Sunday, December 13, 2009
Great Falls, Canada
Great Falls, Canada
In order to experience the United States, Christmas, walking 40 countries to choose in cold weather arrived in North America, in Canada, watching the winter wind Niagara Falls is still magnificent and breathtaking shock. And then cold and then frozen are also worthwhile!
To tell the truth, the right to enter Canada to see whether the falls have been quite disturbed, because I have a plan and only the United States visa. Usually have a visa to enter Canada, the United States not be any trouble. However, I travel in the United States the way, I heard that a group of Chinese tourists run away in Canada, Canadian tourists may want to restrict Chinese immigration. For insurance, I have incurred the Mix and online Canadian Consulate in New York to do into the plus clearance, but also specifically sought out a familiar way to help the Taiwanese people.
While some help, or do not do well, a waste of an afternoon time deal. Consulate first say that these days are no longer to the Chinese certification, and I have no confidence at the time, that actually articulate young man looking for a consulate in Taiwan, the above people, people promised to see several of our Chinese people, through the thin asking Zai Zai confirm that we do not like the Chinese who fled a few days ago, after finally gave us a visa.
Rented a van in New York state border send us the sky is already dark not see five fingers of reaching. In the border of the small house, but also cross-examination, inspection, waiting for a very, before clearance. Rushed to find hotels and booked on the urban areas of Toronto. I just felt very cold that night.
The next day take to the streets of Toronto, where dry and cold dry and cold winter, the streets do not see pedestrians.
However, come to Chinatown, but I think a lot of warmth, the streets are Chinese characters, as if returned to China. In particular, here, drink, morning tea, the Hong Kong dim sum chef to do a very authentic, with the food in Guangzhou is no different.
Perhaps in the United States spend more time traveling in Toronto to see China's TV series posters, very kind.
Here is downtown Toronto, the streets deserted in winter.
Here seems to remember that the University of Toronto, although there is no luoxue empty field, but the biting cold wind, as the same knife. I can not buy the time the cotton-padded clothes, bought in Hong Kong, this Teddy is a very thin sandwich shirt, do not wind.
Canadian National Tower is Canada's symbol of Toronto landscape an important symbol, which was built in 1976, four-story tower on the observation deck.
Award-winning design of 360-degree revolving restaurant (360 Restaurant) is located 351 meters high above the ground floor, the floor rotating restaurant week will take 72
Minutes, dining customers will be the venue without a 360-degree panoramic views of Toronto.
At noon, we drove out of town, roughly along the lake walk, cold, hungry, on the lake near a warm restaurant to eat buffet.
Finally came to the Nyala Falls, on hillsides, there is a Sightseeing Tower, you can look at the air border and Great Falls.
Elevator rose to the air, I walked out the glass door to see scenery, did not expect, the air cold wind a blowing my hat, but fortunately it is hanging in the barbed wire, there is no drift away, I grabbed back.
In the air, Niagara Falls can be seen clearly in shape. The left tip of the island is the United States land, the land front of the camera in Canada.
In 1678, one named Louis • Hennepin French missionaries came to preach here, and found the Great Falls. In order to compete for invaluable piece of land, the United States and Canada (at that time is the United Kingdom) between the two countries from 1812 to 1814 was carried out between the fierce war, the war ended, the two countries signed the Agreement of Ghent, "Niagara River between the two countries provided a total of , the main channel center line of the boundary between the two countries.
Since then, the two countries on each side to build a waterfall called Niagara Falls, the sister city, one attached to Canada's Ontario province, a subordinate to the U.S. state of New York. 2 city across the river from the Rainbow Bridge connection between freedom of the people in peaceful coexistence.
"Niagara" in Indian language means "Thor's water", they think of the roaring waterfall is Raytheon's voices. This waterfall is the world's seven great wonders of one of its grand imposing shock of all the tourists come to watch. Niagara River connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in a waterway, only 5 kilometers long, but never straight down to 174 meters above sea level 75 meters above sea level, water potential of emotion and sonic booms like thunder.
Niagara Falls waterfall formed by the three, "Horseshoe Falls" (Horseshoe
Falls, is the "Canada Falls", which shaped like a horseshoe), "American Falls" (American Falls) and the "Bridal Veil Falls" (Bridal Veil
Falls). "Bridal Veil" in wide "American Falls" side, despite the thin ray, but self-contained teams. Lacking a broad prospect of the three Niagara Falls flows up to 1160 meters.
Now, Niagara Falls, surrounded by a lot of recreational facilities, the U.S. side can take the elevator deep underground tunnel, drill into the big waterfall, listen to the sound of thundering waterfalls to look at Great Falls, U.S. residents or tourists only go to Canada in order to complete waterfalls.
Came to the shore, walking close to 40 countries could feel the power of Great Falls.
Cliffs on the lake through the river bed 350 meters wide and the Goat Island (Coat
Island), is divided into two parts, 6% of the water, waterfalls flow down from the United States, other 94% of the water is shed from the Horseshoe Falls. Niagara Falls, the total maximum flow of up to 6000 cubic meters per second. However, only 30% of the water flow to the Niagara River valley faults to form a waterfall, the remaining 70% of the amount of water being used to generate electricity. In 1950 Canada and the United States signed an agreement, the two sides agreed to the tourist season must ensure that there is sufficient water falls, the current annual visitors come here to visit up to 14 million.
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