Sarasota is a beautiful destination with wonderful weather and jaw-dropping natural surroundings. I highly recommend this vacation destination to find an abundance of sporting and cultural events in addition to upscale shops, restaurants, and powder white beaches for visitors to enjoy. In the heart of the city, you will appreciating wonderful art to enjoying circus thrills, park, museums and discover the top things to do in the Sarasota area.
The Ringling
MIND BLOWING!
This beautiful art museum is unique and top most attraction of Sarasota. We were blown away by the beautiful gardens, some, circus museum, art museum and the Ringling mansion. This really stunning 36,000-square feet mansion offers interactive exhibits, consists of over 10,000 objects including unique arts, drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures that range from antiquity to contemporary art. It’s truly gorgeous and impressive how palm trees beautifully lined on one side of the mansion and the other side featuring an exquisite marble waterfront terrace, can be fun for all ages ranging from relaxing and satisfying events, food and wine tastings, seminars and lots of more entertainment.
Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium
I had a wonderful time exploring variety of marine animals in the amazing aquarium. A fun experience for all by exploring multi-media activities, variety of colors, shapes and sizes many species, including seahorses, jellyfish, octopus, giant squid, alligators, eels and sharks. There are three river otters that are a joy to watch above and below water, as they play, race, wrestle, eat and swim right up to the glass. The aquarium is home to over 100 marine species, 135,000-gallon shark habitat, shark habitat, manatee, sea turtle, river otter, and more exhibits, the world’s largest grouper species and last but not the least the Immersion Cinema that features a 40-foot-wide HD screen and interactive console that allows you to affect the outcome of the movie. It’s also a great place for kids to have fun and educational tour of life cycle of the sea, feeding animals, special kids holiday-themed events and as well as a better understanding of sea animals via technology and competitions.
Botanical Garden
The Botanical Garden has many special events, offer ongoing classes, summer camp for children and various school programs, garden music series and art exhibits throughout the year for kids to explore nature through sensory centers, themed art and science activities, stories and free play. It’s the only botanical garden in the world focused on epiphytes, non-parasitic plants that grow on other plants like orchids and bromeliads. With 9 acres of breathtaking and colorful displays, have an impressive 20 different habitats and more than 20,000 exotic plants such as bamboo, live oaks, mangroves, succulents, and much more. This is a wonderful area for children to create and play. It is also a wonderful area to meditate, relax and enjoy your food while your kids to play and learn.