Strange Austin

Posted by admin on June 29th, 2010 filed in Travel

There are a number of people every year who drop some cash and head down to Austin. Best hotels are not hard to come by as it is a city made for tourists and there are a number of tourist traps that you can avoid altogether. However, it is a town of strange things and some of the best ones are hidden away. You can find them with a little bit of effort though.

The first one you have to go to is the Museum of the Weird , featuring the best weird things in Austin. The good news is that since it’s opening, visitors and and residents have loved this museum and because of that it has grown nearly three times in size in just about as many years. It was originally created in the spirit of the old dime museums, and was opened in the back of a gift shop. It is complete with shrunken heads, freak animals, a Fiji mermaid , and will be featuring a big foot exhibit. It is cheap to get in too at $3 for adults and $1 for children under 12. It is also free for anyone who buys a poster.

Before you move on to the next thing you will want to do in Austin. best hotels in the area will offer some good rooms for freshening up and putting on some bug spray. If you don’t do this you are going to regret it later because the mosquitoes come out in droves when the light goes down. Luckily other things come out as well. If you love the weird you also might love bats. Either way it is a popular spot for tourists and locals alike to head over to Congress Avenue and check out the world’s largest urban bat colony take flight as the sun starts to set. The funny part is that the circle of life continues as the visitors sit there waiting on the bats to emerge, giving the mosquito one last meal before being taken away by the swarm of hungry flying mammals. If the bats try to fly close to you it’s probably just because you have a few mosquitoes munching on you while they try to hide.

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