Niagra Falls

Doing a day trip to Niagra from Toronto was certianly a wise decision. We left round 8.30am and it was a full day. Niagra falls is as spectacular as you would imagine, its gorgeous and reminds me alot of Victoria falls in Zimbabwe.

After walking along the falls and viewing them for about a 1km, obviously with many other sight see'ers we then got on the Maid of the Mist boat where you all get issued with blue rain coats as you will see from the pics and then its into or as close to the falls as you can possibly get, which is close as you get totally drenched but its good fun and a great experience.

Boat trip complete a walk in to Niagra village was the order of the day and man is that commerical its like being in how i would imagine Las Vegas, and totally geared for kids. I did surcumbe to going on the ferris wheel as i wanted a different view point of the falls and i wasnt dissapointed it was well worth my $10!

Its quite interesting that Niagra falls is basically split between the US and Canada and the smaller falls are in the US and the larger ones in Canada which I think definately pleases the Canadians, not to mention that there is constant bickering about which one is highest. There is a boarder post just on the bridge where you can cross over into the states, obviously with a passport and if required a valid visa. Our tour guide told us that only 50 million americans have passports which makes you wonder about the other 250 million. Apparently since the recent ruling of everybody having to show their passports at border posts, tourism has dropped dramatically at Niagra, interesting, eh?

See more pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/sbramhall/TorontoDay2NiagraFalls#