NOVA SCOTIA: 7 Days

Bay of Fundy and Cape Breton Island

This Nova Scotia holiday tour features two of Canada's major natural attractions, the Bay of Fundy, where you will witness the world's highest tides and the fabulous Highland Region of Cabot Breton Island.

DAY 1-3
The first destination on the program is Grand Pré National Historic Site on Fundy's Minas Basin. This exceptional site commemorates the tragic deportation of the French Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755 at the outset of the Seven Years War which permanently quashed France's colonial ambitions in North America. This eastern end of the Annapolis Valley is a scenic, pastoral fruit growing region with extensive dykelands that were originally reclaimed from sea during the seventeenth century by enterprising Acadian farmers.

From Grand Pré, our tour continues around the shoreline of the Bay of Fundy to Parrsboro, Five Islands, and Cape d'Or. Along this amazing shore, we witness the rhythmic oscillation and awesome dimensions of the world's highest tides. The captivating landforms and rock formations that define and distinguish the Fundy Shore are a porthole to one of the most intriguing periods of the earth's history, including the dawning of the age of dinosaurs and the rifting of the super continent Pangea.

DAY 4-6
Our tour of Cape Breton Island includes the island's Gaelic heartland, Mabou, and the distinctive Acadian Region further north is one of the areas where Nova Scotia's deported Acadians found a new homeland following their tragic deportation in 1755. Here, we begin our tour of the Cabot Trail: one of the most scenic coastal mountain drives in the world. The Cabot Trail snakes and winds along the shoreline, through the coastal mountains, and up onto the highland plateau of the Highlands National Park. The scenery is spectacular, and moose, bald eagles, and pilot whales are often sighted. An optional whale watching cruise (extra $) is available in season.

The next segment of the tour is devoted to Fortress Louisbourg National Historic Site on the eastern side of the island. Fortress Louisbourg, the largest historic reconstruction in North America, was a formidable French stronghold in Acadia. Louisbourg fell to the British in 1758 ending 150 years of conflict between the two colonizing nations in Atlantic Canada. Returning to the mainland, At Baddeck, we stop to visit the Alexander Graham Bell NationalHistoric Site.

DAY 7
Back on the mainland, on the return trip to Halifax, we will spend time in the historic Town of Pictou where Nova Scotia's first Scottish residents settled in 1773. On the Pictou waterfront we visit the Hector Heritage Quay Interpretative Centre. The Quay tells the story of Scottish immigration and settlement in Nova Scotia and includes an exact replica of the ship Hector which carried the first settlers to Pictou. Departs Halifax.

2010 Dates:
    June 14-20
    June 28 - July 04 (Wildflowers & Birds Tour)
    July 13-19
    August 09-15; August 22-28

Price:
    Double occupancy, per person: $ 2395 / $ 2275 US
    Single private room - add $ 415 / $ 394 US

    Prices include ALL taxes - 13% HST. Visitors to Canada may
    apply to Revenue Canada for a 50% tax rebate. US price
    subject to change as exchange rate changes.  more info

Inclusions:
    Lodging in inns, resort lodges/hotels, cabins - 6 nights. Guide and
    interpretation. Van transport. All meals, except breakfast on day-1 and
    supper on day-7.

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