Miami. Attractions.
South Beach is the most thrilling area with its astounding colourful Art Deco District Buildings along the Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District.
Ocean Drive thrives with the hippest beach life, cafes and boutiques which run alongside the fabulous white beach, with the stunningly renovated Park Central Art Deco Building.
Twelve Mile Miami Beach is an astounding sight and its purpose is to protect Biscayne Bay from the Atlantic Ocean for us to have fun!
Downtown Miami is full of life and home to the fantastic Miami Art Museum.
Apart from the excellent exhibitions, every Thursday night there is music and DJs.
There are many cultural centres such as Fleglar Street and The Metro-Dade Cultural Centre.
Miami Beach Botanical Gardens is an unexpected delight of palm trees flowers and ponds to bring calm in this city of buzz.
Downtown Miami has the Bayfront where there is lots to do around the waterfront. There is Bayfront Park, and Bayfront Park Amphitheatre which is fun on July 4th and New Years Eve. Bayside Market is crammed with world famous chain stores for the shopaholics who suffer withdrawal symptoms from chain stores familiar in their home town.
Little Havana has the Miami River running through it. It is a shambolic lost area which has a fascinating atmosphere of people loading boats to head for the Caribbean. Expensive yachts drop anchor there. Delicious seafood restaurants are extremely popular. Probably best to avoid Little Havana at night though.
Haulover Beach is ok for surfing in the breaks between 5th St and South Pointe.
A good swimming beach is on 85TH Surfside and has lifeguards.
Quiet beaches are around 53rd Street and around Matheson Hammock Park.
Coconut Grove is a special place by the sea. See the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens with the extravagant Italian Renaissance style villa with 19th century furniture, tapestries, and paintings.
Calle Ocho in the heart of Little Havana is the place to experience Cuban and Latin life, cigar shops in particular!
Good for children is Matheson Hammock Park with its closed tidal pools, crocodile spotting areas and the lovely waterfront restaurant the Redfish Grill.