Touching Things in Canada

My favorite country to visit is Canada. There are many touching sights, climate, and kindness of people that I was completely impressed when I experienced at the first time. Now, I would like to introduce you these touching things that I moved.

First of all, Niagara Falls is most popular place to visit in Canada for outsiders. The Niagara Water Falls located at the Niagara River which connecting two large bodies of water. It is 58 kilometers and it starts at Lake Erie flowing north to Lake Ontario. Water entering the Niagara River represents approximately 20% of the world's fresh water. The Niagara River divides two great countries Canada & USA. Just before the falls sites, the Niagara River splits to two and forms 2 waterfalls. The American Falls & the Canadian Horse shoe fall. In our day tour we will not cross the border to the USA, the Canadian side of the border provides a great view of both waterfalls. Peak numbers of visitors occur in the summertime, when Niagara Falls is both a daytime and evening attraction. The number of visitors in 2008 is expected to total 20 million and by 2009, the annual rate is expected to top 28 million tourists a year. The oldest and best known tourist attraction at Niagara Falls is the Maid of the Mist boat cruise, which has carried passengers into the whirlpools beneath the fall. You can see, hear, and feel the awesome power of Niagara Falls.

Secondly, because the climate in Canada is so particular, you can see many rare natural phenomena. When I had been in Manitoba province as an exchange student, I had wonderful experiences. In Manitoba, though it is going to be like 30 degrees in Summer, it is going to be -40～-50 degrees in Winter. Of course, you cannot stay in outside so long in winter, but you may see what you have never seen before. Do you know sundogs? It typically, but not exclusively ,appear when the sun is low, and the atmosphere is filled with ice crystal forming cirrus clouds, but diamond dust and ice fog can also produce them. They are often bright white patches of light looking much like the sun or a comet. I thought sundogs as a little rainbow around the sun. It was just wonderful and fantastic! You can see frost flowers which, I thought, looks like cherry blossoms. Frost flowers occur when there is very cold wind blowing over branches of trees, poles and other surfaces. It looks like rimming the edge of flowers and leaves and usually it forms against the direction of the wind. It can occur at any hour of day and night.

Finally, I was so impressed by the kindness of Canadian people.
As an exchange student, I stayed with a family in Canada for a year. They treated me as a real member of their family. Not only this family, but also their neighbors, school friends, teachers and people I asked for help to. I could not help feeling their love everyday life in Canada.

All of these – the touching view of Niagara Falls, frost flowers and kindness of people, I really liked Canada and I would like to visit there again to see those I have been impressed.