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November 19th 2005

Published: November 19th 2005

After visiting Everett on the first day of my trip, and visiting Tacoma and Olympia on the second day (refer to my previous 2 posts), I went to visit Portland, Oregon on the third day. Portland is a really beautiful city with a lot of greenery and interesting attractions. To reach Portland, I took a Greyhound bus from Seattle, and the trip took 4 and a half hours! The bus departed Seattle at abo... Read Full Entry

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Lau Chau Sang

autumncs

Born in Hong Kong and currently living in Singapore, I am a guy who loves travelling. Like many "travelholics" at TravelBlog, I'm so addicted to travelling that once I stopped travelling I will have withdrawal symptoms. Hence, to cure my addiction, I have to go somewhere at least once every 2 months. (I must admit that it is an expensive addiction. Haha. But at least addiction to travel is healthier than addiction to drugs/smoking/drinking...) I started using TravelBlog when I was doing my internship in Canada in 2005. (For older photos before my Canadian internship... full info

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Powell's City of Books 3

The Orange Room, one of the several rooms in the bookstore

Downtown

Trees, trees and more trees. It's the greenest city I've ever seen after Singapore. (Ok, the city is not exactly green... The trees are turning yellow and red. Hehe.)

Washington Park Station

This MAX light rail station is the deepest underground station in North America, with the platforms 450 feet below the station entrance. (In Singapore's terms, it's something like digging a MRT tunnel under Bukit Timah Hill and building a MRT station at the summit of the hill.)

Forest Discovery Center Museum

Portland Children's Museum

Washington Park

International Rose Test Garden

The Rose Garden Store within the International Rose Test Garden

International Rose Test Garden 2

Portland is fondly known as the "City of Roses", and the rose is the symbol of the city. It's no wonder that the city has an entire garden dedicated to the growth of the city's flower.

International Rose Test Garden 3

Flora in the garden

Japanese Garden

Entrance of the Japanese Garden. The photo is quite dark because it was taken in a forest and the sky was covered with gloomy clouds.

View from Washington Park

A view of Portland's skyline from Washington Park. (Unfortunately the visibility is rather poor because it was raining.)

Multnomah County Public Library

Interior of one of the reading rooms

Multnomah County Public Library 2

Interior of the top floor foyer. The paintings on the wall depict the previous governors of Oregon State.

Multnomah County Public Library 3

Details of the tile patterns on the grand staircase. Imagine an entire staircase covered with this kind of tiles! (You can actually trace the outline of the patterns by placing a paper on the floor and rubbing a crayon on the paper. I saw kids doing that when I visited the library.)

Portland Art Museum

Entrance to the Portland Art Museum

Portland Art Museum 2

An outdoor sculpture in front of the Portland Art Museum

Portland Art Museum 3

An outdoor installation in front of the Portland Art Museum

Oregon Historical Society

The facade and the impressive wall mural of the Oregon Historical Society

Downtown at night

Portland International Airport

A busy corridor in the airport

Portland International Airport 2

A painting along the shopping corridor in the airport

21st November 2005

ays
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Nice entries
Hey there! Thanks for this wonderful blog, I totally enjoyed reading it. I will be going Portland, Oregon to visit a friend and will be looking forward to seeing all the sights you mentioned! Take care of yourself out there and keep those entries coming! :D - ays

22nd December 2005

anonymous
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Enjoyed your travelblog. Keep traveling, you do a great job at this!

27th January 2006

Friendly Fred
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Good Job
Enjoyed your blog about Portland. It was very informative.

30th January 2007

mike
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nice job
Well done on your Portland blog. I'm thinking about moving there with my girlfriend and our son (we are in Los Angeles now), and it's difficult to find good "man on the street", i.e. not commercial, info on a city. Thanks.

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