It was a busy day here in New York: Bus Tour > Statue of Liberty > Ellis Island > Times Square
After a short night we all got up for our first American breakfast: The classic peanutbutter & jelly sandwich.
Now we were ready to head straight to Grand Central Station, which is relatively popular and known through many different hollywood films. There we took our first 10 group pictures. From there we took the bus to Battery Park.
On the way we already saw a lot of New York, from the Empire State Bulding to the bull of Wall Street. We got a first impression of all the different districts of Manhattan, such as SoHo or the Financial District. Most of us used half of their cameras memory space photographing all the things we saw only during this tour. Approximately one and half hours later we finally arrived at Battery Park. The view over Hudson River was fantastic, we could even see the Statue of Liberty from there.
As we all were hungry we had some free time. I went with Isi, Niklas, Hanna and Yandamé to TGI Friday's and let me tell you, the chicken there was literally the best I have ever eaten.
Next on our To-Do-List was a trip to Liberty Island. On the ferry we had an amazing view of the Statue of Liberty. As we didn't have much time there everyone got rid of their audio guide as soon as possible to take pictures. We also took 20 more group pictures.
After a quick walk around the island we got back on the ferry to Ellis Island and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The museum is special for us from Hamburg as we have an emigration museum there. You can see how the people emigrated from Germany there. The museum on Ellis Island is dealing with the immigration to the US. To see what procedures the people had to go through in former times, I had to do a test. Click here to watch As you can see in the video, people, who wanted to immigrate, had to prove that they were sane. Luckily I managed to prove that I am healthy, so the officer let us go back on the ferry.
After a long day full of new impressions and experiences, we all were exhausted. But the day was not over, though. The next trip brought us to Times Square, which is an absolutely insane place at night. There is so much light that you can easily forget that it is night. After a short walk back to our hostel we finally arrived at our destination... The bed
Now we were ready to head straight to Grand Central Station, which is relatively popular and known through many different hollywood films. There we took our first 10 group pictures. From there we took the bus to Battery Park.
On the way we already saw a lot of New York, from the Empire State Bulding to the bull of Wall Street. We got a first impression of all the different districts of Manhattan, such as SoHo or the Financial District. Most of us used half of their cameras memory space photographing all the things we saw only during this tour. Approximately one and half hours later we finally arrived at Battery Park. The view over Hudson River was fantastic, we could even see the Statue of Liberty from there.
As we all were hungry we had some free time. I went with Isi, Niklas, Hanna and Yandamé to TGI Friday's and let me tell you, the chicken there was literally the best I have ever eaten.
Next on our To-Do-List was a trip to Liberty Island. On the ferry we had an amazing view of the Statue of Liberty. As we didn't have much time there everyone got rid of their audio guide as soon as possible to take pictures. We also took 20 more group pictures.
After a quick walk around the island we got back on the ferry to Ellis Island and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The museum is special for us from Hamburg as we have an emigration museum there. You can see how the people emigrated from Germany there. The museum on Ellis Island is dealing with the immigration to the US. To see what procedures the people had to go through in former times, I had to do a test. Click here to watch As you can see in the video, people, who wanted to immigrate, had to prove that they were sane. Luckily I managed to prove that I am healthy, so the officer let us go back on the ferry.
After a long day full of new impressions and experiences, we all were exhausted. But the day was not over, though. The next trip brought us to Times Square, which is an absolutely insane place at night. There is so much light that you can easily forget that it is night. After a short walk back to our hostel we finally arrived at our destination... The bed
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