Top Ten things to do on your British Columbia cottage rental vacation

Versatile tourist attractions of British Columbia will leave you not much time to relax. Simply the place has too much to offer- spectacular harbor of Victoria, fantastic cityscape of Vancouver and mountains of Kamloops. While Victoria offers lot of thrills of the sea, it also has many things spread out for enjoyment. Vancouver has ample of attractions starting with enjoyment of sailing, canoeing, water sports, skiing and tracking in coastal mountains. Kamloops Mountain is well known for bike riding with beautiful, easy to access tracks for riders. British Columbia cottage rental is the only befitting way to be properly installed for enjoying this place.

Go whale watching in Victoria
Having come to Victoria, you must have the privilege of seeing these largest animals of creation in their natural habitat. The city has professional companies that guide the tourists with all modern facilities to watch killer whales.

Kabuki Kab Ride
A little cab attached to a bike may not sound something attractive, but take it for granted there is some unusual attraction to feel about. Kabuki Kab Rides take you around not at a high speed, but at an enjoyable pace of movement to devour scenic beauty of the place.

Horse Drawn Carriage Ride
Step into the old world on horse drawn carriage. A ride around the city on a horse drawn carriage offers a perfect charm of roaming about the town of Victoria in leisurely manner reminding of old times. These carriages are beautiful and nicely maintained by company having rights for operating the ride in Victoria.

Butchart Gardens
The most scenic park, Butchart Gardens, offers breathtaking closeness to astounding flora both during summer and winter seasons. It has striking vegetation and wonderful spread of floral colors. No single tourist gets tired of repeating visits to this garden in Victoria.

Water sports in Vancouver
Call any sort of popular water sports, Vancouver is naturally well fortified with rivers, lakes and coastline. Go out sailing, canoeing, rafting and anything that you are fond of, Vancouver has the facility. You are assured to be accompanied with spectacular viewing of beautiful coastline with contrasting snow-clad mountains.


Fishing in Vancouver
Island of Vancouver and Kootenay Rockies are main places with ample of scope for fishing salmon as well as cod, burbot, trout and whitefish. Fishing is allowed against securing license for enjoying the sport in over 200 lakes around Kamloop Mountains.

Watching whales
March is the month of migration of whales in Pacific Rim. You can see Pacific grey whales, the humpback whales and Mink whales as well the killer whales. The sandy beaches of Tofino and Ucluelet towns, close to Vancouver, offer better watching.

Skiing in Vancouver
Vancouver has all sources for varied type of skiing. Besides normal skiing, you can go for snowcat skiing or heli skiing, snowboarding and glacier skiing in summers. A number of skiers like running across distances by ski-touring.

Kamloops Heritage Railway's Steam Train
This ghost train offers on hour journey enacting an old train robbery. The steam locomotive is a great source of enjoyment for all the ages.

Biking in Kamloops
This beautiful mountain range has large tracts for biking to fully enjoy the undulating topography passing through canyons. There is ample of place well laid for cross country biking. Kamloops Bike Ranch is an expansive bike park well groomed to satisfy adventurous and tuff bikers.

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Top Ten things to do on your Nova Scotia cottage rental vacation

The historic Nova Scotia is always ready with ample of attractions for the tourists. Nova Scotia cottage rentals make your holidays most comfortable for enjoying the beauty to its fullest extent. Nova Scotia has historic fortresses- Louisbourg, Anne and Edward. It is an experience to be roaming in the past to feel the way of life in earlier generations. Joggins Fossil Center is accredited to be declared as a World heritage Center by UNESCO. Anyone visiting Nova Scotia can be assured of packed historic places as well very modern entertainment facilities offering a perfect combination of the past and present.

Fort Louisbourg, Annapolis
This fort had major involvement in Anglo-French struggle against North America. It reminds of a seizure by the British in 1768 and returned to France under a treaty. But, again in 1758 it was taken over by British force under a bloody war mounted over the French power. 

Fort Anne. Annapolis
This fort has also witnessed many encounters between the British and French rulers from 17th to18th centuries. The British people called the place as Nova Scotia and the French as Acadia.

Fort Edward, Annapolis
This fort can be seen as the reminiscent of earthwork used for defending forts. It was built in 1750 and stands as one of the oldest blockhouses in Canada.   

Upper Clements Parks
It is a premium amazement park of Canada which offers varied types of entertainment features. The rides provide specifically breathtaking view of Annapolis valley when it reaches you over treetops. You can enjoy all the attractions with discounted group rates or have fast passes. Clement Park also has an additional wildlife park.

Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens
The name of park serves both the purposes factually. The park houses heritage tapestry work of Europeans settled in Canada. It is a theme park that is appropriately linked with different sections of heritage collections on display. It is certainly a well laid beautiful garden with rich collection of flora.

North Hills Museum
This was in fact a private collection house with18th and 19thn century artefacts made of silver, Georgian glass and porcelain; as also old furniture of walnut and mahogany wood. In 1974, this marvellous collection house was turned as public property and now run by Historic Restoration Society of Annapolis. North Hill Museum is considered as a part of Nova Scotia Museum. It is located in Granville Ferry.

Shand House
This is a Victorian type of house built by Shands family in 1890s with awesomely features for then. These were electric lighting, central heating, indoor plumbing and closets. The tower of Shand House offers spectacular view of Windsor town’s river with large ships reminding of those days when the town was a major place of shipping industry. The house still preserves many of the family’s personal belongings, medallions and trophies.

Prescott House
This is a place where Charles Ramage Prescott cultivated and started Nova Scotia’s apple industry about 150 years ago. The house is now a museum located in Starrs Point.

Whale Interpretive Centre, Pleasant Bay
Particularly the coast along Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a well identified place for whale watching. The Interpretive Centre has been created to make the study of the cyclic feature of whale migration related to the oceanic environmental features. The center is also engaged in educating people about behavioral pattern of the whale.

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Top Ten things to do on your Saskatchewan cottage rental vacation

Vacation in Saskatchewan offer vast treeless grassy stretches and named after ‘Kisisskatchewan’ which stands for rivers in native language. The place is not a consistent prairie. But, also has abrupt variations with rivers and forests. Hence, the province supports two national parks namely Grasslands National Park in the southwest and Prince Albert National Park in the north of Canada. To make one astonished, Saskatchewan is said to have about 100,000 lakes, streams and rivers. It has enjoyable seclusion and more enjoyable with Saskatchewan cottage rental.

Abundance of Fishing
If you are interested in fishing you should be in Saskatchewan in winters. The normal season for fishing practically remains round the year.  You can have enormous scope of fishing in the water body strewn land. About 68 species of fish are found in Churchill and Lac la Ronge Rivers.

Heaven for birdwatchers
Over 300 bird species find their best natural nesting grounds in reserve sites of Lake Quill and Lake Chaplin. Some of the rare species found here are Peregrine falcons, Hudsonian godwits and Ferruginous hawks.

The outdoor adventures
There is no insufficiency in any way for outdoor adventure activities. You can go for anything like camping, canoeing, wildlife watching, boating, hiking and biking. The range of activity is laid open for you; select the ones you like and enjoy them. The availability adventure options will leave you in dismay to see the facilities even in remote wilderness of Saskatchewan. There are well defined routes for canoeing; you can row across vast expanse of water with full support of equipments and guide services if you want. However, the instructions are very clear and complete for the tourists to follow and enjoy best canoeing. You can explore the place best by biking. There are defined routes for biking.

Camping
There are scores of camping ground in the place with best facilities to offer the charm of sleeping under the sky.

Horse riding
Riding on horseback is a way of life in Canada, not a pleasure riding. You can have the joy of riding horses, the way done by natives. Certainly you will get full support and guidance for long runs thorough the grassland.

Big hunting ground
The southern section of prairie land and northern wooded section provide good scope of hunting, being the natural habitat of wildlife. Water bird hunting is specifically favored due to abundance of geese, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, ducks and Sharp-tailed grouse. Land animals easily available for hunting are moose, white-tailed deer and black bear. However, there is restriction on hunting elk, antelope and mule deer.

Winter sports
Saskatchewan has the facilities for skiing, skating and ice hockey. There are plenty of identified skiing locations.

Enjoy festivals
It is totally different experience to participate in festivals exclusive to certain areas. A number of annual festivals are held in Saskatchewan. These are arranged with more pomp and gay by the hotels and fully participated by tourists. Regina is one of these, celebrated for several days in the month of August. The same is seen for annual festival called Frontier Days.

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