Would you like to know about a summer travel destination that offers a tremendous amount of diversity in the vacation opportunities and activities?  Summer vacation travel means different things to different people, that’s for sure.  Some of us want to visit Disneyland and some just want to relax on the beach.  Others love to see historical sites and still others love to play golf.

One of the most well-known vacation attractions in Southern California is the resort area around Disneyland; this includes the Downtown Disney retail entertainment center and California Adventure, on which Disney is spending around one billion dollars over the next few years.

Anyone who has not visited Anaheim in awhile will be surprised at its evolution over time.  The addition of Disney’s California Adventure alone has changed the whole atmosphere of the Resort, and with the billion-dollar upgrade now underway this will only continue into the future.    It is a great place for people watching—a veritable cultural melting pot.

There are not a lot of other places in the world where you’ll find such a complex melting pot of nationalities as in Southern California.  Although there are often visitors from Europe, Africa and Asia, the countries along the Pacific Ocean are particlularly well represented.

Along with visits to theme parks and the beach, it may be worthwhile to visit some of the permanent ethnic communities spread around Orange and Los Angeles counties in particular.  In Los Angeles County the obvious targest would be Koreatown, west of downtown, Little Tokyo to the west and Chinatown just north of the central business district.  Some of the best-known ethnic communities in Orange County include the Vietnamese community in Little Saigon, and the Hispanic community around Fourth Street in Santa Ana.