Things to see and do Georgia

Located right next to Centennial Park, this gigantic aquarium opened in 2005. It is from one of the unmissable Atlanta. In this volume of several million cubic metres of water, you will discover an impressive sea fauna: white whales, whale sharks, dolphins, penguins… the list is long.

It is here that the Olympic Games of Atlanta were played in 1996. It is also here as the terrible attack committed by Eric Robert Rudolph during the Games took place to express its fight against “international socialism”, with an assessment of a death and 111 casualties. Today, it is here that CNN Center, World of Coca-Cola, Georgia Aquarium and the ferris wheel SkyView Atlanta. It is as you can attend concerts and festivals throughout the year, especially in the western part transformed into a public garden.

These places are one of the characteristics of Savananh. Of the 24 perfectly aligned original places the ones by reports with the others, 22 remain and contribute to create the so particular atmosphere of the city. The missing public gardens disappeared as the transformation from the city. Among them, Calhoun Square is the only one which still preserves all its original buildings.

You walk of place in place to impregnate you places and to observe the notable differences from one campsite to another. Namely that Chippewa Square is the place where the famous scene of the film Forrest Gump was turned where the naive hero its history tells, sitted on a bench, a box of chocolates on the knees. Do not seek the bench in question, it is not there any more.

The Coca-Cola Company, the very famous multinational, symbol of the American power, sits at Atlanta. In World of Coca-Cola, you penetrate in the wonderful world of famous drink, created at the end of the 19th century by Pemberton pharmacist, in Atlanta even... The visit takes place on two levels, with several rooms of projection and an amphitheater 4D. On hundred meters squares, you will discover the history of the brand, the room of the secrecies, a chain of congestion and hundreds of derived Coca-Cola, energy of an Argentinian retro truck to works exposed in Pop Culture Gallery. A Cola Store Coke will accommodate you obviously at the end of this visit.

West Point Lake is a huge water reserve formed by West Point Dam on the classes of Chattahoochee River. Surrounded by dense forests and green hills, it extends on 35 miles on the level from the border between Georgia and Alabama. It is opportunity for the lovers fish, canoe or observe the deer tribe which pullulates in the region. LaGrange and West Point are the two closest cities.

The Sidney Lanier Bridge is a magnificent book on the Brunswick River opened in 2003. It is the most beautiful cable-stayed bridge in Georgia and the view over the surroundings is superb. It is 2 371 metres long.

According to legend, love Indians found themselves under the magnificent branches of this oak. Several times years, it is impressive.