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Monday, June 29, 2015

Visiting Alcatraz

Visiting this famous prison(color version) is a must if you are ever in San Fran. Best if you buy the ticket in advance, there is a limit amount of visitors are allowed each session. We bough ours on the same day(early morning) but i think we were just lucky and it was in end of August. we wanted to visit the night tour but it was fully booked, that need months in advance because there are only 2 session for the night tour but then again, it's not exactly at night but until 6:40pm but no biggy


while waiting for our boat to come


model of Alcatraz aka The Rock


the ticket to Alcatraz it's abit expensive ($30/pax), although it's a national park, the national park annual pass are of no use here. According to them, the national park itself is free this $30 is for the boat ride though


the boat ride takes about 5-8 minutes


reached


the dock at The Rock



security tower


once on the island, there is a short briefing from the ranger of the national park welcoming all visitors



exploring the rock, behind me is the Officer's club


there was also an exhibition going on


more infos :-------> http://www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/





the only person i recognize was Aung San Suu Kyi on this lego portrait creation 



background is the main building of the prison


the water tank



the creepy morgue


the inside


going in the main prison


there is a free headphone provided, that guided us through the entire main prison,
so no point me telling the whole story. no spoiler! :)






real bullet holes at the cut off




enjoying the tour




the yard






the small hole to see the outside world, so near at yet so far indeed


back to the cell


it was said that this part of the prison cells were the most desirable because they got sunlight


boon the happy prisoner


this is where they put the misbehave inmates, it's actually quite dark and creepy



famous inmate


the library was quite big, well prison standard




















it's like time capsule here 


administrative office 




warden's office


the wardens' of Alcatraz



light house


the warden's house







i wouldn't mind being waders's wife...hehe


everyday beautiful view but then again i would probably bored, hey nothing is perfect


view of San Fran from The Rock




going back in the main building again










beautiful paintings and sketches by the inmates



the dining hall


kitchen





infirmary


boon in BW in the infirmary, another horror movie poster...hehe






the escapees that made it out, or dead in the cold freezing ocean? no body knows what happen to them

.
here are boat departures scheduled from The Rock back to the pier.
we spend about 2-3 hours here exploring, With the queuing. boat ride and everything, one need to at least spend half a day of their time to visit the Alcatraz. 

~ enjoy ~



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