Day 35 2/8 Niagara Falls, Very Impressive!

After breakfast the first thing we decided to do this morning was to visit the tourist information centre to work out what to do to ensure we saw the most of Niagara. We decided to do an Adventure Pass that included a hop-on hop-off bus, and tickets to 4 main attractions at Niagara Falls. The first thing we did was a 4-D theatre experience called “Niagara’s Fury”. It was very well done and a told us much about the formation of the falls as well as giving us an experience of being in the falls…we were wearing ponchos and we were getting wet and the floor was vibrating. Following this we did a “Journey behind the Falls” tour. Here we were issued with ponchos once again and then went down an elevator to walk along tunnels built for hydro-electricity that were right behind the falls. This was quite a unique and wonderful experience, walking behind the falls and we got very wet! Following lunch we then did the White Water Walk. We caught the bus down the Niagara River and then took an elevator down to the lower level, close to the white-water rapids. These rapids are rated a level 6 and were mesmerising! The power of water is something that I just don’t tire of watching. We walked quite a way along the board walk. This was the area where the famous Blondin did his tight-rope walking stunts! We also visited another area called the whirpool before finishing with the most spectacular and memorable part of the day, a “Hornblower Niagara Cruise” which took us in extremely close to both falls. The wind, power and spray created by the falls is something that you need to experience to understand. We loved it! We completed the day with a huge dinner at the “Frontier BBQ and Steakhouse”.