Things to do Miami - Beaches Miami - Travel planner guide Miami Beach
Far and away the most exciting city in Florida, MIAMI is a stunning and often intoxicatingly beautiful place. Awash with sunlight-intensified natural colors, there are moments – when the neon-flashed South Beach skyline glows in the warm night and the palm trees sway in the breeze – when a better-looking city is hard to imagine. Even so, people, not climate or landscape, are what make Miami unique. Half of the two million population is Hispanic, the vast majority Cubans. Spanish is the predominant language almost everywhere – in many places it's the only language you'll hear, and you'll be expected to speak at least a few words – and news from Havana, Caracas or Managua frequently gets more attention than the latest word from Washington, DC.
Posh Miami, the glittering jewel in Florida's beach-fringed crown, has some of the best eye-candy around: its stunning Art Deco architecture, white-sand beaches, decadent boardwalks, swanky nightlife, Cuban vibe, and abundant South Beach celebrity-sightings combine to give the city a hedonistic lifestyle that’s second to none. Indeed, as many of our members point out, Miami typically wakes up when the rest of the world goes to bed. used to be called "God's Waiting Room" because of the many octogenarians eking out their last moments by the pool. Today the old folks mingle with fashion designers, bikini models and Cuban émigrés and tourists.
Miami is a melting pot that would make America's founders swell with pride. Half of Miami's population is Hispanic. For the casual visitor this means a city peppered with the flavors of Latin American food, language and music. Food and music, in fact, showcase Miami's zest for all things sensual. Cool jazz, spirited salsa rhythms and a cuisine that unites fresh seafood, tropical fruits and tongue-tingling peppers provide evidence of a people and a city mesmerized by – and dedicated to – the spices of life. Give yourself over to its many incarnations in Miami's most sizzling neighborhoods: Little Havana, South Beach or the Design District. Each one boasts top-notch clubs and superlative restaurants, energized by the buzz of a style-conscious clientele.
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