Day 70 Atlanta, USA

Quite an interesting day really with going to see where Martin Luther King Jr was brought up and also buried.Atlanta doesnt really have to much to offer apart from the above and the Olympic Park that we also walked around later,thats unless your interested in the CNN building and Coca Cola factory.But having said that i was glad to of escaped the blues/country theme of Memphis and Nashville.We walked from the hotel for a look downtown and then over to where the Martin Luther King Jr Museum was.It certainly wasnt the nicest of areas to walk through thats for sure and i got the feeling i wouldnt want to walk here at night and felt just a little bit concerned at times for my safety although considering what had gone on here all those years ago in this area today is nothing compared to that.
In the museum we watched a short film on what life was like in those days with all the segregation of black and white people and then read all about the life of Marin Luther King Jr and his family which was very interesting.Then it was a short walk to the house where he was brought up as a child and even today its a fairly nice house and good sized considered in the middle class bracket back then with the lower class houses across the road.After we walked back and across the road from the museum to where he was buried and down to the church where the funeral took place.
After lunch and a walk around the underground shops we walked over to the Olympic Park but the heat was so hot by then that shortly afterwards we headed back to the hotel to relax.

House where Martin Luther King Jr was brought up from birth

Plaque at the home

Artin Luther King Jr burial site

Martin Luther King Jr grave

Ebeneezer Church where the funeral took place

Georgia State Capitol Building

Olympic Park,Atlanta

Olympic Park,Atlanta

Olympic Park,Atlanta

Olympic Park,Atlanta

Olympic Park,Atlanta