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Top 5 things to do in Malibu, California. From a guy who lives there.

Updated: Aug 1, 2020

Wondering what do in the famous beach town of malibu, here are the top five things to do while your there.


5. Biking: Malibu and the surrounding area is full of great biking trails. From mountain biking to biking besides beaches, malibu has a lots of places where you can bike. One of my favorite places to bike in Malibu is on a sidewalk right besides a beach. If you love mountain biking, Malibu Creek State Park is and amazing place to go mountain biking. On the trail in Malibu Creek State Park you bike pass beautiful trees, valleys and rock formations.





4. Museums: Malibu has two awesome museums. The Adamson House and The Getty Villa. The Adamson house one of the first houses in malibu and is famous for it's ceramic tiles created by Rufus Keeler. The tiles cover the whole entire house. It is right next to Surfrider beach, which is one of the best spots in the world for surfers (I'm not kidding). The Getty Villa is one of two J Paul Getty Museums in the world. It has a collection of thousands of Ancient Greek, Roman and Eturia objects. My favorite area in the museum is the Peristyle Garden. It is a beautiful semtric garden and fountain. The whole museum is built like ancient roman Mansion.


3. Hiking: Malibu is surrounded by the Santa Monica mountains, which are very beautiful. There are a ton of great hiking trails, one of my favorite is in Malibu Creek Sate Park. It is a short hike but it leads you some amazing rocks climbing places. If you follow the trail even farther it leads you to rock pools where you can swim. The pools are also surrounded by rocks that you can climb and jump off of. Another great place to hike is in Topanga state Park. My favorite hike in Malibu is at the top of Las Flores canyon. The hike goes along a ridge line, if you look to your left there is a sheer drop and if you look to your right there is another huge drop. It is definitely not a beginner hike, on the trail you scramble rocks and hike huge inclines. The views on the hike are breathtaking and their are lots of places to get dramatic photos.







2. Paragliding: I haven't actually gotten the chance to go paragliding in Malibu but I hope do it in the future. I've watched people Paragliding in malibu before and it seems like and exhilarating experience. You can go paragliding in Malibu with Malibu Paragliding. Press here to see their website. If you want to go Paragliding in Malibu you have to go tandem (with somebody else). If you happen to be driving in Malibu look up, there might be some paraglider. The route takes you from a canyon to Carbon Beach. If your looking for a more thrilling experience in Malibu this ones for you.


1. Beach: Would a trip to Malibu without visiting the beach be complete, of course not. Malibu is famous for it amazing surfing beaches. Surfrider beach in Malibu is one of the best surfing beaches for beginner surfers in the world. The waves are perfect to learn how to surf. Zuma beach is another amazing surfing beach. Zuma is generally for more advanced surfers. Both of these beaches are also amazing boogie boarding beaches.






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Eli Van der Ryn
Eli Van der Ryn
Aug 02, 2020

Wow, that hiking looks great!

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