Visit Liberty and Ellis Islands in New York

On our first full day in New York, in the road trip through the United States and CanadaSince the hotel breakfast was not included in the price and was expensive, we went out to look for a place to have breakfast.

On the same Seventh Avenue we found a place, Bread Factory, which we found attractive, with all the Hispanic and quite friendly staff, where we finally had breakfast every day of our stay in New York.

It is the typical place where you can order everything from a takeaway coffee, of various sizes and types, to croissants, pizzas, pasta dishes with different sauces, meats, sandwiches, soft drinks, etc...

And where you can choose, as in many other places in the United States, all imaginable varieties of sauces, breads, accompaniments, vegetables... paying a supplement in the price for each choice.

Therefore, faced with so much variety, before ordering something, it is advisable to think carefully about what you want.

In our case, breakfast wasn't very complicated: two small coffees with milk (which is already huge), and a couple of croissants. Total, 11 dollars.

After breakfast we went down to the subway, and since the ticket offices were closed, in some vending machines we bought two weekly passes with which we had already solved our problems. trips around New York.

At the outset, we use our passes for the first time to go to Battery Park, in the southern part of Manhattan.

Once there, walking we went to the departure dock for the boats that would take us to visit the Statue of Liberty and ellis island.

After passing the police security checks, as if it were an airport, we were finally able to board the boat.

The first stage was Island of freedom, where we would descend to visit the famous statue.

At the end, we would take a boat again to Ellis Island; and after visiting it, we would take a third boat to the departure dock in Battery Park.

When we made our trip, the statue could not be visited inside, and therefore could not be visited climb to the crown that surrounds the head of the figure. Furthermore, to go up, you had to request authorization many months in advance.

La Statue of LibertyAlthough seen a thousand times, photographed a thousand times, it never ceases to fascinate and surprise.

It is truly majestic and its symbolism reaches into the essence of each one. Logically, there were many people on the island; We went around the statue completely, we took dozens of photographs, like everyone else, all the same, but all different.

We also toured the gardens that surround it, we learned about the explanatory murals, etc...

And 90 minutes after getting off the boat, we took another one from the same company to head to Ellis Island, a journey that lasts about 25 minutes.

This island was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States, being the busiest inspection site in the entire country from 1892 to 1954. During that period, more than twelve million immigrants were controlled by the Immigration office.

Today, more than 100 million Americans, or one-third of the current population, trace their ancestry to immigrants who first came to the United States through Ellis Island, before dispersing throughout the country.

All the existing immigration facilities on this island have been converted into a fantastic and spacious Immigration museum which perfectly summarizes and explains everything that happened there in those years.

It is truly horrifying to note the large number of Europeans who entered the United States in that period fleeing Europe.

Once we visited the entire museum for a couple of hours, we returned by boat to Battery Park, south of Manhattan, but not without continuing to think about all the vicissitudes and problems that the immigration of human beings can cause for the people themselves.