Los Angeles - 19.02.2013

On the 19th of February at around 10 pm i left the Fiji islands and i arrived in Los Angeles California on the same day at around 12 o'clock noon. This was the first time in my life that i ever traveled backwards in time. The security control at the airport was anoying: first i had to wait 1.5 hours at the passport control, and then i got into an extra security check where they unpacked my whole backpack and analyzed every single part of it. So after a long time in the airport of LA i finally left the airport at around 3 pm. I guess at around 4 or 5 pm i arrived at my hostel in LA which was near the Hollywood Boulevard. I was so tired from the flight that i slept for the rest of the day. On top of that, i somehow had become sick during the flight. It seemed to be some kind of flu.

When i woke up i had a real sore throat. I went down to the kitchen to have some tea. There i met a guy from japan, from china and from austria. I got into a conversation with them and they told me that they were planning to go to the grand canyon soon. They also told me that they had rented a car.
We talked until late midnight, and well in the end we figured out that i might come with them to the grand canyon , because the canyon was something i've wanted to see anyway, too.

On the next day i had breakfast, where i met the people from the day before. I still felt a bit sick. They asked me whether i wanted to come with them to the beach. I had planned something else, but spontaneously decided to come with them, and blew my plans in the wind for this day. So we went together to Venice Beach and to the beach in Santa Monica. After that we went to a place to watch the Hollywood sign :). I would have liked to touch it. But it's not possible to hike closer to this sign.

After watching this sign and taking some photos, we went to the Griffith Observatory, which was really interesting. From there you have a beautiful sight all over the city and also the sunset could be seen quite nice. On this day i unfortunately forgot my camera in the hostel. But the others took lots of photos. So i will upload some of them some day.

On my 3rd day in LA i felt really horribly sick. The flu had become a lot worse. I nevertheless tried to motivate myself to do something. So i decided to walk along the walk of fame, which is settled in the Hollywood Boulevard - only about 100 meters away from the hostel.
While walking through town i noticed that people were building up stuff for the oscars event.
I found a nice shopping centre from where i could see the hollywood sign :) ! .

hollywood sign as seen from a shopping centre in hollywood boulevard

After taking a picture of the hollywood sign, i walked on and ran into some people who were dressed up as movie charakters. I had heard before that these people were homeless people , who dressed up as movie characters, in order to get some tip. I took some photos with some of these people and gave them a nice tip.

me and a movie character at hollywood boulevard

me and darth vader and a clone warrior at hollywood boulevard :)