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Georgetown’s pretty gardens and houses, a delightful neighborhood to stroll through
Afternoon meant to evoke the origins of and giant pandas on the Asia
Stroll along U Street, once known the city. Wander through the Trail and the Sumatran tigers
as Black Broadway. Audiences enchanting Sculpture Garden in Great Cats. At the Great
went wild when Duke Ellington to the Pavilion Café, a charming Ape House orangutans scale
performed at the Lincoln spot for lunch. a 400-ft (130-m) “O Line.” Have
Theatre (see p142). He lived lunch at the Mane Restaurant
nearby at 1805 and 1816 Afternoon or at one of the snack bars.
13th Street. Visit the African Now head to cobblestoned
American Civil War Memorial Georgetown (see pp122–9). Afternoon
and Museum, honoring black If shopping is your ultimate Travel via metro to the National
soldiers (see p135). End the day goal, go to M Street or Wisconsin Air and Space Museum (see
in style in Georgetown with Avenue for numer ous galleries pp64–7). Discover facts such as
dinner and jazz at Blues Alley and shops and a range of stylish the cruising speed of the Spirit of
(see pp198–9). goods for sale – lamps, Italian St. Louis, or the reason Skylab was
ceramics, prints, and cutting- covered with a coating of gold.
Art and Shopping edge fashion. To finish, have Catch a film at the IMAX theatre,
tea in the Garden Terrace at where you can experience flying
the Four Seasons hotel (see without leaving the ground.
Two Adults allow at least $35 p178), or have a drink at Alternatively, head for the
• National Gallery of Art Washington Harbour while Washing ton Monument (see
watching the boats (see p124), p80) and take the elevator to
• Lunch in the Pavilion Café
then stroll through the the top for the spectacular view
• Georgetown Shopping
Georgetown waterfront (advance booking required).
• Washington Harbour park next to the harbor. Finish off at The Kennedy Center
(see pp120–21) in Foggy Bottom,
A Family Day for free entertainment on the
Morning Millennium Stage at 6pm.
To experience the full scope
of art covered at the National Family of Four allow at least
Gallery of Art (see pp60–63), $55
visit both the West Building • Visit the National Zoo
(13th–19th century European • National Air and
and American art) and the Space Museum
East Building. Take time to
reflect on the exhibits and rest • Washington Monument
your legs by having a coffee
break at the Espresso Bar on
the Concourse level. Outside, Morning
in the Garden Court (north Start early at the National
side of East Building), find the Zoological Park (see pp140–41),
Andy Goldsworthy installation checking at its Visitor Center for
entitled Roof, a series of five feeding times, talks, and training Washington Monument is a striking sight
concentrical bricked domes sessions. See clouded leopards from the ground

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