Fuzzy Bus

What city in the world has at its center 843 acres devoted to nature, to trees and lakes and animals? Central Park in New York is the only one that comes immediately to mind, a place so large that it’s possible to visit New York and spend most of your time either in the park or on its periphery, considering that it’s ringed also by some of the finest museums and restaurants on the planet. It makes sense then to book a nearby room , in order to take full advantage of the natural world inside an immense rectangle of skyscrapers.

To orient yourself to the park, you might try a Central Park Walking Tour , which combines a number of features, such as maps and podcasts, and interactive guides, which will take you to specific features of the park. You’ll be given information about how the park was conceived and built and pointing out the best places to take pictures. There are also downloadable PDF maps and MP3 files which means you can carry your guide with you as you lose yourself in this gigantic public space.

The tours offered vary from Family Tours to an Arts and Architecture Tour. In the Family Tour, you’ll learn about such sites as the zoo (and children’s zoo), statues of Hans Christian Andersen, Alice in Wonderland, and Balto, Alaska’s heroic sled dog, and Conservatory Water, which you’ll find next to Fifth Avenue amid the journeys of miniature sailboats. The Arts and Architecture Tour includes the Belvedere Castle, which serves as a weather station, the Swedish Cottage, a marionette theater, and the Obelisk, known as Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500 year old monument from Egypt in the middle of a park that is itself 151 years old. If you go on this walk, you’ll be entering a national historic landmark, which was declared as such in 1963, and joining the park’s 25 millions visitors a year.

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