Atlantic provinces, 7 days
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Atlantic Canada. Halifax - Halifax / 7 days.
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Day 1 Halifax - Oak Island (OakIsland)
9:00 Meeting with a Russian-speaking guide in the hotel lobby. A tour of Halifax.
The historic part of town. Fort George is now a British military museum.
Three military companies at Fort George.
Botanical Park. Halifax Center. We will walk with you through the cozy streets of the city. You will find out what the first Anglican Church in Canada is famous for. We will walk along the city promenade and visit the memorials to the lost Canadian ships.
Here you will learn the history of the most monstrous tragedy of Halifax and get acquainted with its actors.
Monuments to the founders of the city and its first settlers. Halifax as the main gateway to migration to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Next, on our way to the Memorial to the Victims of the Titanic Shipwreck, here you will learn many amazing details about the dead and saved passengers in this cruel tragedy of the early 20th century.
12:00 Departure from Halifax, continuation of the tour. Experience the historic cities of Nova Scotia. Moving to Cape Peggis. Old fishing village and famous lighthouse. The granite cape marks the boundary of the collision between the two anciently colliding continents of Meguna and Avalon.
You will see magnificent landscapes and find out who scattered colossal fragments of granite rocks along the banks of clean rivers and transparent lakes.
Lunch (option) in a restaurant with ocean views. The restaurant always has fresh lobsters and other seafood.
Next, our way lies on the famous “Treasure Island”. Here you will learn the history of piracy in New England, we will tell about the famous thugs of that cruel era: Blackbeard, Kiche and Saladin, we will introduce you to the intriguing history of the mysterious island, which for 300 years continues the search for the most expensive treasure in history.
You will also learn about the first black millionaire of Nova Scotia planter Bow, about where the young lawyer and future US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt buried his money back in 1909. And that connects the unfortunate French King Louis 16th with the Canadian Oak Island.
We will also talk about the geological features of the island, who are its true secret owners and why its value has reached an astronomical value of half a billion dollars.
And, of course, we will introduce you to the latest news about the summer season of excavations on the island last year.
Night at the OakResort.
Day 2. Oak Island – Fox Harb’rResort.
Arrival in Mahony Bay and Lunenburg, founded in the first half of the 18th century.
You will learn the uniqueness of Lunenburg, an architectural monument under the protection of UNESCO, and why this city, which was for many years at the epicenter of the Anglo-French wars, was never destroyed or conquered.
A short tour of Lunenburg. St. John's Church, 1750.
Memorial to the founders of the city and the preserved old blockhouse. Homes of the first settlers and their history.
You will learn why and how a fragment of the Berlin Wall, which was destroyed in 1991, came to Lunenburg.
Walk along the waterfront.
Departure from Lunenburg, then our way lies in the distant 1605 to the ancient Royal Fort - the place of foundation of the first European colony on the North American continent.
In 1499, the Venetian merchant Giovanni Cabotti opened the lands of modern Canada to the British.
As Jacques Cartier searched for a short route to the country of Kitan, and found in 1534 Newfoundland and Labrador. As a simple French sailor, Samuel Champlain became a personal royal geographer and in 1604 discovered New Brunswick, and then the Gulf of France and the peninsula he called New France, and also the island he named Saint John.
Then we will visit the ancient Fort Charles and Fort Anna, where, in fact, began a series of more than 150 years of wars between Britain and France for colonies in North America.
A night in rhizome on the shore of Fox Bay.
Day 3. Fox Harb'rResort is Shediak.
Meeting with a guide and visiting HopewellRocks National Park, located in the Bay of Fundy. It is here that the world’s largest tides are observed. During low tide you can walk on the bottom of the ocean. Photographing picturesque grottoes and “walking rocks”.
Moving to the world capital of lobsters (omars).
Dinner with fresh lobster and other seafood (optional).
Overnight in Shediak, HotelShediac.
Day 4. Shediac as Charlottetown, Prince Edward.
Departure to the picturesque island-garden PrinceEdward and the province of Atlantic Canada. The Confederate Bridge is the longest bridge in America (14 km). On the island we will visit Cavendish National Park, a historic fishing village, the house-museum of the most famous Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote the world-famous women's novel Anne from Green Gables.
You will learn a lot about the fantastic rise of Lucy Montgomery’s popularity and her tragic fate.
We will visit the virgin seaside protected dunes and the magnificent ocean beaches of the island.
We will visit the capital of the province of Charlottetown, the city where the Declaration was signed on the creation of the Union for the formation of a new federal state dominion of the British Empire - Canada.
A night in Charlottetown.
Day 5: Charlottetown, Prince Edward - Beddeck, Nova Scotia.
A ferry crossing to Nova Scotia. We continue our journey through Nova Scotia. You will learn why Cape Breton is still spoken on the Gali River. You will have the opportunity to see with your own eyes the ship, which sailed the first 189 people from Scotland, chased by the "Sweeping Highlands" in their country.
We will visit the museum of the brilliant inventor Alexander Bell.
Dinner at BaddeckLobsterSupper Restaurant. Night in Beddeck.
Day 6. Beddeck, Nova Scotia - CabotTrail - Louisburg - Sydney.
CabotTrail is considered one of the most beautiful roads in the world. You will be amazed at the variety of landscapes: waterfalls,
The bottom of the roben, observation decks on high cliffs, clean beaches.
We will visit the historic city of Fort Louisburgh. Night in Sydney.
Day 7. Sydney is Halifax.