Conflicting images of the city of Los Angeles flicker across our television and movie screens: Hollywood glamour contrasts with gang violence, year-round sunny skies with smog, fast cars with traffic jams.
From what travelers can gather, Los Angeles is a land of style and disaster, movers, shakers and earth quakers. Residents of Los Angeles are accustomed to a rhythm that alternates between relaxation and stress, but visitors to Los Angeles—fortunately—tend to experience much more of the former.
The nation's second-largest city (after New York), Los Angeles is a great place in which to do business or take a vacation. Los Angeles' marvelous restaurants, terrific nightlife, beaches, diverse cultural offerings, amusement parks and easygoing attitudes converge in a vast Southern California landscape flooded with sunshine and lined with palms. Visitors should see Los Angeles at least once, though a single visit will hardly be enough to appreciate such a large area jam-packed with Southern California attractions.
