Boston in pictures
By: heretic (Aashish Dutta Koirala)
Welcome to one of the liveliest, most beautiful and "beerful" cities of all. Welcome to Beantown. These pictures come together to form the apparatus of my attempt to show you just some of the sights I saw during my frequent visits to Boston during my fourteen-week stay in Waltham.
Let us start at Cambridge-- in a liberal melting pot known as Harvard Square.
Across the street is Harvard University and John Harvard in sculpture.
Fill yourself up for the journey with beer as freshly brewed as it can get, in the John Harvard's Brewhouse.
Walk down Massachussetts Avenue to Kendall Square. Look around and you see MIT.
Walk on to get to the Charles River basin bridge. Look at the Boston skyline and feel the strong wind almost blow you away. Personally, it is my experience that this is better around midnight after you've had a few Johnny Blacks. In any case, cross the bridge into downtown Boston.
Welcome to the Back Bay. This beautiful area is built entirely on land reclaimed from the sea.
Get a cocktail, chat someone up and feast your eyes on the beautiful people that occupy the elegant lounge they call Vox Populi.
Walk to the base of Hancok Tower, Boston's tallest building, and look straight up.
Walk a few blocks to Prudential Tower, one of the most prominent of Boston's landmarks, and Boston's second tallest building.
Inside the Prudential Tower, take the elevator to the 50th floor. Welcome to the Skywalk Observatory. Take in a 360-degree view of all of Boston.
Go up two floors to the 52nd floor. This is "Top of the Hub", the "highest" restaurant/bar in Boston. Treat yourself to a refreshing mug of Sam Adams, Boston's famous local brew.
If you're in the mood for some "symphony", walk around and you'll run into Boston Pops.
Personally, I prefer a little scotch and jazz. Sneak in to the homely Wally's Cafe-- undoubtedly Boston's best jazz bar. The calibre of music will simply blow you away.
Don't forget to stop by the Museum of Fine Arts-- check out the Egyptian section, my personal favorite. The Cherokee warrior on the Spirit Horse isn't too bad, either.
If you're lucky, catch the Red Sox play the Yankees at Fenway Park.
Try the elegant sports bars and rock bars around Fenway Park at Lansdowne Street before or after the game.
Dance the night away at Avalon-- arguably Boston's best nightclub.
Walk a few blocks up to Copley Square. Try to catch a glimpse of the "emerald necklace", a chain of nine beautiful parks.
One of the bigger "emeralds" in the necklace would be the Boston Public Gardens.
Walk on to Boston Common-- America's oldest park.
Drop by the Orpheum Theater to see who's playing. If you're lucky, it might just be Joe Satriani-- accompanied here by Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci.
Walk southwards to the Theater District. A movie? Or an opera, perhaps?
Welcome to Chinatown.
Walk a bit north to get to the beautiful "practically pedestrian" area of Downtown Crossing.
Get to Tremont Street and head north to Faneuil Hall. Welcome to beautiful North Square.
Check out the full-of-life Faneuil Hall marketplace.
Have your choice of foods from all over (or maybe a little stand-up comedy) at Quincy Market.
Come outside with your hot dog and catch the out-of-this-world street performers.
Or maybe catch a free concert!
Rest a while around Columbus park.
Head over to the harbor.
Take a boat to beautiful Spectacle Island and back.
Drop by the New England Aquarium and be amazed at the variety of aquatic life. Don't miss the penguins and the 3D movie at the Simons IMAX theatre.
Walk a few blocks to Union Street and let ecstasy overcome you as you look at the long chain of bars that line up the street.
Get into Bell-In-Hand and make sure you order a "tall" glass of old Sam Adams.
Look out the window at the Holocaust Memorial. Six towers in honor of the six million victims of Hitler's madness.
Go north still up Hanover Street. Welcome to Little Italy. Try to spot the guy playing the Godfather theme in the accordion.
Make sure you get a rum-cake at Mike's Pastry.
So much for the North End. Walk a while back to Cambridge, to the Museum of Science.
Catch the laser shows (Laser Metallica, Laser Pink Floyd, Laser Led Zeppelin- the works!). In any case, don't forget to catch a show at the incredible Mugar OMNI dome theatre.
Take the orange line down to South Boston. Stop at Jamaica Plains and take the Sam Adams brewery tour. Be simply amazed as you try the variety of Boston's best brew.
Head on down to Franklin Park Zoo. Check out the animals.
Hop back on the orange line and take the blue line to East Boston. Get some peace of mind (or just jog for a while) at Revere Beach.
Not beach enough for you? Catch the red line down to Quincy and head over to Wollaston Beach.
Want to see more of the sea and the shore? Take a train up to Rockport.
Now, go sit somewhere and be sad for fourteen weeks have gone by and you will soon have to leave.
Picture courtesy: Aashish Koirala, Dilip Suwal, Surendra Adhikari, Dipesh Nepal, Chris Stevens.
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Comments
Superb !!
I wish to visit the place one day...
By: Amir | July 16, 2007 03:47 AM
Great snaps!
By: Rudra Pandey | July 16, 2007 03:51 AM
Interesting Commentary
By: GBG | July 16, 2007 05:12 AM
Nice commentary.I feel being myself in Boston while I was reading this article.
By: Pooja | July 16, 2007 08:28 PM
Thanks for the Photo and nice comments, makes me feel I virtually traveled Boston.
By: nishchal | July 16, 2007 10:22 PM
Thanks for the virtual tour...
I wonder who was that lucky to snap Satch, Gilbert and Petrucci at once!
By: dhilung | July 17, 2007 03:21 AM
I was, dude. G3 Live in Concert (Joe Satriani, John Petrucci and Paul Gilbert) was on in Boston on April 6, 2007. I still thank my stars!!
By: heretic | July 17, 2007 05:17 AM
You need a zoo like this in home also. so lively!!
By: youneedazoo | July 18, 2007 10:22 PM
Nepalese will be greedy of those pictures as Nepal because it will be another 500 years before we can see sceneries like these in Nepal.
By: greed | July 20, 2007 07:53 AM
Nice pictures. A very well put together presentation too.
By: Greg | July 20, 2007 12:26 PM
greed
Why generalize Nepalese like that in a miniscule diameter?
Nepal is different and the sceneries and natural resources it possess, Boston can not come even close.
There are far more better cities on earth than Boston, physically, structurally aesthetically and weatherwise.
However, the photographs are well taken and would have been better with higher resolutions.
By: Anonymous | July 20, 2007 02:11 PM
Great!!
Must have enjoyed to the fullest at G3. Vai is missing though.
By: dhilung | July 24, 2007 11:20 PM