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Are you ready to explore the cultural rich city of Sharjah? Hop on board on one of the Bus Lines. Both the Leisure and Cultural Tour start from the Central Souq I, so make sure you look around before beginning the adventure as you'll find so many great shops and boutiques. Along the Leisure Tour hop-off at Bus Stop 2 if you're a nature lover. Palm Tree Oasis is a great area to breathe in the fresh air, take a stroll or even sit down for a little picnic break. Hop-off at Bus Stop 4 to visit the Al Majaz, a relaxing area where you can enjoy the views of the waterfront. There's even a water feature in the middle which is lit up in an array of colours at night, it's breathtakingly beautiful! The Sharjah Aquarium at Bus Stop 9 is one for all the family and a great day out if you want to escape the heat for a while. At the same Bus Stop you'll find the Maritime Museum too where you can learn about everything that goes on at the Sharjah port. If you love seafood then hop-on the Cultural Tour Bus Line and head to the Fish Market at Bus Stop 15 where you'll be able to pick up some freshly caught fish. Next up at Bus Stop 17 is the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, a spectacular landmark both inside and out, where you'll be able to see all kinds of exciting Islamic artefacts. Buy you City Sightseeing Bus Tour today!
The Holy Land Experience is Inspirational, Educational and Entertaining, offering a completely immersive biblical atmosphere to our guests from all over the world.
Visitors will be taken back to the times of Jesus and experience His hope, love and promise. Be inspired as you experience the extraordinary pages of the Bible come alive on stage. Let the amazing stories of love, grace and hope stir your heart and encourage your life.
Experience award winning live stage productions throughout the day in our 1700 seat state-of-the-art auditorium. Be enlightened as you travel through the Tabernacle, learn from the educative Scriptorium museum and view the amazing replicas from old Jerusalem.
Join our cast as they bring you festival style singing and dancing, test your Biblical knowledge in our live game show ‘Bible Busters’ and take the kids to ‘Adventureland’ for rock climbing, mini-golf, face painting and stories in the children’s theater.
A day at the Holy Land Experience may change your life!
Highlights
Winning live stage productions!
See amazing replicas from Old Jerusalem.
Be taken back to the times of Jesus to experience His hope, love and promise!
Test your Biblical knowledge in the live game show "Bible Busters"
Rock climbing, mini-golf, and face painting for the kids.
Inclusions
Admission to Holyland Experience
Duffy Square - Statue of Lt. Colonel Father Francis
Patrick Duffy
TKTS Discount Theater ticket kiosk
Statue of George M. Cohan
Times Square Alliance Information Center
Palace Theater
Marriott Marquis Hotel
Marquis Theatre
Bertelsmann Building
Planet Hollywood
MTV Studios
Minskoff Theater
Toys R Us
Hard Rock Cafe
One Times Square
NASDAQ Market Site
Thomson Reuters Building
New Amsterdam Theater
ESPN Zone
Conde Nast Building
Knickerbocker Hotel Building
Bank of America Building
Bryant Park
WR Grace Building
Bryant Park Hotel
Bryant Park Cafe
Chrysler Building
Library Lions - Patience & Fortitude
New York Public Library
Lord & Taylor
Empire State Building
Little Korea aka Korea Town
Madison Square
51 Madison Avenue - New York Life Insurance
Company Building
41 Madison Avenue - site of Jerome Mansion
Herald Square
Macy's
Haier Building - former Greenwich Savings Bank
Keen's Steakhouse
Bryant Park
Statue of Dr. Jose Bonifacio Andrada
Statue of Benito Juarez
Hippodrome Building
International Center for Photography
Clubhouse Row - Hotel Algonquin et al
NHL Store
William Jenkins Worth Cenotaph - obelisk
Madison Square Park
Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower
Shake Shack
William Seward Statue
Flatiron Building
Ladies Mile District
Parsons School of Design of the New
School University
Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University
Forbes Gallery
Forbes Magazine Headquarters
First Presbyterian Church
Church of the Ascension (Episcopal)
Washington Square Arch
University Place
Grace Episcopal Church
Astor Place
Bayard-Condict Building
Cable Building
The Wall by Forrest Meyers
Prada Flagship store designed by Rem Kohlhaas
Bloomingdales SoHo branch
Top Shop/Top Man store
Haughwout Building
International Culinary Academy/French
Culinary Institute with L'Ecole Restaurant
Canal Street
Chinatown Information Kiosk
Manhattan Bridge
Dumbo district
George Westinghouse Vocational High School
911 Headquarters
WNYE Radio & Television - New York City Department of
Education Radio & Television studios
New York Technical College of the City University of New York
Brooklyn General Post Office
Fox Cable News Building
Diamond District
McGraw Hill Building
1251 Sixth Avenue - former Exxon Building
Barclays Capital Building - formerly Lehman Brothers HQ
Colony Records
Brill Building
Ambassador Theater
Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel
Hershey Store
M&M Store
Morgan Stanley HQ
W Times Square Hotel
Museum of Sex
Madison Square
Marble Collegiate Church
Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner")
Theodore Roosevelt United States Federal Courthouse for the
Eastern District of New York
Cadman Plaza
Brooklyn War Memorial (World Wars I & II)
Old Fulton Street
Brooklyn Eagle Warehouse
Grimaldi's Pizzeria
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
River Cafe
Fulton Ferry Landing
Continental Army Evacuation (August 29, 1776) Marker
Fulton Ferry marker
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry railing inscription
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Atlantic Avenue
Sahadi Imports
Damascus Bakery
Former St. Vincent's Home for Boys
Brooklyn House of Detention
Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting House
Kings County Supreme Court
Brooklyn Borough Hall
Brooklyn Bridge Marriott Hotel
New York Municipal Building
Woolworth Building
AIG (former Cities Service) Building
70 Pine Street
Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse for the
Southern District of New York Hong Kong Bank Building
10 Downing Street
Winston Churchill Square
Father Demo Square
Blue Note Jazz Club
3rd Street Basketball Courts
Golden Swan Gardens
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Jefferson Market Courthouse Library
New York Foundling Hospital
Siegel-Cooper Building - Bed, Bath & Beyond, TJ Maxx and
Filene's Basement
Grand Lodge of the Masons (71 West 23rd Street)
Manhattan Mall - former Gimbels Department Store site
Greeley Square
Horace Greeley statue
Herald Center
City University Graduate Center and Oxford
University Press (former B Altman Dept. Store)
Want an entirely different NightLife experience? Get involved in the VIP nightlife Tour Tickets include: Express entry into the Academy and access to NightLife event 30-minute private reception and two complimentary cocktails per guest Complimentary light bites A one-hour, behind-the-scenes tour with private viewing of the Vault—home to highlights of the Academy's renowned gem and mineral collection Interactions with Academy researchers in the Project Lab A reserved pass for the 8:30 pm Planetarium show Anyone yearning to geek out inside a multimillion-dollar science museum with the added bonus of booze should head to Golden Gate Park on Thursdays for NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences. Since 2009, the Academy has stayed open late once a week to give the 21+ crowd full run of the place, with an ever-changing series of themed events and several temporary bars spread throughout the gigantic building. Entertainment / Music Multiple DJs and/or live bands performing in a variety of styles tied to the night’s theme, from house to swing to everything else under the sun. One hundred thousand square-foot museum packed with incredible exhibits, aquariums, a replica of a rain forest, and the largest all-digital projection screen on the planet in the planetarium. Food / Miscellaneous Food stands offer a handful of snacks and entrées that can change weekly but usually include items like pork buns, chicken with fries, and vegetarian dishes. Private lounge available for rental. What to Wear / Dress Code Casual to trendy: everything from white t-shirts and jeans to dolled up duds. Hot Nights / When to Go Only open on Thursdays, but patrons should arrive early to avoid the lines and to check out the rainforest, which closes at 20.00
We'll leave the hotel at around 09:30 and head for the fascinating Tzotzil Maya settlement of San Juan Chamula, famous for its unique religious practices blending Catholic and Maya beliefs. During our tour, we'll learn about the culture and traditions of this remarkable community. We visit first their atmospheric cemetery with its Maya crosses spread out across a hill. And from there we'll wander through the village to the main church of the community. Our next stop, San Lorenzo Zinacatan, is another Tzotzil-speaking community. This is one of the most colourful communities in the highlands, and this can be seen in the brilliant red, blue and purple clothing embroidered with large flowers worn by the local people. We'll visit the main church of the community and we'll also meet local people with the chance to buy some of their beautiful work. hen on the way back we we will go on a guided tour of the beautiful colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas before arriving back at our hotel at around 14:30.
Shearwater is a classic Newport-style schooner yacht, only recently recognized as a national landmark in 2009. The vessel was built by Rice Brother Corporation in East Boothbay, Maine, back in a time when yachting was a rare combination of elegance and adventure; Rice Bros. were well known for building luxury pleasure yachts and produced some 4,000 hulls over a period of 64 years. The keel was laid down on January 4, 1929 and a news clip from the Boothbay Register reflects alongside a photograph "Tyler Hodgon at the old Tide Mill is getting out timbers for the schooner to be built at Rice’s. Vessel to be built of native white oak." Traditionally built from hand-hewn native white oak, she was the last boat to be constructed at that yard - likely due to the ensuing Great Depression brought on by the Stock Market Crash that occurred later that autumn. East Boothbay was a small coastal town with shipbuilding being its only industry. About 40 workmen were employed for the construction of SHEARWATER. Her designer Theodore Donald Wells was born in Hudson Falls, N Y on October 22, 1875. He was a naval architect and marine engineer, a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and also the Institute of Naval Architects London. His education included post-graduate work at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He began his career as a member of the firm Herreshoff and Wells, N. Y. City in 1902. Working with Herreshoff no doubt had an influence on his designs, which bear similarities to many of the famous Herreshoff designed yachts of that time. From 1903 to 1907 he worked for Wintringham and Wells and then began practicing his profession under his own name. Mr. Wells joined the Navy Department in March 1917 and became Superintending Constructor of the Baltimore District U. S. N. Notable yachts designed and constructed under his supervision are "Viking" a 272 foot steel motor yacht built for George F. Baker in 1929 by Newport News and "Karina" a three masted schooner built for Robert E. Tod in 1932 by Staten Island Shipbuilding. Mr. Tod was a well-known offshore yachtsman as was his former yacht ‘Thistle", which competed in the Emperors Cup ocean race. SHEARWATER was launched on May 4, 1929 and photographs in the Boothbay Register reflect her graceful and elegant lines. Her first Captain, Leon Esterbrook of Edgarton, MA, arrived to take charge of the fitting out. Her owner Charles E Dunlap was a member of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, NY and this became SHEARWATER’s first homeport after her completion in late September 1929. It was there in Oyster Bay that she first started to thrill those who sailed in luxury aboard her and those who were privileged to crew her on race day. Since her launching and documentation in Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts in 1929, she has had a colorful history and has been carefully maintained and restored to standards that few contemporary vessels are able to match and is truly a piece of American Maritime History. On November 7, 1942 SHEARWATER was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration and became a member of The United States Coast Guard’s Coastal Picket Patrol during World War Two. She was painted gray and bore the numbers CG67004. Based at Little Creek, Virginia she patrolled the waters east of the Chesapeake Bay entrance and south towards Cape Hatteras. Her skipper during that period reflected on how they used their free time while out on submarine patrol to race against other yachts and in his own words "sailed in tandem with the schooner Lord Jim, racing in and out of port, up and down the east coast and winning." She was designed and built as a gaff rigged schooner but during this period was changed to a Marconi rig. She carries over 2,550 square feet while under full sail. A true veteran world cruiser, she first transited the Panama Canal in July 1946 and in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s completed a two and a half-year global circumnavigation. In December 1971 Mrs. John B. Thayer of Rosemont, wife of a former trustee and treasurer, donated SHEARWATER to the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Environmental Medicine. She was used by the university as a laboratory for research on physiological responses to the stresses of living and working underwater. Captained by James Shearson, she was fitted with compressors, generators, monitoring instruments and a small decompression chamber. She has participated in many Ancient Mariner and Classic yacht races in U S waters as well as racing in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand while on her circumnavigation in the early 1980’s. It is rumored she was once dismasted in the famous Newport to Bermuda race. She was last raced by the current owners in San Diego in May 1995 in the American Schooner Cup and finished second overall. She entered the yacht charter industry in 1966 whilst on the West Coast sailing to the Channel Islands and was again used to generate income to keep her shipshape while owned by the University of Pennsylvania. During the chartering industry’s infancy in the Caribbean, SHEARWATER was known as the " Queen of the Fleet". Today she continues this tradition offering the most unique sailing experience and has passed rigid Coast Guard inspections and can carry up to 49 passengers. We welcome you to join us for an excellent opportunity to experience the ambiance of a vintage sailing vessel while delighting in the splendors of The Manhattan sky-line, the Statue of Liberty or the beauty of the oceans beyond.
