Baltimore Road Trip (11th Jun)
Had my very first driving road trip to Baltimore on a lovely, peaceful Sunday (11th Jun). Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland and is about one to two hours away from Gaithersburg, where I’m at now. The drive to Baltimore was pretty straightforward, really quite enjoyable (except for a little scare when I had to make a major braking stunt on the highway!).
I went straight to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor where all the major attractions are. The Inner Harbor is quite a pretty place itself… Sunny and peaceful, you can see people with yachts boating into the harbor and just chilling in the sun there. The initial plan was to do the Maritime Museum and the National Aquarium… however, due to time constraints (a certain lazy ass woke up late), a decision was made to just do the National Aquarium.
Baltimore Inner Harbor... beautiful place!
The Baltimore Maritime Museum basically consists of several historic ships and landmarks in the Inner Harbor. So basically, a ticket will give you access into those ships. I’m actually very interested to get into USS Torsk, which is a submarine from WWII. However, I guess I’ll save the money and come back again and explore it properly next time!
USCGC Taney - Last surviving warship from Pearl Harbor
USS Torsk - submarine (as you can see!) from WWII
Hard Rock Baltimore!
Back to the Aquarium…the National Aquarium in Baltimore is the largest tourist attraction in the state of Maryland and is really the jewel of Baltimore. It has two main buildings, right by the harbor with a rooftop rainforest, a central ray pool (“Wings in the Water” exhibit), multiple-story shark tanks and a really good dolphin show.
I was really impressed with the shark tanks where you walk down a gentle decline over 4 storeys of tanks and the 4 storeys actually simulate an ocean environment with corals and smaller fishes on the upper levels to those really big sharks in the dark bottom level!
Baltimore's Jewel - Baltimore National Aquarium
Wings in the Water... beautiful! Baltimore National Aquarium
The dolphin show was also another highlight of the aquarium. The dolphins are really intelligent and well-trained! I was really impressed and actually managed to get some good clips of those dolphin stunts!
With this pretty good trip… I can probably move on to slightly further trips now! In fact, the plan is to drive up to meet two of my uni friends in New York City (4 hrs drive) and then move from there to Niagara Falls (another 4-6 hrs?). I’ll definitely be blogging about this trip soon!
I went straight to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor where all the major attractions are. The Inner Harbor is quite a pretty place itself… Sunny and peaceful, you can see people with yachts boating into the harbor and just chilling in the sun there. The initial plan was to do the Maritime Museum and the National Aquarium… however, due to time constraints (a certain lazy ass woke up late), a decision was made to just do the National Aquarium.
Baltimore Inner Harbor... beautiful place!
The Baltimore Maritime Museum basically consists of several historic ships and landmarks in the Inner Harbor. So basically, a ticket will give you access into those ships. I’m actually very interested to get into USS Torsk, which is a submarine from WWII. However, I guess I’ll save the money and come back again and explore it properly next time!
USCGC Taney - Last surviving warship from Pearl Harbor
USS Torsk - submarine (as you can see!) from WWII
Hard Rock Baltimore!
Back to the Aquarium…the National Aquarium in Baltimore is the largest tourist attraction in the state of Maryland and is really the jewel of Baltimore. It has two main buildings, right by the harbor with a rooftop rainforest, a central ray pool (“Wings in the Water” exhibit), multiple-story shark tanks and a really good dolphin show.
I was really impressed with the shark tanks where you walk down a gentle decline over 4 storeys of tanks and the 4 storeys actually simulate an ocean environment with corals and smaller fishes on the upper levels to those really big sharks in the dark bottom level!
Baltimore's Jewel - Baltimore National Aquarium
Wings in the Water... beautiful! Baltimore National Aquarium
The dolphin show was also another highlight of the aquarium. The dolphins are really intelligent and well-trained! I was really impressed and actually managed to get some good clips of those dolphin stunts!
With this pretty good trip… I can probably move on to slightly further trips now! In fact, the plan is to drive up to meet two of my uni friends in New York City (4 hrs drive) and then move from there to Niagara Falls (another 4-6 hrs?). I’ll definitely be blogging about this trip soon!
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