London Eye View - Millennium Wheel Over Thames River

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No trip to London is complete without seeing and even being on a London Eye trip/tour. On a good day you can see all around the South Bank of the River Thames. Sometimes called the Big Wheel - or the Millennium Wheel - when it was first installed back in 1999 - it has become an incredibly popular attraction.

The structure is 443 feet (135 m) tall and the wheel has a diameter of 394 feet (120 m). When it opened to the public in 2000 it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel. It is now known as the Coca-Cola London Eye due to a certain sponsorship deal!

There are 32 sealed air conditioned ovoidal passenger capsules which represent the 32 London boroughs. Each capsule holds a maximum of 25 people and you can actually walk around the capsule while it is moving - the rotation is very slow! The original wheel was owned by The Tussaud's Group, British Airways and Marks Barfield who were the original architects - but Tussaud's bought their partners out in 2005 and 2006. The Blackstone Group bought Tussaud's out in 2007 - but the London Eye has stayed true to the core as a principal tourist attraction for anyone visiting London for a weekend shopping or sight seeing trip.

London has always been a leading global city that people from around the world come to visit, it leads in different fields; in art, education, fashion, entertainment, commerce, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, as well as tourism and transportation and this means that those who come to London do not just come for the sake of touring the city, but they might be also coming to study.

There are lots of different things that would make London one of the most visited cities around the world, if not for the different touristic attractions and old English buildings that attract the eyes then it would at least be for visiting one of the cities that lead the world in education with its universities or even for being the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games for three times.

There are lots of places for one to visit while being in London City, London Eye is definitely one of them since it gives people the chance to have full view of the city while they are rotating up there in this wheel; they will get to see Big Ben, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, and have a general view across River Thames and all those important tall buildings which might be located by it.

Generally speaking, there are other important places which one should visit when it comes to London that are not just related to London Eye and those other attractions which might be close enough. Those other touristic locations will include the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and managing to choose a time during the changing of the guards, Madame Tussaud's London and searching for those famous characters which are considered your favorite, SEA LIFE London and exploring the life under the water with those creatures living inside, the view from the Shard which will bring you up to 40 miles and give you the chance to see the whole city from up there, Kensington Palace, and add to these historical attractions some other places that include London Dungeon and for those Harry Potter lovers there is Warner Bros Studio Tour.

These are all the different touristic destinations which might be always standing on the top of the list when it comes to London, but there are other places which tourists tend to visit and things which they tend to do in London, such as visiting Oxford and Regent streets, either for shopping or just for checking the streets in general, they might also ride the hop-on hop-off bus for a tour around the city, there are those football admirers who visit Chelsea FC Stadium for a tour there, or other general walking tours which are usually done around the city.

Whether it is about the historical English culture that is delivered through the buildings and the museums, about the walking tours which are done throughout the streets of the city, checking those new museums that are related to famous characters and movies and series, or even the food which one might come to taste in this beautiful city, there are lots of things to be done in this beautiful old city that would bring more tourists to it every single year and make the whole thing appear more interesting.

If you haven't been to Coca-Cola London Eye yet then you should definitely go and check this beautiful city and enjoy all its touristic attractions.

Coca-Cola London Eye will never be missed or removed from any plan related to London and it will definitely bring perfect views for the visitors.