The largest city and main commercial center of Canada, Toronto attracts many with its shopping possibilities and high class cultural and entertainment facilities. However, it is also a charming lakeside city with good sporting facilities, interesting museums and science centers, hosting one of the world’s best zoos, as well as beaches and lovely nearby islands. Toronto is also a good starting point for a day-trip to one of the world’s most famous nature wonders, the Niagara Falls. In other words, Toronto is a destination with multiple choices for entertainment and activities!

Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto

Toronto – Fascinating metropolis a stone’s throw away from the Niagara Falls

With a good five million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, Toronto is home to great cultural diversity and many ethnic communities such as Greek Town, Chinatown, Little Moscow, and Little Italy are coloring the city. This South Canadian city by the Lake Ontario hosts high class museums and traditional villages picturing Canada’s history, as well as science centers showing nature wonders such as dinosaurs.

Sports city. Toronto is a sports city with good possibilities available for practicing many indoor and outdoor sports, as well as for watching ice-hockey, baseball, basketball or soccer matches. Pleasing sports enthusiasts even more, there are some interesting sports museums in Toronto, such as the Hockey hall of Fame. Biking or walking on the peaceful Toronto Islands is enjoyable, and also golf in Toronto is available. Toronto also offers popular lakeside beaches for swimming and sunbathing.

Toronto skyline

The theater scene of Toronto is widely appreciated, with also opera and ballet available. The most famous sights inside Toronto include Yonge-Dundas Square that hosts markets and outdoor events such as theater, sport shows and festivals, and Old Toronto’s Distillery district, which is a pedestrianized historical area. For culture lovers, there are plenty of interesting concerts in Toronto available. The Toronto Zoo is one of the world’s largest zoos, and the CN Tower is a landmark of Toronto as well as one of the world’s tallest structures. Nightlife in Toronto is very lively, offering something for everyone.

Toronto city view by night

Gate to Niagara Falls. Is spite of all Toronto’s attractions, the most magnetic sight is located an hour drive away from the city. Massive Niagara Falls with their distinctive horseshoe shape and the amazing amount of water falling down in Niagara River are without doubt one of the best known nature wonders of the world. In Niagara Falls you can not only admire the falls from a distance lookout spot, but also sail to the foot of the falls on a boat, the Maid of the Mist. Apart from the falls, the small town of Niagara Falls hosts gambling houses and some small hotels and restaurants that are particularly favored by honeymoon couples, many of whom test also the facilities of spas in Toronto.

Practical information for staying to Toronto

Weather in Toronto is characterized by cold winters and warm summers. Summertime (June-September) average monthly high temperatures range from 20 to 25 degrees of Celsius, and winter months (December-March) frequently meet temperatures below zero. The peak season for tourism in Toronto is during the summer, but depending on the purpose of your stay, also other alternatives are worth considering. Niagara Falls for example are at their best in spring.

Traveling to Toronto is easy with frequent flights to Toronto offered from many major airports of the world, and with good road and rail connections available from the USA and Canada. Trams, buses, and subway lines are available for public transport in Toronto, and ferries take you to the nearby islands. Rental cars in Toronto are also widely available.

Services inside the city are modern and efficient with a wide variety of hotels in Toronto around, as well as interesting row of restaurants in Toronto representing not only Canadian food culture, but also that of many ethnic minorities found in the city. Possibilities for shopping in Toronto are excellent, and restaurants and nightclubs of Toronto offer good entertaining facilities when the night falls. Staying in Toronto is quite safe, as it is one of the safest big cities in North America. However, you should take a good care of your belongings.