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Hippie Hollow Beach

Hippie Hollow Beach also originally known as McGregor County Park features a steep rocky shoreline with access to Lake Travis. It is the only Clothing optional public park in Texas. It is legal to sunbathe and swim naked here making it the perfect destination for a fun recreational trip. Overnight camping, bonfires, firework, pets, and glass containers are banned here. All visitors must be over 18 years old to be allowed entry to the beach.

The Holocaust Museum Houston is the fourth largest in the country and is situated within the Museum District, having opened in the year 1996. Comprising of several galleries and exhibits featuring the lives of the Holocaust victims, the museum aims to educate visitors against hatred, violence and prejudice. The Holocaust Museum Houston’s Education Department within the Boniuk Center consists of classrooms, offices, a library and storage rooms. The different educational programs organised by the museum, such as EIM or the Educator in Motion program, seek to teach high school students from Houston about the history of the Holocaust, Genocide, Social Justice as well as several pressing issues of today. It is the numerous exhibits and galleries spread out around the three floors of the museum that serve as the central highlight to visitors. Read More

A new venture: the Houston Aquarium and Animal Adventure is opening soon in the metropolitan area of Houston . The venture aims to give its visitors the closest experience and insights into not only wild life but also marine life. The Houston Aquarium and Animal Adventure presents the visitors an exclusive opportunity to feed alligators, pets sharks and stingrays and get a chance to interact with other sea animals.

Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

Located in Memorial Park, the Houston Arboretum and Nature Centre is a non-profit arboretum which is spread across 155 acres of land. With natural trails of 8 km, there are various gardens encompassed in it, like the Sensory Garden, Hummingbird, and Butterfly Island and Wildlife Garden. The sensory garden in the Nature Centre is designed to appeal to the 3 senses smell, sight, and sound which is evident as the garden has highly fragrant plants, bees, and tropical sage plants. The Wildlife Garden as the name suggests has harbored many reptiles, migratory birds’ amphibians, and many more. The Hummingbird and butterfly Island consists mostly of nectar plants. The Nature Centre visitors can enjoy wildlife as well as the sight of the unique gardens. Read More

A massive property of 132 acres of land Houston Botanic Garden is a host of two main gardens; the Global Collection Garden and the Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden. 70 acre of land of the garden is on an island in Sims Bayu. The garden is divided into six different distinct zones: a global garden collection, a culinary garden that has edible and medicinal plants, a lagoon encircled with a boardwalk maze, a family centre, coastal prairie and water wetlands along the islands. The Global collection garden which spreads across three acres of land has over 350 species of plants, there are also some rare plants like maples, lilies and African Grass. The Family Discovery Garden on the other hand has a plenty of space to roam, water machines and a boardwalk maze encompassing a lagoon. It also allows people to learn new planting techniques and understand the nutritional significance of plants as they grow organic produce in the garden. Read More

Houston Buddhist Vihara is the largest Sri Lankan Buddhist temple in the area. Founded in 1988 by two Buddhist monks, the Vihara aims to facilitate Theravada Buddhist education and spreading values to its members. The temple complex includes the main shrine hall and Dana Sala (dining hall), a Stupa with an open space to pray and a Bodi tree to add to the glory of the premises. Nestled in quiet surroundings, the temple holds meditation classes, Abhidhamma studies, Dhamma dialogues, Sila programs for adults, music and dance classes for children. Read More

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft or the HCCC was founded in the year 2001 and has since worked towards educating people about craft; about its history, process and product. It focuses specifically on art work made from glass, metal, wood, clay, fiber, and other recycled materials. The Craft Garden, which is divided into 4 sections (baskets, textiles, papers and dyes), is where visitors get to see the planting and production of materials. There are one-hour long guided tours which take visitors around the various exhibitions and the Craft Garden, and allow them to interact with the resident artists. The Artist Residency Program offers artists a space to create their art, irrespective of the medium. It also hosts several events which allow visitors to interact with different artists, learn about the exhibits and much more. Read More

Houston Center for Photography started out small, when it opened in 1981, and has today become a major fine art organisation that focuses on photography. It boasts of many permanent as well as rotating exhibitions which include photographs on various subjects, by different artists, and also aims to educate visitors about the art via publications, educational programs and workshops. In fact, it offers to people of all ages, hundreds of classes and workshops on the art. The Learning Center offers the chance to select an area of interest with respect to film as well as photography, and the classes often include lectures and demonstrations by industry experts. These classes are held at the Center’s critique room, digital darkroom, off-site, artists studios and at other partner organization facilities. Read More

Opened in the year 1981, the Houston Center for Photography is a major fine art organization that specialises in photography. Though it started out small, the Center has become quite popular owing to its numerous permanent and rotating exhibitions and displays which feature diverse work by different artists. Workshops, presentations, publications and educational programs are used to teach people about the art of photography; there are over a hundred classes and workshops which are suitable for all age groups. Classes on film and photography are taught at the Learning Center and students get to interact with industry experts through lectures and demonstrations. Furthermore, they are organised in different settings such as the Center’s critique room, off-site artist studios, facilities owned by partner organisations and the digital darkroom. Read More

The Houston Congregation reform, a social reform synagogue has celebrated 60 years as a place of worship. The synagogue is located in the heart of Houston’s Galleria area, the synagogue offers an intimate, vibrant and gives the feeling of warmth and goodwill when one enters the synagogue. Houston Congregation reform started reforming their congregation in 2005 and also conducted synagogue classes and every Friday night the synagogue has shabbat services for its jewish people. Read More