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Typical characteristics of a very prominent San Francisco is about the weather, the soil surface up and down the steep cable car with her and of course a very famous Bridge of the Golden Gate.

Landed at San Francisco International Airport at 19:30 hours local time, weather is still very bright. Earlier that week in May, in San Francisco’s blue skies clean without a speck of cloud was that entrenched there. But do not ask where the air temperature.

Bright weather that was almost visible as a hot, in fact, to newcomers who come from tropical areas, it will feel cold which could even make body shivered. At that time, after undergoing ground formalities such as immigration and security checks are super tight, not felt the clock showed 21:00 am, the air outside was pitch-dark, highly contrasting with the condition when the plane landed shortly.

Cold stung, especially when wind blows. The wind that supposedly originated from the famous Pacific Ocean’s cold. Special about the cold air in San Francisco, who said they always, hit on throughout the year, marked also with the famous words of Mark Twain, a famous American novelist who lived in the years 1835 to 1910. He says: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Besides the cold, the city of San Francisco located in a very bumpy ground, up and down with a very steep condition. Some roads even intangible form that climb at an angle of nearly 60 degrees!

But the road conditions so it does not preclude the conduct of local government in the form of public transport tram, known as the cable car, an old tram which operated manually by cable car system. This cable car was first operated by “Clay Street Hill Rail Road”, with the launch of its first year at August, 2, 1873. The train is maintained until now in the year 2010, and has become the icon of San Francisco.

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