With over 450 square miles of desert, mountains and beaches containing over 3 million people, Los Angeles couldn't be experienced during a 30 day weekend, let alone a 3 day one, but it's a fun trying to!

Santa Monica Pier & 3rd St. Promenade: (Santa Monica) Located two blocks from each other, "The Promenade" is a cool outdoor shopping and people watching experience and "The Pier" has great ocean views, carnival rides...and you can even fish off of it!

Venice Boardwalk: (Venice) Located 3 miles south of "The Pier", this spot has "Muscle Beach", legendary basketball courts, street performers, sidewalk vendors, starving artists and musicians, reggae rastas, scantily clad beach goers, hippies, a skate park, a mural of Jim Morrision, a famous guy on roller skates wearing a turban and playing the guitar, etc.

The Getty Center: (Brentwood) Renown and rare paintings, drawings, sculptures, manuscripts and photographs. A tram transports visitors up to the museum atop the Santa Mountains. On clear days, especially the day after a rain, the sunsets are priceless.

La Brea Tar Pits: (Mid City) Can you believe that a historic archeological site rests right in the middle of LA! And you thought everything there was phony! Little did you know that 40,000 years ago, Mastadons and Saber-Tooth's became trapped and subsequently preserved in tar pits here. See it for yourself.

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art): Immense and cherished collection of American Art, Chinese and Korean Art, Ancient and Islamic Art, Costume and Textiles, European Painting and sculpture, South and Southeast Asian Art, Modern and Contemporary Art and Japanese Art, including visiting exhibitions coming through year round.

Mann's Chinese Theater: (Hollywood) See hand and foot prints from over 160 celebrities at the entrance of this classic movie theater located in the heart of Hollywood on Hollywood Blvd. Oh yeah...and catch a flick there, too.

Amusements Parks: The Los Angeles area has a fantastic array of amusement parks (second only to Orlando in the US) with Six Flags Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, Knott's Berry Farm, Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure.

Los Angeles has great weather year round so traveling there is always seasonally pleasing. From October through May, travel to Los Angeles is a lot cheaper and better deals are to be had. Also, hotel rooms, flights and car rentals during the weekdays are drastically cheaper than on weekends. Find cheap flights to Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, including cheap vacation packages, hotels and car rentals. Los Angeles gives you multiple choices of airports to fly into including, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (BUR), John Wayne Airport/Orange County Airport (SNA) and Long Beach Airport (LGB).