Roaming around in Toronto is made a lot easier because of the City Pass. This basically gives you access to 6 or so places frequented by most visitors to the city and at quite a discount compared to if you had to go to each of the places separately. The problem is that you need to cover all these places in 9 days! Thats really not my kind of thing. Its too rushed, in my opinion.
The city pass lets you see:
- The CN Tower
- Casa Loma
- The Royal Ontario Museum
- The Hockey Hall of Fame
- The Ontario Science Centre
- The Toronto Zoo
The places that we decided to visit were all except The Hockey Hall of Fame (Cause I know nothing about Ice Hockey) and The Toronto Zoo (Cause I don’t fell right that the animals come out in the cold to entertain me). I have already written about my Casa Loma visit. So here are my views on the other places that I had been to.
The CN Tower is not a bad place to go to, if only once. It clearly stands out among the other building of downtown Toronto. In the end, once you get up there, there really isn’t much to do. The slightly enthusiastic guide in the elevator ride up to the observation deck clearly fails to create excitement.
Just below the observation deck is the glass floor (ooohhh). That’s a pretty common fixture in any tower of any decent height. It’s weird to first step onto it… and not expect it to crack! As your confidence builds up with each step you can then try various things on the floor like jumping, lying down and other such stuff. If you lie down, you can see the camera mounted on top to take photos of tourists who are… lying down.
Then you go round and up to the observation deck with the restaurant and the run-on-dollar-coins binoculars and try to see if there is anything interesting going on on the rooftops of Toronto. Obviously, nothing is going on up there so you move on to look at the lake taking up most of the view and see if there is anything interesting going on there. Yeah… nothing…
Then you finally see the small airstrip on a reclaimed piece of land and finally have something interesting to look at. Planes taking off and landing! No… you don’t… It’s clearly a slow day for the airstrip… and your luck.
Since I had gone in the day, I felt that I should have come in the night. That’s when the place is lit up and the streets of downtown look festive with all the Christmas lights and stuff. Empty space in the day are turned into lighting shows in the night. That would have been good to look at. Though we did see them from street level later, arial views are any day better.
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Abhilash is a part time blogger and blogs about photography, technology and travel. When not blogging Abhilash is either selling outsourcing solutions to companies or indulging in marathon episodes of various science fiction shows and movies.
