Old Town Trolley Tour, SD

Old town trolley tour is a hop-on hop-off tour that use a land vehicle which seems like the famous San Francisco's cable car. Definitely the vehicle is not a real cable car, since it uses a normal gasoline powered engine. Actually, we already familiar with the all objects spanned along the tour, but since we had free tickets for this tour, there wasn't any harm to join the tour. The tour started in maritime museum area, then cruised to the sea village (check our posting of seals tour), gaslamp area (check our posting of petco park), coronado beach (check our posting of coronado beach) , balboa park (check our posting of visiting museums in SD), and finally ended in old town historical park. We just hop-off at the Coronado beach to feel the warmth of summer white sands beach and at the Old Town area. The old town is actually considered as the birth place of entire california because it was the first place of US communities evolved, since US bought the california territory from Mexico. A lot of places in California was used to be Mexican military bases. After being transfered to US, the US army replace these bases with their soldiers and automatically the civilian groups began to live there, especially after the gold rush in 19 centuries. No wonder, many of the retained building in this area is seen like traditional Mexican properties. Currently, old town area is become one of a historic park of california and tourist can see the old fashion buildings, replica of county office, original setting of trial building and includes its jail, ancient sheriff office , or even the first school erected in California. For many tourists, old town area also a place to taste authentic mexican food along with their traditional arts, and also a place to find San Diego souvenirs.