I’m going to Miami!

”Party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach til’ the break of dawn…”
I’ve been singing this Will Smith’s song for the last few months, almost every day since I booked my plane ticket 😀

The journey is coming closer and closer, so I decided to make a list of things I would like to see in the city and near Miami.

COCONUT GROVE

Coconut Grove is the oldest modern continuously inhabited neighborhood of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is located in the middle of Miami but offers a completely laid back atmosphere This bohemian style district, full of boutiques, galleries, restaurants, sidewalk cafes, is one of Miami’s favorite neighborhoods for locals and visitors.

VILLA VIZCAYA

3251 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33129
Villa Vizcaya, now named the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, is a beautiful 34-room mansion, built in the 1910s, that belonged to a businessman James Deering.

BAYFRONT PARK

301 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Bayfront Park is a public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay.

BAYSIDE MARKETPLACE

R106, 401 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Bayside Marketplace is located on Biscayne Bay in the heart of downtown Miami. Because we all need a little bit of shopping and food 😀

PAMM – Pérez Art Museum Miami

1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
The Pérez Art Museum Miami is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Museum Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. It’s not just the art inside but mostly the building itself that inspires me, it just looks spectacular.

MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT

3841 NE 2nd Ave #400, Miami, FL 33137
The Miami Design District is a creative neighborhood and shopping destination dedicated to innovative fashion, design, art, architecture, and dining. The Design District, historically a part of Buena Vista, is a neighborhood within the city of Miami, Florida.

VENETIAN POOL

2701 De Soto Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Venetian Pool is a historic U.S. public swimming pool located in Coral Gables, Florida. Pool, opened in 1924 as “Venetian Casino,” was created from an old coral rock quarry abandoned in 1921 on 4 acres. Named for Mediterranean city of Venice, Italy, the pool included a Venetian style bridge and classic mooring posts.

LITTLE HAVANA

Little Havana is a neighborhood of Miami, named after Havana, the capital and largest city in Cuba. Miami’s Cuban community is centered on vibrant Little Havana and its main drag of Calle Ocho, where you can discover great Latino food and music and a very strong but good coffee. It just sounds amazing 🙂

EVERGLADES

40001 State Road 9336, Homestead, Florida 33034
The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, International Biosphere Reserve, and Wetland of International Importance, significant to all people of the world.

CORAL CASTLE MUSEUM

28655 S Dixie Hwy, Homestead, FL 33033
This is a sculpture garden in stone, built by one man, Edward Leedskalnin who supposedly single-handedly and secretly carved over 1,100 tons of coral rock. It is also the inspiration for Billy Idol’s song Sweet Sixteen.
“Edward Leedskalnin was born in Riga, Latvia on August 10th, 1887. When Ed was 26 years old, he became engaged to marry his one true love Agnes Scuffs. Agnes was ten years younger than Ed and he affectionately referred to her as his “Sweet Sixteen.” Agnes canceled the wedding just one day before the ceremony. Heartbroken and deeply saddened by this tragic loss, Ed set out on a lifelong quest to create a monument to his lost love that has become one of the world’s most remarkable accomplishments, originally called Rock Gate Park but now known as the Coral Castle. With no outside assistance or large machinery, Ed single-handedly built the Coral Castle, carving and sculpting over 1,100 tons of coral rock, as a testimony to his lost love, Agnes.” Found on: coralcastle.com/whos-ed/

FREEHAND MIAMI HOSTEL & 27RESTAURANT & THE BROKEN SHAKER BAR

2727 Indian Creek Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140-4429
This is a hostel I booked, and I think I couldn’t find any better, the photos are amazing, and there is a pool, I can’t wait to see it 🙂
Freehand Miami is a reinvention of the historic Indian Creek Hotel, one of Miami Beach’s classic 1930s Art Deco buildings.
They have incorporated handcrafted design by Roman & Williams and collaborated with the award-winning duo behind Bar Lab to create the inventive cocktails, tasty food, and warm atmosphere at the bar, The Broken Shaker, and a new restaurant, 27.
Centrally located at the corner of 28th Street and Indian Creek Drive, it is only a few blocks from popular destinations like the Miami Beach Convention Center, Ocean Drive, Lincoln Road Mall and all the dining and nightlife of South Beach.

FLORIDA KEYS

“The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 24 km south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas. The islands lie along the Florida Straits, dividing the Atlantic Ocean to the east from the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and defining one edge of Florida Bay. At the nearest point, the southern part of Key West is just 140 km from Cuba.” -(from Wiki)
It look really fascinating, I probably won’t have time to see all that, but at least the nearest Key Largo would be great. 🙂

WOW… Just too many things to see. I haven’t yet been there but I already know I’ll have to come again to Florida.
Do you have any ideas and recommendations for other things to do and what else to see in Miami?
Let me know in the comment below 🙂