Saturday, September 08, 2007

Niagara falls

niagara falls/toronto was the last stop of my US trip, oh well excluding new york which i was stranded in for a day. yet another beautiful place to add on to my memories.

reaching niagara falls in the morning after a 6 hour ride from philly. whoa, though i wasnt the one driving, i was accompanying bernard for 2/3 of the journey. boy am i sick of road trips now!

beautiful...rainbows can be seen everyday (except at night la)! rainbows are freeeee!

double rainbows..where is the pot of gold?

there's soo much water you would think water is free........where did all these water come from??

that's the rainbow bridge..is it? that joins the american falls to the canadian falls

imagine falling over the edge..

taking the mist of the maid, a yacht that will bring us really close to the falls and underneath the mist. all of us had to wear ponchos so that our clothes wont get wet from the mist.

on the maid of the mist

the BIG BIG mist from the falls. it felt like standing underneath a heavy shower when we were in th mist.

me and jens in ponchos again, going for the cave of the winds, another tour which allows us to walk really really close to the falls and even touch the water. we were soaking wet when we came to the 'hurricane deck', which had us standing almost directly below the fall, with the water splashing down! quite a scary sight really..but the water was so strong that i couldnt open my eyes fully. was afraid my contact lenses would get washed away too.

can you see those little dots of yellow? that's us!

me with my hair wet after the cave of the winds.

the 5 of us, terence the photographer

going to the winery...

this place supposedly makes the best ice wine in the world!

standing amidst rows and rows of ice wine grapes..

wine tasting

the niagara falls at the canadian side looked a little like universal studios cum vegas combined. it was bright lights and all.

it was a sunday, very crowded..

me and jens

the falls at night, all lit up in multiple colours, unforunately it was almost impossible to get a good shot because of the strong mist. the lens got all wet and everything.

we also managed to catch the fireworks over the niagara falls. this was the 3rd fireworks display i've watched in US and 5th one i've seen this year. haha..still nice i guess..

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