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When in Austin...

If you've already taken time to smell the flowers:

  • Check out the live music scene in the clubs on Sixth Street. From folk to rock to country, you'll find your sound in the "Live Music Capital of the World."
  • Stroll along trails by Town Lake and in Zilker Park.
  • Rent a canoe or kayak and paddle around Town Lake, the stretch of the Colorado River dammed off along Austin.
  • Take a dip in Barton Springs, a spring-fed pool always a cool 68 degrees. State capitol in Austin
  • From April to October, watch the nightly take-off of some 700,000 bats from underneath the Congress Avenue bridge, home to the world's largest urban bat colony.
  • Visit the Elisabet Ney Museum and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden for a dose of art.
  • Tour the Texas State Capitol (seven feet taller than the U.S. Capitol) and Governor's mansion.
  • In football season, catch a game at the University of Texas.
  • Go to the top of Mount Bonnell for a bird's eye view of Austin.
  • Taste the local cuisine at Austin's many Tex-Mex restaurants.
  • Visit the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum at the University of Texas.
  • Tour the one-time home of famous short-story writer O. Henry, whose life was often more dramatic than fiction.

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