Are you looking for a destination to settle down, to rest, to dream, to relax, to enjoy mild temperatures? A place where you can live as much day as night, according to your moods and desires? A place where pretty girls are in bikinis, body-built boys, impeccable tans, medium mojitos? A place where the sun is blazing, the sea turquoise and the sand white? This dream paradise may just be Miami. And this magical place comes with many other surprises because each neighbourhood has its own personality. To discover them at their best, nothing is better than being accompanied by locals. That's what Airbnb is proposing with jet-ski or paddle sessions, bike rides, rollerblading or street art discovery, salsa classes, etc.
Miami Beach, its Art Deco district and its stars..
It's all about atmosphere, so we're spoilt for choice. South Beach, or SoBe as it is affectionately known, has for it the vastness of its beaches, the liveliness of its bars, the eccentricity and inventiveness of its nightclubs and the beauty of its Art Deco architecture
The famous Art Deco District reminds us that the city was one of the jewels of this architectural style in the 1930s and 1940s. Some 800 two- to three-storey buildings offer a pastel decor amidst the palm trees of Miami Beach. A rich heritage of the inter-war period, this district was classified as a historic site to curb the expansion of newer buildings. In addition to the dominant pastel colours, the signs and their neon lights add a glitz to the geometric facades. Welcome to the American dream! The nightlife is very intense and anything trendy has to show up in SoBe. Dance clubs, bars, restaurants, beaches: you always get restless under the sun. Beauty, i.e. pure physical mute beauty, is the local currency. As for the names of designers, they are completely idolized in clothing stores at crazy prices or in any building under renovation. Miami's great food revelation is Cuban cuisine. The Cubans, who make up the largest Latino community in the city, serve it in large numbers and especially con sabor. And what a taste! When they use garlic, you can see it, smell it, taste it and smell it.
Other legendary corners
Outside of South Beach, Little Haiti exhibits the picturesque of its painted walls while Wynwood is bubbling with creativity with its abundant street art murals. For its part, Design District lines up Miami's most beautiful luxury boutiques and Little Havana smells like Cuban coffee. Downtown offers its museums and metromover, Coral Gables, the charm of its beautiful residential houses, Coconut Grove, its marina and trendy bars. Not forgetting the numerous malls, with their hundreds of shops that are a delight for shopping addicts. It is here and nowhere else that magic, dream, fiction and nature blend together with disconcerting elegance.
The Keys and Caribbean charm
On the outskirts of Miami, nature takes back its rights. The Keys, these islands bordered by the ocean on one side and Florida Bay on the other, stretch out in length. This is the southernmost part of the American continent. Consisting of a string of islands, islets, limestone reefs and corals of various sizes, they stretch 180 miles from Key Largo in the north to the Dry Tortugas at 86 miles north of Havana in the south. The Keys are a narrow strip of land between the ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, usually bordered by mangroves or tropical vegetation. The atmosphere is radically different from the hustle and bustle of Miami or Orlando. Here America offers itself differently, in this paradisiacal atmosphere. A true haven of peace, Key West retains the charm of old Caribbean cities built by pirates, sponge fishermen or smugglers. It owes its fame to the many celebrities who came to live there: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, President Truman and even the Beatles who came to rest there as early as 1964. Extraordinary place of tolerance, the city welcomes a very diverse population with a predilection for people outside the norms, even outside the system. Nevertheless, it remains one of the quietest cities in the United States. Although it has never distinguished itself in any struggle for independence, its inhabitants call it the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys, because here freedom is above all a state of mind. The Keys are the ideal place to enjoy the beauty of the ocean through many activities such as diving, snorkeling or simply a boat trip. The other national sport is the observation of the sunset with different colours, reflections and shapes every evening.
The Everglades and their incredible ecosystem
The Everglades National Park is a charming place where land, water and sky mingle in an immense green landscape, where vegetation changes with altitude, and where a large number of birds and other wildlife find refuge. It is almost exclusively a biological park dedicated to the preservation of a complex and precisely ordered life mechanism. The interface between temperate and subtropical climates gives rise to a rich diversity of species found nowhere else in the world. It is the largest park in the eastern Rocky Mountains. It stretches over 137 miles of coastline and more than 565,000 hectares. A large body of water flows slowly through the porous limestone bedrock and follows its course to the sea, rather than embracing the well-defined valleys. Most of the park is covered by water during the rainy season, while in the dry season, water is concentrated in the few open areas where wildlife congregate. One of the park's main resources is its many varieties of plants: 1,000 species of plants, including 25 varieties of orchids and 120 species of trees, as well as more than 400 species of birds, 25 species of mammals, 60 species of reptiles and 125 species of fish. An extraordinary place for all nature and hiking lovers.
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