Duck Tour :

It's a Duck. No, it's a Bus. It's a Boat. Actually it's a Duck Tour - bus cum boat. These canary-yellow vehicles drive on the road and float on water. These Chitty Chitty Bang Bang truck-boat hybrids are each pushing 70 years old. The 75-minute tour trundles around Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and Hyde Park Corner in central London, then lurches at an alarming angle into the Thames to chug low in the water alongside the Houses of Parliament.

The entertaining guides combine interesting facts, stand-up comedy. One thing for sure, you will come back home with the widest grin on your face.

Go on a Bat Walk:

This is not for the queasy hearted. Walk the St James's Park Bat Walks, which take place at dusk and start at Horseguards Parade (tube: Charing Cross). It's generally fully booked, so you need to book ahead.

Almost as interesting as the bat spotting itself are your fellow spotters, who range from flappy-eared fanatics to quintessential English gentlemen, all sporting crackly bat detectors. The tension mounts as you circle the lake without spotting a single flying mammal, but as evening falls, the bats oblige by whirring above the trees, provoking a moment of pure wonder.

Find the Gods in Neasden:

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir the first Hindu temple in Europe, would be amazing anywhere. But in a northwest London suburb, off the North Circular motorway, it's otherworldly. The lace-like marble carving, delicate as flowers, was made by Indian sculptors and then shipped to the UK, where volunteers worked to build the temple from 26,300 carved pieces. Built from 1992 to 1995 and funded entirely by donations, it's for the area's Indian community, but everyone is welcome.
Nearest tube: Neasden

Go spiritual at West Minster Abbey:

Attend a spiritual sunday service at the West Minster Abbey Church, irrespective of your beliefs. Its chicken soup for the soul. The Chuch is one of Britain's finest Gothic buildings. Scene of the coronation, marriage and burial of British monarchs. Visitors can see the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, Royal Tombs and Shrine of St Edward the Confessor, the Coronation Chair, Lady Chapel and Poets' Corner, Pyx Chamber, Nave and cloisters, the Royal Chapels and the Undercroft Museum.

Visit Sir John Soane's Museum by candlelight

The 18th-century architect's former home, is a British Aladdin's cave. It's at its most magical by candlelight (6-9pm, first Tuesday of the month).

From outside, the museum is a graceful townhouse. Within you'll find a treasure trove, lit by hidden skylights, reflected by mirrors, and topped by a glass dome. Highlights of Soane's crammed-in collection of art, sculpture and antiques include the Egyptian sarcophagus of Seti l and a bevy of Hogarth paintings.

Visit London's most famous address - 221b Baker Street:

Step back in time and visit the most famous address in London, within a short walk from Oxford Street. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson lived in a Victorian lodging at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904 according to stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This house has been preserved faithfully as per the published stories.

The address itself did not exist at the time the stories were first published. The site of the house - had it ever existed - has been disputed by scholars. In his first manuscript, Conan Doyle put Holmes's home in "Upper Baker Street", indicating that if he had a house in mind it would have been in the section north of Marylebone Road, near Regent's Park.

Become a kid at the Cartoon Museum :

This highly entertaining London tourist attraction covers the history and development of British cartoons from the 18th Century till the present day. It has an exhaustive collection of all types of cartoons in this museum including caricatures and rare examples of cartoon art. Sure the kids will find it entertaining but we recommend it for all animation enthusiasts.

There are over nine hundred pieces on exhibit and the museum regularly holds events where both children and adults can participate. Please note that the museum is closed on Mondays and open Tuesday to Saturday 10.30- 17.30 and Sunday 12.00-17.30.
Free Entry with the London Pass
Normal Entry Price: Adult: £4.00

West Brompton Cemetery:

London has many beautiful and overgrown cemeteries. Squeezed almost out of existence by Fulham, Chelsea and Earls Court, between which it lies, West Brompton was an area of fields and market gardens until the late eighteenth century. Much of the land was acquired from 1801 by the Gunter family, confectioners of Berkeley Square.

The cemetery was compulsorily purchased from the private owners in 1852 by the General Board of Health, becoming the first and only London cemetery under government control. Around 200,000 people have been buried here, including eleven holders of the Victoria Cross, 3,000 Chelsea Pensioners.

Children’s writer Beatrix Potter often walked in the cemetery and seems to have found the names for many of her characters on the gravestones here.