USA – places of interest

In the USA there are many national parks. They represent one of the finest examples of nature conservation in the world. The first national park Yellowstone was founded in 1872. Another famous park is the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River located in the state of Arizona. The next wonderful places to see are the Niagara Falls and the five Great Lakes. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are joined by the Niagara River with its Falls. Or South Dakota’s Mt. Rushmore. You will find the sixty-feet-high heads of the four American presidents. G. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Th. Roosevelt and A. Lincoln. The heads were carved into a mountainside. Another place to visit is Cape Canaveral in Florida - a home to American space shuttles. In the USA you can also find Disneyland near Los Angeles and Disney World in Florida near Orlando. And of course many interesting cities, e.g. Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hollywood, Nashville - the home of American country music, Memphis - where Elvis Presley lived, Las Vegas or Miami in the "Sunshine State" of Florida