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Baltimore, USA
Get to know more about Baltimore, Maryland. Check out its main attractions: museums and exhibitions and consider the information about its family-friendly hotels.
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 Baltimore, Maryland Features:• Explore sharks, frogs, fish, turtles, pythons, and more at the National Aquarium • Try to fly through the air at the Inner Harbor's trapeze school • Get into the urban tree house with your kids at Port Discovery • Observe mummies, medieval armor, and masterworks at the Walters Art Museum • Enjoy the Orioles at Camden Yards Baltimore boasts stunning Inner Harbor, old-style baseball stadium, top-notch art museums, and ethnic neighborhoods, is very diverse - but no less tempting - than its neighbor, Washington, D.C., about 40 miles south. You may begin at the Inner Harbor with its many family-friendly attractions, chief among them the National Aquarium., It is one of the largest ray exhibits along with Wings in the Water in the country, the Atlantic Coral Reef filled with rainbow-colored fish, and wall-sized tanks of sharks, the aquarium's two newest exhibits are intriguing and worthy additions. You may watch flying foxes, freshwater crocodiles, snake-necked turtles, pythons, and rainbow lorikeets at "Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes". You may discover grunting, chirping, hopping critters in habitats ranging from tundra to rainforest to your backyard at "Frogs! A Chorus of Colors". Relish 360-degree sceneries of the Baltimore horizon from the 27th floor of the city's World Trade Center. You will get oriented with the help of stationed binoculars and photo map guides. The only Civil War-era vessel still afloat, the USS Constellation, is docked at the Inner Harbor. Get aboard this imposing warship to explore the spar deck where the steering was done, the gun deck where a replica 20-pounder cannon is fired twice a day, and the berth deck where the crew slept in hammocks. You may let your children who are ten and older take the Powder Monkey Tour on weekends, and experience hands-on how young boys served in the Civil War Navy. Take in an IMAX movie or a planetarium show at the Maryland Science Center, on the south Inner Harbor, then explore Dinosaur Mysteries, where you can touch a Triceratops skull, examine fossils, and ogle the life-size dino skeletons. If the weather in the city is warm, you may learn to fly through the air with the greatest of ease at Baltimore's edition of the Trapeze School New York. Book ahead for these two-and-a-half- to three-hour sessions, open to ages six and older. The main place of Port Discovery, a museum aimed at kids from age two to ten, is an urban tree house where kids can climb, crawl through tunnels, and wriggle across rope bridges. You may study more than 350 years of history at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. Visit the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum and get aboard old passenger cars and even take a mile-long ride. Baltimore's cultural heart, Mt. Vernon neighborhood, is home to the first-rate Walters Art Museum, whose collection boasts Egyptian mummies, medieval armor, a Monet, and a Carl Faberge egg. This star-shaped fort is into the lives of the men who served here. If you want to have another taste of true Americana, you may indulge the national pastime by rooting for the Orioles at Camden Yards, one of major-league baseball's most atmospheric stadiums.
Family-Friendly Hotels
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