Gaudily painted trucks and buses thread with somnambulatory leisure through The Haight-Ashbury’s sunny streets like evocations of an acid dream; the sickly scent of incense fills the air to mask ...

From the iconic Golden Gate Bridge to the Victorian houses of Haight-Ashbury ... you can see the Painted Ladies, the iconic row of colourful late 19 th-century houses from the lawns of Alamo ...