What you think about London before you got there? London bridge? or big head red army? Anyway, with my experience some places are recommended but you have to consider your situation. I just sharing with you some of my experience there:
1. Oyster card
After arriving first thing you have to do is to buy an Oyster card which like Touh n' Go in Malaysia. How much it does help? For example one trip underground train is £4, if you use Oyster is £1.50; Bus is £2 without Oyster but just £0.90 if you got it. It is more than 50% cheaper. So, you just pay £3 for deposit and use it during the trip and then refund back the deposit when you back, as simple as that!
2. Westminster
After you bought an Oyster, you have to take a little train map. With the map you can started to plan your trip. Westminster probably is a good place to start, almost all the famous attractions are nearby, by walking, along the Themes River you can reach from Wesrmister to London bridge. This was my first journey in London.
3. Tower Bridge
Before that I thought this bridge was called London Bridge, because of the rhyme: London Bridge is falling down, falling down......... Actually I were wrong, this bridge where 'falling' down is called Tower Bridge instead. Regarding the wikipedia the bascules are raised around 1000 times per year, so 1000/365=2.7 times per day. I was so lucky to see the bascules rose up on that day!
4. London eyes
Despite the old structures in city, London eye is the only new structure in the city. It huge, arrogant, and iconic. Some people may struggle whether wanna to pay £15.50 to take a tour, but what i am recommended is take the evening or night tour will be more worth. It is because the night view is amazing and give you a lot of surprising. On that day, we are the last tour and probably do not have many people during that time, so you no need to spend hour and hour to get a ticket or line up to the capsule.
5. Changing guards, Beckingham Palace
I've been waiting there for 1 hour, under the hot sun to see the most 'famous' show out of the palace. The changing guard really seem like a show that done purposely for tourists like me. But if you do not have any specified plan, you can wait the guard changing and have a walk in the park near by. By the way, please don't forget the changing just do once a day, 1130am. Don't miss it!
2 comments:
not really agree with you for the oyster card coz if u buy the travelcard, u can travel for unlimited times which is more worthy!
if you get a travel card the taping cost is £5.50, and Oyster card tapping price is almost there. So if i take trip less, the price not even reach that price, like me I use walk tour almost and just take few buses, not even reach £5. So Oyster card give you more feasibility. But if you really use transport a lot then use travel card is more worth la.
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