Unpretentious metropolitan style meets stunning natural beauty…Jacksonville captures the essence of a lifestyle and landscape reflecting the real Florida. Discover the heart of the city and endless stretches of pristine beaches, while exploring the region’s unique shopping, numerous dining options and warm Southern hospitality. With a moderate temperature year round, Jacksonville is home to numerous festivals, national and international sporting events, exceptional golf courses and world-class art and culture. Get to know Jacksonville. Where Florida Begins.
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Days Inn Florida
Days Inn hotels offer great value all over the Florida map. Whether your Florida vacation brings you to the golf courses, the amusement parks, or the sandy beaches, there is sure to be a Days Inn hotel nearby. Enjoy great savings with our Sunsational Rates at participating locations.
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Travel Adventures
Travel Adventures provides unforgettable educational travel experiences for over 50,000 students each year. Since 1987, our experienced staff has been designing curriculum-rich itineraries for educators in every academic discipline.
Travel Adventures plans student tours to every major US city and several international destinations and is the only student tour provider to offer the Teacher’s Free & Easy™ and the Student’s Safe & Secure™ programs.
In addition to safety as our number one priority, our focus is making student travel educational and fun for students while ensuring that trip planning is easy for teachers.
Florida is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with visitors heading to ‘The Sunshine State’ in search of fun, sun and thrills. Walt Disney World, Magic Kingdom Park and Busch Gardens are just a few of the man-made attractions for which the State is famed. But there is more to Florida than Mickey Mouse and white-knuckle rides. Winding waterways, freshwater lakes, hills, forests, exciting cities, 13,560km (8426 miles) of coast, countless bays, inlets and islands, and a legendary climate make this one of the most popular States in the USA. World Travel Guide
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Florida has something for everyone -- St. Augustine for the history buffs, lakes and oceans for the fishermen, beaches for anyone, South Beach in Miami for the jetsetters and hangers-on, professional sports, college sports (Go Noles!), shopping, fantastic seafood, and lots of theme parks thanks to the Mouse that roared. Just remember your sunscreen, and in the summer, your rain poncho or umbrella for the afternoon thunderstorms, although these have not been as frequent in recent years leading to drought conditions in many parts of the state. Virtualtourist.com User
First sighted by Don Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513, Florida was originally named La Florida, or Land of Flowers. Today, the climate of this southern state continues to encourage the growth of many exotic, sub-tropical and tropical plants. Because of the climate, Florida also calls numerous visitors to the pristine beaches that line the peninsula, from the eastern coast overlooking the Atlantic Ocean to the western beaches and panhandle areas that line the Gulf of Mexico. Off the mainland are thousands of island escapes, including the famous Florida Keys.
Florida's sandy beaches, stellar attractions, historic spaceport, ancient city, everglades, and coral keys are just waiting to be discovered.
See what it's like by visiting the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum around the corner from Titusville's Space View Park. A one-of-a-kind museum illustrating America's history in space exploration by displaying hundreds of rare photos, space patches and pins, space hardware, flight suits, shuttle tiles, bronzed handprints of Apollo and shuttle astronauts and miscellaneous memorabilia. The U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum on Florida’s Space Coast includes a reading library of space-oriented books, magazine articles, documents and mission directories as well as video tapes.
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Jacksonville's Museum of Science and History
The Museum of Science and History (MOSH) strives to increase the knowledge and understanding of the natural environment and history of Jacksonville as well as Northeast Florida. The MOSH focus on creating an awareness and appreciation of science and history through quality programs that stimulate and inspire learning in all visitors. Different exhibitions and events help to reach this goal and guarantee a time of fun and education for every visitor!
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Amelia Island – Excursion from Downtown Jacksonville
Amelia Island is known as Florida's Golden Isle. Resting just off the coast of northeast Florida, Amelia Island welcomes you to experience its rich, colorful history and breath-taking natural beauty. With 13-miles of beautiful beaches, abundant native wildlife, and pristine waters, this barrier island has long been a beloved destination for visitors and residents alike. In fact, Amelia was recently voted #6 among Top 10 North American Islands by Conde Nast Traveler's 2008 Reader's Choice Awards, making it the highest ranked island destination in Florida for two consecutive years. It's worth a visit! More about Amelia Island – Excursion from Downtown Jacksonville
Florida Heritage Book Festival
September 11th - 12th, 2009
Get literary at this celebration of the authors and books that chronicle the ethnic, social, and historical heritage of the Sunshine State. The festival will feature a wide array of events and activities including workshops, readings, and book signings by popular authors. Panel discussions will focus on the business of book publishing, as well as how-to sessions for aspiring authors. Except for a few ticketed events, including a motorized tour of the oldest city’s literary landmarks, all events are free and open to the public. The festival will be held at Flagler College and the Casa Monica Hotel in downtown St. Augustine.
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Marineland
Experience the thrill of swimming with dolphins at Marineland's Dolphin Conservation Center in beautiful St. Augustine, Florida. Enjoy these amazing animals through hands on opportunities; learn about dolphin anatomy, behavior, and the challenges they face in the wild. For those who prefer a little distance, watch dolphins swim, play, and interact with guests in programs. Available after hours for one of a kind dolphin weddings and parties with the pristine Atlantic coastline as backdrop to a day you will always remember.
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Flagler Beach Historical Museum
The City of Flagler Beach celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2000. As a result, the city established the Flagler Beach Historical Museum. The Museum is adjacent to City Hall and has been open since September 2001. The history of Flagler Beach and the way of life in Old Florida is showcased through old photographs, antique tools, newspapers, and other memorabilia from the early 1900's at this museum that also features archeological artifacts from the Bings Landing Park, fossils from the Intracoastal Waterway, and Indian tools from the surrounding area. Experience history from the Stone Age to the Space Age!
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Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge
Experience sea turtles in their natural habitat at Florida’s Space Coast. The twenty mile section of coastline from Melbourne Beach to Wabasso Beach in Florida is the most important nesting area for loggerhead sea turtles in the western hemisphere and the second most important nesting beach in the world. Twenty-five percent of all loggerhead sea turtle and Thirty-five percent of all green sea turtle nests in the United States occur in this twenty mile zone.
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Shopping at St. Johns Town Center
Jacksonville's newest and most talked about shopping destination - the St. Johns Town Center kicks the spring season offering the world’s finest retail, residential, hotel, and dining choices for Jacksonville area shoppers. Following the latest national trend in outdoor-oriented Main Street-style Town Centers, St. Johns spreads over several square blocks in the city's booming Deerwood/Tinseltown area. Shop, enjoy fine dining, and end your shopping extravaganza on a sweet note with an ice cream. Make sure to bring your girlfriends along to make this trip extra special!
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Anastasia State Park
Anastasia State Park welcomes hundreds of thousands visitors from all over the world to enjoy our natural and cultural treasures. At Anastasia you can enjoy camping, nature trails, beach time, water sports, and an archaeological site where coquina rock was mined to create the nearby fortress, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. Anastasia State Park, located just south of historic St. Augustine on Anastasia Island, has 4 miles of pristine beach, a tidal salt marsh, and maritime and upland hammock.
Camping, beach combing, swimming, fishing, picnicking, windsurfing, hiking, wildlife-viewing, canoeing and kayaking are popular activities.
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Travel Adventures
1175 S. Lapeer Road
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Florida's Space Coast offers some of the best fishing in the country! Few places in the world offer the variety of species found here. From big bass and crappie on the St. Johns River to giant redfish, trout and snook on the Indian River Lagoon to exciting billfish action offshore in the Atlantic, the Space Coast is hard to beat! Fishermen can decide between Deep Sea, Pier, Surf or River Fishing.
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What begins as the Treasure Coast, tracing Palm Beach's lifestyles of the rich and famous, moves on to Miami's South Beach and some of the best people-watching in the world, before ending in Key West, the southernmost point in the continental United States, and the final destination of all that is Florida.
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This final stretch of U.S. Highway 1 and State Road A1A could easily be a three-week tour, with adventures in art and culture, sports and entertainment, fine dining and late-night dancing. The only problem might be finding time to sleep. Read this and other driving tours
This final stretch of U.S. Highway 1 and State Road A1A could easily be a three-week tour, with adventures in art and culture, sports and entertainment, fine dining and late-night dancing. The only problem might be finding time to sleep. 
