| Featured City: Asheville | What a fantastic journey that you are eager to have - to approach the nature and be involved in its breathtaking sceneries but still don't need to get away from the fascinating social life - dazzling theaters, top class restaurants, luxury shopping? Or enjoy the best beer of the world - ales, stouts or porters? And enjoy the countless outdoor activities in the mountain region with amazing landscape, fresh air and purely blue sky?
Come to Asheville-a little town of North Carolina in America, which definitely can make a great journey for you and exceeds your expectation. The charming beauty and nice food will strike you at the first sight. "Wow", you will like to say, "I don't want to leave, let me stay for any expense". It is the place where the world famous literary authors like O. Henry, Carl Sandburg, and Thomas Wolfe had ever lived.
Pamper yourself here for every reason and have a wonderful mountain life with camp sites, hiking trails, waterfalls that you will never have chance to see in big metropolitans, or just to have the tastiest barbecue-sliced, chopped or minced¡.
Asheville - located at the confluence of two rivers, the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, is the best place to eat, drink, play, and enjoy the glorious happy life with many pleasant surprises on the peaks of mountain. Any time of the year is welcoming. Here you won't have to bear the insufferable summer heat. In the mountain region, you can feel the fresh cool air and sense the natural unsurpassed wonders. During chilly cold winter, you are in the snow white wonderland with a lot of outdoor activities like skiing.
Spring is the best of best time to come, while all things come to life after long winter and flowers is in dazzling blossom, which make the city flourish, colorful, and comfortable to walk by with aromatic smell.
Taking a leisure drive -"American's favorite drive", this is the strongest recommended way to appreciate the spectacular view of the city. Asheville boasts a lot of magnificent attractions with Thomas Wolfe Memorial; they are all the must-see destinations on your traveling list.
Thomas is the most famous person in Asheville and has immortalized this great city with its lovely locals in his first novel Look Homeward Angle. You can feel how this great author had got his inspiration for his works by strolling around.
Another must-see is Biltmore Estate, the largest privately owned historic estate under the rich Vanderbilt of the whole world. Its stunning beauty and elegance that can be sensed in its rooms that open to public well worth the price and your time even you have seen a lot of palaces and castles else where. This estate jewel is extending its warm welcome to you all, so don't miss it.
Food in Asheville is so unique and really has something that make you feel like homemade in a friendly small-town atmosphere. You will be very happy to eat the country-style steak, country ham biscuits, and strawberry shortcake for desert. You will definitely fall into love of them at the moment of first taste. Come and have a try or even indulge yourself in these palatable snacks.
Shopping is a lot of fun with so many things to buy and appreciate in Asheville. In Allanstand Craft Shop, one of the oldest crafts shop in the country, you can find plenty of very excellent crafts, pottery, ceramics, weavings, and jewelry. Choose a favorite jean for you at the home of Moses H. Cone which is known as the Denim King for blue jeans.
After an exciting and happy day with lot of magnificent sightseeing, delicious food, you definitely want to have a nice shower and throw yourself onto a comfortable bed. Asheville offers you a lot of choice with good accommodation.
Inn on Biltmore Estate has a very high reputation among the tourists. You will not only be content with its considerate and comfortable service inside the house, but attracted by the charming and beautiful views of mountains outdoor. It is really a bonus to you.
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