Monday, September 12, 2011

Washington DC National Mall

Washington DC National Mall is one of the resorts in the United States. This place is an open area to be used as national park, located in downtown Washington, that is, between Independence and Constitution, from the Capitol to Lincoln meeting rooms Memoriam.

The park is managed by the National Mall and Memorial Parks unit and is actually a part of the National Park Service (NPS) or national parks service in United States Get There. This park was established in 1965 and initially also aims to protect some of the old gardens that have previously been there and managed by NPS.

This city park is one of favorite tourist attractions, annually receives visitors of approximately 24 million people. One given the historical value of this park is quite a lot of opportunity to commemorate the legacy of various U.S. presidents, honoring the courage and sacrifice of war veterans.

Which is characteristic of a garden are the shady trees and is very unique, the tulips are planted in plots and grouped by color. Many different types of tulips growing in the garden iantaranya Greigii, Fosteriana and Kaufmanniana. This unusual tulips bloom from April until the first week until May. Because the complete collection of tulips in the garden, then the area is overgrown tulip tulips are called libraries.

Not only tulips alone library that you can visit this place, there are several other parts of the park can be visited, including the Constitution Gardens, the Tower of the old post office, John Ericsson's memorial monument or memorial monument Gorge Mason. Do not lose too many historic sites like the Washington monument, memorial fighters Vietnam Veterans Memorial or the Lincoln.
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