A sightseer’s visit to the American East Coast won’t be complete without a visit to the ‘Venice of America’ as Fort Lauderdale is also called. The city is host to many memorable sights, and the visitor will be hard-pressed to exhaust them.

The city itself, with it’s intricate network of canals is a great attraction. It is one the very few cities in the US which offer a genuine intra-city boat ride, along it’s numerous canals. Using the city’s cruise ships and water taxis you can actually get quite an extensive tour of the city, without getting out of water!

Then there is the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation and the Ah Tha Thi Ki museum at West Boundary Road, where Fort Lauderdale exhibits her history. You also get to see the city’s artifacts and other great works of art and craft here, all at a very nominal cost.

There is also the Sawgrass Mills, reputedly the world’s largest outlet mall, located at 12801 West Sunrise Boulevard, a great shopping venue you would do well to visit while in Fort Lauderdale. You are likely to find some great deals here, so do carry some cash – or card - with you on your visit here, especially if you love shopping in your travels.

If you have brought your youngsters with you, then you will do well to pay a visit to the Museum of Discovery and Science and IMAX theater, at 401 Southwest Second Street, which makes for a great learning center complete with a discovery center, and a movie theater which shows scientific movies, powerful telescopes and things of that nature, to inspire your youngster academically.

If you are a swimming enthusiast, you will certainly consider a visit to the International Swimming Hall of Fame at One Hall of Fame Drive, and see an exhibition of international swimming legends.

And if you are a naturalist, then a good place you might consider touring is Bonnet House Museum and Gardens at 900 North Birch Road, a beautiful place adorned with lush tropical gardens and bonnet water lilies. On the downside, Fort Lauderdale hosts the Osborne Reef, a case of extreme environmental degradation. Here dumped tires, originally meant to create a fish habitat, and that have accumulated to create an artificial reef, which is an eye-sore to many naturalists. The reef does however serve to show how well-meant ecological interventions can backfire, and that we should let nature take its course whenever possible

These are just a few of Fort Lauderdale’s hundreds of remarkable sights, and you would do well to pay it a visit, and see what it is that draws the millions of visitors to this beautiful city. It is guaranteed not to disappoint.