Firstly we visited the Alamo (remember the Alamo!!) Interesting for me but Chris got a bit bored.
Then we headed on to the cities famous ‘Riverwalk’. The central city area is built on a horseshoe bend in the river which was once subject to flooding.
They fixed the flooding by dams and then instead of diverting the river past the city and filling in the bed, they kept the water flowing through a horseshoe bend.
They have created a central area of restaurants, night clubs and hotels. It simply bustles with atmosphere all day long and at night really comes alive.
They have a fleet of flat bottomed boats that run tours along the river which is about 10 metres wide and can be crossed by a series of walking bridges. In the evening they convert many of the flat bottomed boats to floating dining tables where guests can tour the canal while dining.
I’ve never been to Venice but this reminds me of the pictures I’ve seen of Venice (clearly on a much smaller scale).
Could this be an option for the Torrens river?
The only negative about San Antonio is that it is hot (humid hot). But that aside we loved it.
Our next stop was going to be Austin as many people here recommend it but we have decided to keep that for another time and will instead go on to Houston – a more direct route east which should keep us to our original schedule of making New Orleans by the 20th of June.
PS. More photos to follow later- for some reason, after the first two, they are refusing to upload today.
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