When thinking about Canada, which is the first place that comes to your mind? I guess that it will definitely be a famous city but the truth is that all the specialists claim that the best things to be seen in Canada are far from those cities and waiting to be discovered by the few who have the courage to do it. Read the msnbc.com article below and discover more about it:
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Some of the most compelling places in Canada may never top a “best of” list, or even rate much of an entry in a guidebook. But the fact that lesser known destinations such as British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, with their bucolic setting and Mediterranean-like climate, don’t pull in the crowds the way that Banff or Niagara Falls do, can make them even more enticing.
“It’s the discovery of something unexpected — and extraordinary — in some of the most unlikely places that brings people back,” explains Carla Mont from Tourism B.C.
Popular tourist destinations are just that — well known and often over appreciated. But award-winning travel writer Amy Rosen says some of her best travel experiences have happened when she’s headed into the unknown, “I look at a map, find a place I’ve never been and then I look closer.”
Rosen says she discovered one of her favorite Canadian places after a floatplane journey into the heart of the Yukon’s Ruby Range Mountains took her to the secluded Tincup Wilderness Lodge. “It had everything — beautiful scenery, amazing food, quirky characters ...”Rosen says it’s the people who can make remote places interesting, “Everyone has something to say. They love where they live and want to show it off.”
Canada welcomes more than 17 million visitors a year. But with 90 percent of Canada's population living within 100 miles of the U.S. border, most visitors don’t venture very far into the hinterlands. Part of a visitor’s challenge is choosing where to go in the vast 3,851,809 square mile country. But the other challenge seems to be going home again once they’ve found that special place.
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