Touring Niagara Falls and the Surrounding Area - My Gateway Vacation

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Monday, June 2, 2008

Touring Niagara Falls and the Surrounding Area



Those individuals visiting Niagara Falls may want to take advantage of the numerous tours available. From guided to self-guided tours, tourists are bound to find a tour that is exciting and memorable. Plus, tours are offered with a variety of services and many tours vary in terms of the traveling accommodation: there are bus tours, limo tours, boat tours, and walking tours all available while visiting the Niagara Falls region.

Tourists can explore the Niagara Falls region in style when they book one of several limo tours available. View the city's sites while riding in a climate controlled limo. Some touring packages even offer picnic options to tourists. Further, tourists viewing the sites in Niagara Falls can choose their destination: check out great places like Buffalo, Lewiston, the Lower Niagara River, and Niagara on the Lake, Old Fort Niagara and Toronto during a stay in Niagara Falls.

Bus tours offer site seeing opportunities equal to those of limo tours. Depending on the package a tourist selects, they can take a ride on the world famous Maid in the Mist, and see fantastic sites like the Dufferin Islands, the International Control Dams, the Marineland in Niagara, the Niagara Parks Greenhouses, the Old Marooned Scow, the Sir Harry Oakes Estate and the Toronto Power Plant. Further some bus touring packages also have site seeing opportunities that include the Angel Inn, the Apothecary Museum, Fort George, Fort Niagara, the Shaw Theatre and the Old Town Clock.

Walking, self-guided tours can be taken any time at the Whirlpool Park. A walking tour along the hiking trails in Whirlpool Park takes roughly three hours to complete. One final note: tourists looking to book tours in Niagara Falls should remember that some tours are only offered on a seasonal basis.

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