We went to Niagara Falls, walked through the park , looked at the falls, had some delicious Hard Rock Café AND we saw Canada (closest I’ve ever been to Canada 😀 ). We chose this tour because we didn’t have a lot of time to go away. We did the “two days and one night Niagara tour”. The cost of the “tour” includes a bus ticket and the night at the hotel. They have a “pay for two, get one free deal”, which a good deal if you decide to do your own stuff and pay your own entrances. Just watch out, some of these tour companies try to get you to do all the activities and if you book activities through them you actually end up paying more than what it really costs – luckily we only did one extra activity through the tour and for the rest we made our own plans.
- Our tour started on Saturday we had to be on the bus by 08:00. We departed from Chinatown, close to the Manhattan Bridge and it was just a 20min subway ride (yay Park Slope :D). We sat on the bus for a reaaally long time but we enjoyed the views and we even kind of enjoyed all of the sitting. About halfway we stopped at Corning – and we skipped the glass museum for the Rockwell museum. We soon found out it’s NOT the Norman Rockwell museum, but another rich Rockwell that bought art for a museum (something like that). Luckily the museum was in a nice part of the town and we decided to skip the museum to rather walk around the historic part of Corning and go for lunch:
- After another few hours of sitting we finally arrived at Niagara Falls (some people believe the word “Niagara” is derived from a native word meaning “thundering waters. It’s quite interesting to know that Victoria falls in Zambia were referred to as “Mosi Oa Tunya” meaning “the smoke that thunders” in the native language of the region). We explored all around, looking at the Falls from every possible angle from the American side. Afterwards we had dinner at the Niagara Falls Hard Rock Café.
Falls selfie – skies Stephan…
mi madre y mi marido (see, I’m learning Spanish :D)
exploring the Falls
looking at Canada from the American side
Ta daaaa!
Dinner at Hard Rock Café at Niagara Falls
Dinner at Hard Rock Café at Niagara Falls
- We started our Sunday by waiting for some of the people of our group to finish a boat ride a little further away from the falls (it was Sunday morning and Easter weekend as well, in a really small town and everything was closed so we couldn’t even buy coffee somewhere else) – we took some really nice pictures of the water here – and afterwards we went to Old Fort Niagara, a really cool old French fort.
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the picture I was busy taking in the previous picture
at the French Fort
at the French Fort
at the French Fort
Over the bridge (in the bus) almost at Niagara falls
the last stop
- The last stop was whirling waters (or something like that) and then we headed back to New York City and arrived nine hours later, had a quick cerveza, wine and cider at Union Hall, the cooolest bar we know of (so far). You can also play “bocce” here.
- Read Part 3 for the second week of my lovely NY visiting mother!
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