 * Cuba

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User:(WT-en) Polythenepam

We backpack plastic free. Find out more at www.plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com

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User:(WT-en) Ponovoprobam

Ponovoprobam

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User:(WT-en) Pontauxchats

fr:Utilisateur:(WT-fr) Pontauxchats

Pontauxchats de la Wikipédia francophone.

Toujours les mêmes J'aime et J'aime pas... :o)

English user page on WP

Aide-mémoire :
 * Project:Article templates

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User:(WT-en) Poplargroveplantation

http://www.poplargrove.com/images/house_front.jpg Saved by the peanut! Poplar Grove is America's oldest peanut plantation, today open to the public for tours and live demonstrations. On the National Register of Historic Places, the 16 acre site features an 1850 manor house, a tenant house, blacksmith shop, weaving studio, basket studio, agricultural exhibits, farm animals, gift shop, picnic and playground area. Open February through mid-December. Monday - Saturday 9am - 5pm, Sunday noon - 5pm. For annual events, facility rental and more information visit www.poplargrove.com. Telephone (910) 686-9518 ext. 26.

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User:(WT-en) Poppleton1

Hi, I'm a UK student who has done a reasonable amount of travelling, but hopes to do a lot more in the future! My personal favourite destination is Germany.

Planned Trips
Dresden July 2010

Budapest September 2010

Saarland Spring 2011

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 * South Africa
 * Norway
 * Japan & Korea (would also like to see the north)
 * East Germany (again) especially Leipzig, Chemnitz & Dresden
 * Russia Moscow & St Petersburg as well as some of the ut of the way places like Valdivostok & Petropavlovsk
 * Iceland Stunning scenery!

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User:(WT-en) Porikolpok Oxom

I am a porikolpok from oxom and would like to be involved in porikolpona of a prosperous future oxom!

My specific interests are: 1. Oxom 2. Uttor-purbanchol 3. Progoti aaru Unnoti 4. Nogor-cohor 5. Aancholik porikolpona 6. Ontohgnathony 7. Buronjy 8. Kristi aaru Xongoskriti 9. Jati-gothon-prokriya and 10. Asia issues

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User:(WT-en) Port7

I am port7 / Mark Johnson

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User:(WT-en) Portugalspainboth

Iberia. The name conjures up images of a fascinating land rich in history, awash in sunlight and alive with colorful festivals. Spain and Portugal share the Iberian Peninsula and together offer some of the most exciting and interesting vacation options for American travelers today. Consider this: a trip and a Spain trip combined to experience the best of both countries, from hotels in Spain to a Portugal tour, your vacation to the Iberian Peninsula will be truly memorable.

Welcome to our Wikivoyage page for Portugal and Spain!

Both countries have a wealth of historic monuments: Roman ruins, medieval castles, Moorish fortresses and Gothic, Romanesque and Baroque cathedrals. Portugal – and particularly Spain – are treasure troves of art and were once home to some of the world’s most revered artists like Velázquez, Goya, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí and Picasso. In addition, both Lisbon and Madrid have been adding new museums and expanding their other cultural institutions.

And yet beyond these traditional sights, Lisbon along with Spain’s top cities now have a cool, modern vibe with hip new design hotels and trendy restaurants.

For today’s travelers, Spain and Portugal offer a pulsating energy, non-stop nightlife, friendly people and arguably the most interesting and delicious cuisine in the world.

In fact, there has never been a better time for Americans to discover the destinations of the Iberian Peninsula. Right now, architects are busy restoring historic quarters, renovating waterfronts, adding state-of-the-art marinas and creating dramatic new cultural centers. And while both countries are sprucing themselves up –– they are also taking care to safeguard their enormous historical and cultural wealth.

The Spanish call it amor a la vida and the Portuguese, amor da vida, and both communicate this love of life to all visitors.

So this year, or next, why not plan a trip to Spain and Portugal? Thanks to the lovely temperate climate, visitors can enjoy sunny weather, golf and the beaches year round. Even in winter, snow birds can bask on the beaches of the Algarve or the Costa del Sol and sail the warm waters of the Mediterranean or Atlantic.

We invite you to come visit our Iberia – a land where all your travel dreams are possible.

Portugal? Spain? Both.

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