TORONTO with the CN Tower Defining Its Skyline, Canada’S Largest City Attracts Visitors with Its Unique Neighborhoods and Urban Sophistication
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INSPIRING STUDENT TRAVEL ® TORONTO With the CN Tower defining its skyline, Canada’s largest city attracts visitors with its unique neighborhoods and urban sophistication. As one of the most multicultural metropolises in the world, the city hosts over 140 languages. Why Brightspark? Quality, Custom Tours Our programs are designed for you, by you. From STEM-based Safety And Security DC tours to performance trips to some of our country’s top music We regularly conduct strict audits of our vendors, ensuring they cities, we have a destination for every budget and every passion. act in accordance with safety, security, and quality standards. Industry Experience Our Tour Directors With over 50 years of experience providing custom tours, You deserve the best, so we only use experienced and Brightspark is a leader in student travel. enthusiastic Tour Directors who are experts on their destinations. Travel Protection & Incident Coverage With our 24/7 emergency hotline, comprehensive general insurance, and an industry-leading refund guarantee program, we’ve got you covered. brightsparktravel.com SAMPLE ITINERARY ® TORONTO Day 1: Day 3: • Meet your Tour Director and board your private motor coach. • Go under the sea at Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, home of • Tour Casa Loma, a Gothic Revival mansion that serves as a North America’s longest underwater viewing tunnel, with historic museum. Now a local landmark, it took three years almost six million liters of water and more than 100 interactive (and 300 men) to build the 200,000 square foot castle in opportunities. Meet horseshoe crabs, sharks, and stingrays at the early 1900s. The house features intricate decorations, a touch exhibit, and be sure to catch a live dive show during five acres of gardens, and a series of underground tunnels your visit. The aquarium’s nine galleries let you view fresh and connecting the estate. saltwater habitats from around the world, including species from the nearby Great Lakes Basin. • Experience hockey at its best at the Hockey Hall of Fame! The home of the Stanley Cup offers an interactive journey through • Explore Kensington Market and Chinatown. Two of the most Canada’s favorite sport. Go up against life-size animations of culturally diverse areas of Toronto, these colorful side-by-side today’s greatest players, become a play-by-play announcer, neighborhoods are full of street-side vendors and vintage view priceless memorabilia, and watch hockey’s first 3D film. clothing shops. • Head to the top of the CN Tower. The world’s 9th tallest • Tour Rogers Centre, home of the Toronto Blue Jays since freestanding structure, standing over 1,800 feet tall, was 1989. Formerly known as the SkyDome, the multipurpose named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the stadium also hosts concerts by some of the biggest names American Society of Civil Engineers. The Toronto skyline icon in music. The stadium is well-known for its retractable roof, a features glass elevators offering views of the city as you reach groundbreaking innovation when it was first built in 1989. the Glass Floor, the Outdoor Observation Terrace, and the • Root for the home team at a Toronto Blue Jays game. Indoor Lookout Level. (Seasonal, pending home schedule) Day 2: Day 4: • Travel to Niagara Falls, three waterfalls that line the border • Go into the wild at the Toronto Zoo! Interactive exhibits between Ontario in Canada and New York in the United States. offer a unique wildlife experience that inspires visitors to Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls range champion and protect our wildlife habitats. Your visit takes between 70 to 188 feet high and offer stunning views of the you on a worldwide journey with southeast Asian tigers and Niagara River as it heads toward Lake Ontario. During peak orangutans, rainforest reptiles, African rhinos and giraffes, hours, more than six million cubic feet of water rumble over over 100 species of fish from the Great Barrier Reef, and more. the crest of the falls each minute. • Enter the curious and creative world of the Ontario Science • Hop aboard the Maid of the Mist. Your boat tour will take Center. One of the world’s first interactive science museums, you on a roaring adventure down the Niagara River, past the OSC provides lifelong learners opportunities to learn American and Bridal Veil Falls and into the mist of Horseshoe about Canadian inventions and innovations, experience Falls. the intersection of art and science, experience live stage presentations, or conduct your own experiments! • Enjoy lunch in Clifton Hill. • Depart for home. • Journey Behind the Falls as you descend 125 feet into 130-year-old tunnels. You’ll hear the thunderous Horseshoe Falls well before you step out onto the observation deck at the foot of the falls. The experience offers a unique view as one- fifth of the world’s fresh water crashes down before your eyes..