Top Things to do in Balboa Park | San Diego

In this video we’ll go on a tour of the south-western part of Balboa Park in San Diego, which is the main part with plenty of museums, historic buildings and beautiful gardens.

There is a lot to see and do at Balboa Park and this tour will give you a good overview of what there is and should help you plan your visit to the park.

0:00 - Intro & History of Balboa Park
1:21 - Location
1:47 - Tour Overview
2:48 - Pan American Plaza: Air & Space, Automotive & Comic-Con Museum
4:05 - Recital Hall, Balboa Park Club & House of Pacific Relations
5:18 - Spreckels Organ Pavilion
6:00 - Japanese Friendship Garden
6:35 - House of Hospitality
6:58 - Lily Pond, Botanical Building & Timken Museum of Art
7:57 - Casa del Prado
8:19 - Casa de Balboa & Zoro Garden
8:57 - Plaza de Balboa: Natural History Museum, Bea Evenson Fountain & Fleet Science Center
9:51 - Plaza de Panama Fountain with Museum of Art
10:08 - The Old Globe & California Building and Tower housing the Museum of Us
10:49 - Cabrillo Bridge
11:18 - Alcazar Garden & Mingei International Museum
12:13 - El Cid Statue
12:48 - Palm Canyon Trail
13:16 - Wrap up

Links:
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Cabrillo National Monument: https://bit.ly/sdcabrillo
Old Town San Diego: https://bit.ly/sdoldtown
Little Italy & Embarcadero: https://bit.ly/sdlittleitaly
Seaport Village: https://bit.ly/sdseaport
Manchester Grand Hyatt: https://bit.ly/sdhyatt

TRANSPORTATION
https://balboapark.org/park-map-direc...

ATTRACTIONS
Balboa Park: https://balboapark.org/
Explorer Pass: https://explorer.balboapark.org/index...
San Diego Air & Space Museum: https://sandiegoairandspace.org/
San Diego Automotive Museum: https://sdautomuseum.org/
Comic-Con Museum: https://www.comic-con.org/museum
House of Pacific Relations: https://www.sdhpr.org/
Spreckels Organ: https://www.spreckelsorgan.org/
Japanese Friendship Garden: https://www.niwa.org/
Botanical Building: https://balboaparkbotanical.org/
Timken Museum of Art: https://www.timkenmuseum.org/
San Diego History Center: https://sandiegohistory.org/
Museum of Photographic Arts: https://mopa.org/
San Diego Model Railway Museum: https://www.sdmrm.org/
Balboa Art Conservation Center: https://www.bacc.org/
San Diego Natural History Museum: https://www.sdnat.org/
Fleet Science Center: https://www.fleetscience.org/
San Diego Museum of Art: https://www.sdmart.org/
The Old Globe: https://www.theoldglobe.org/
Museum of Us: https://museumofus.org/
Mingei International Museum: https://mingei.org/

FOOD & DRINKS
Japanese Tea Pavilion: https://www.cohnrestaurants.com/teapa...
Prado Restaurant: https://www.cohnrestaurants.com/theprado

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