Top 10 Tourist Places In Canada

Canada has very big foreign and domestic tourism industry with beautiful tourist places in Canada which are must to visit. Canada’s incredible geographical variety makes Canada, the second largest country in the world.

Much of the tourism in Canada is centered in some regions like Ottawa, Okanagan Valley, Calgary/Canadian Rockies, Vancouver Island, Niagara Falls, Vancouver/Whistler, Montreal, and Toronto. Below are the top 10 tourist places in Canada:

1. Gros Morne National Park: The Gros Morne National Park is one of the very popular tourist destinations in Newfoundland because its ancient rocks help people to understand that how the continents and oceans were created. This park is a paradise for the nature lover that features the lowlands along the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This park is also very popular place for the wildlife viewers who’ll see and enjoy everything from the tiny songbirds to the giant whales; deer, moose and black bears are common. Visitors come to this place during the summer season.

2. Calgary Stampede: The Calgary Stampede is the most famous rodeo in the world. The Stampede attracts the best cowboys in the world who compete there for a prize money of $2 million. Other activities in Calgary Stampede include dancing, lots of food, a carnival, and live concerts.

3. Victoria’s Inner Harbour: The Victoria’s Inner Harbour is one of the coolest places to visit on Vancouver Island. You can see water on the one side and state government buildings on the other side since Victoria became the capital of British Columbia, Canada. This city hosts a very beautiful classic boat festival on the Labour Day in September, with the harbor filled up with wooden boats.

4. Bay of Fundy: The Bay of Fundy is located on the Atlantic coast in eastern Canada and is famous for its high tides. Because of its unique and wonderful shape of the bay, the difference in the water level between low tide and high tide may be around 16 meters which means 52 feet.

5. Jasper National Park: The Jasper National Park is one of the largest parks of Canada’s Rocky Mountain Park that boasts wild rivers, alpine meadows, forests, glaciers, rugged mountains, and broad valleys. Its top attraction is Athabasca Falls, it is a beautiful waterfall which thunders through a very beautiful narrow gorge.

6. Churchill: This may be a small town having 1,000 residents in the Manitoba province on the shore of the Hudson Bay, but Churchill get a huge amount of crowd each year to see the polar bears, its most famous inhabitants. This place has been nicknamed as “The Polar Bear Capital of the World,” and is the top tourist attraction in Canada. In addition to the polar bears, Churchill is a very popular destination to see the aurora borealis, birds and beluga whales.

7. Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls is having around three falls simultaneously on the border between Canada and the United States. Horseshoe Falls is the largest falls among these three falls and is situated on the Canadian side, whereas the smaller are American and Bridal Veil falls located on the U.S. side. Niagara Falls is having a higher flow rate than any other falls in the world. Around 20 million people from different countries in the world visit here every year.

8. The Canadian: The Canadian is a train for the Travelers who look around for a relaxing way to cross Canada. Connecting Vancouver and Toronto, this train is one of the world’s famous train, that travels through the lakes of the northern Ontario and the Canadian Rockies including Jasper National Park. It takes around 3 days to cover 4,466 kilometers connecting two cities.

9. Vieux-Québec: Vieux-Québec is an old historic district located in Quebec City. This is the place where Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer founded Saint Louis Fort in the year 1608. Now, this place is a wonderful tourist district with a number of small boutiques and hundreds of photographic point of interest. Visitors enjoy the charm of European styled shopping at this place on the Rue Saint-Jean.

10. Moraine Lake: The Moraine Lake is located in the Banff National Park and is the most photographed place in western Canada. This glacier-fed lake is a blue-green lake surrounded by the beautiful mountains in Alberta. It is situated in the Valley of Ten Peaks at an elevation of around 1,885 meters that means 6,183 feet.

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