Lagos A Heart of Attractions with Modern Development

LAGOS PLACES TO VISIT

Lagos has maintained its reputation as one of the most desirable tourist destination. It is the largest city of Nigeria. This town is notable for its scenic coastline of beautiful beaches and amazing natural rock formation, nightlife and boutiques. This city has a lot in its history and now the modern developments make it even more glorious. Many places are attraction for tourist some of them are:

BEACHES:

If we say Lagos a town of beaches, then it would not be wrong. The two of its beaches including Praia de Dona Ana and Meia Praia are at walking distance from southwest of the town center. The shadow of sun in the afternoon at the beach is just simply adorable.

PONTA da PIEDADE:

Ponta da Piedade light house is a pathway which will take pedestrians to the lovely beach. It is the most famous natural landmark in Portugal. The huge rocks standing in the water are simply adorable. These hidden caverns can be explored by boat.

IGREJA DE SANTO ANTONIO/MUSEU MUNICIPAL:

It is one of the most inspiring culture combinations of these two places including Igreja de Santo Antonio and Museu Municipal. These two places together represent a great sight-seeing in the region. Firstly the visitors enter into the museum where they can see exhibition of photos of the Roman time. The tourists can spend an hour or more to observe this fascinating exhibition.

FORTE PONTA DA BANDEIRA:

The fort was built back in 17th century as a defending approach to Lagos Harbor. This pocket sized square shaped fort is still in good condition according to its age. The visitors approach is limited to a small 18th century chapel lined with pretty azulegos tiles and the exhibition of discoveries in Portugal’s era.

MERCADO DOS ESCRAVOS:

The slave market in Lagos is rather a darker side of Portugal history besides of its golden age of discovery. The building was built back in 1691 and was used as a custom office. But now this place is served as a small gallery having exhibitions charting Portugal’s shameful trade in human cargo and the roll of Lagos in its proliferation.

CENTRO CIENCIA VIVA DE LAGOS:

Live science exhibition and cultural center is a fun filled way to preach children about past and keep them cheerful and entertained. This will be much better if the weather is also in your favor. The interesting thing is that on the top floor of Lagos market, there is a light house where kids can have fun and learning of usage of semaphore flags to send signal.

MARINA DE LAGOS:

This place is an exciting destination for water lovers. Marina offers you all size and shaped motorboats and yatches, so you can tie up with this first class mooring facility. Along the border walks very good eateries make your time more pleasant. At night some cafes host live music and performance to entertain their guests.

PARQUE ZOOLOGICO DE LAGOS:

Lagos zoo is definitely another attraction for nature and animal lovers. When you are there rubber limbed gibbons, fur ball marmoset, marble eyed lemurs are some animals waiting for greeting you. The variety of birdlife is showcase in zoo. In addition the countryside shows their farm animals and Monkey Lake is picnic area for visitors.

Most Attractive Places to Visit in Canada

 

Canada Places to Visit

Canada; a country situated in North America is considered as among the most beautified countries in world. It has its own charm because of its uniqueness and beauty. If you all visiting Canada for holidays or if you are going to Canada to have a break from your daily life and to have some fun with your friends and family you surely need a list of places where you should go and make your time best as much as possible. Here are some of the places situated in Canada that will make your trip worthy and most enjoyable.

Niagara Falls:

If someone is looking for a natural crismatic attraction, the place which seems to be like out of the world, where you can just see the  beauty and have to admire it at its every level , then here is your destination. The Niagara Falls, it’s just simply love at first sight because of its marvelous waterfall, which you surely extol. Due to its natural beauty, a million of people across the world come here to visit Niagara Falls. One can see this beauty from very close distance if he is on roads moving parallel to this place. You can reach this place very easily if you are in Toronto as it just took an hour to be here from Toronto.

Banff National Park and Rocky Mountains:

The most famous scenery of Canada is Banff National Park right in the heart of the majestic Rocky Mountains. The beauty at its height. It is simple but a very peaceful place. The park has a lot of material which is the key to attract the tourists towards it including Turquoise green lakes, show-capped peaks and glaciers, simply make it love. A full package place for peace lovers and you can’t find a beautiful place better than this park. If you are admirer of natural beauty, the cynosure of Banff National Park is the Lake Lious known as a green water lake of mountain to which the lake is surrounding.  This adorable attraction has Ice-field Parkway that moves from this green water lake making your drive unforgettable.

WHISTLER:

A must see place in Canada, whistler. Whistler is a natural allure having mountain covered by snow. Due to its low temperature and awesome weather it was loved by tourist to be visited in summer. The place is much more developed on having golf court, mountain biking and a lively town. There is a great crowd of people from all over the world throughout the year.

OLD MONTREAL

The old Montreal a place with lovely antiquated buildings is a must see place for visitors. This place welcomes its visitors with full heart having a great dining and shopping. Horse –drown carriages take the tourist through the street which will make you feel like you are moving in 18th or 19th century. A different experience which will make you to just love it. Old Montreal has many places to see and enjoy including Rue Bonsecours, Marche Bonsecours, Place Jacques-Cartier, Notre-dame Basilica and the 1870s city Hall.

GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK:

What else would be more able to enhance the beauty of a place than parks? Besides of its other alluring attractions, Canada has most ravishing parks which will make a person simply to idolate it. The park has its own mountains, lakes and fjords. Beautiful landscape makes it real worthy and noticeable.