Georgia Top Things To Do
• Shop in Underground Atlanta (website: www.underground-atlanta.com), a restored four-square block shopping and entertainment area, located near the business centre of Atlanta and home to the Zero Mile Post, which marks the city's birthplace.
• See the wildlife at the Atlanta Zoo (website: www.zooatlanta.org) in Grant Park. While at the park, tour the restored Confederate Fort Walker, and the Cyclorama, a world-famous 123m- (406ft-) circumference painting of the Battle of Atlanta.
• Climb or ride the cable car to the top of Stone Mountain (website: www.stonemountainpark.com), where gigantic representations of three confederate heroes (President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E Lee and Thomas ‘Stonewall' Jackson) have been carved into a cliff-face.
• Pan for gold in Dahlonega (website: www.dahlonega.org), an old mining town.
• Raft the rapids on the Ocoee (site of 1996 Olympic events) or Chattahoochee Rivers.
• Spend the day at Tybee Island (website: www.tybeeisland.com) featuring sands, fishing piers and a marine science centre. The city is also home to the celebrated Savannah Jazz Festival in September.
• View over 100,000 fish and sea creatures at Atlanta's Georgia Aquarium (website: www.georgiaaquarium.org), billed as the largest aquarium in the world.
• Explore Jekyll Island's (website: www.jekyllisland.com) unspoiled natural beauty and fascinating history. It's an ideal destination for bird watchers, golfers and history enthusiasts, and was once the winter sanctuary of some of the US's wealthiest industrialists, such as William Rockefeller and Richard Crane.
• Paddle a canoe through the Okefenokee Swamp keeping an eye out for the resident alligators.
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