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Thursday, August 8, 2013

  • High Park's little secrets that you won't find in any travel guide

    First let me begin by saying, it does not matter when you come to Toronto, be it summer or winter or fall or spring, high park is beautiful during every season (my personal favorite is winter.) High Park is huge and apart from the myriad of events it hosts, including Jazz, Concerts, Children Shows it also contains a petting lama zoo, ice rink, tennis courts, baseball and soccer fields.

    Nature 
    There is a lot to see. The best thing to do is to wonder off into one of the paths, off of the main road which loops around the park and walk inside. You will easily see squirrels, chipmunks, ducks, herrings,, Geese (oh so many Geese in this city) and swans. There is an ABUNDANCE of swans. If you go there and don't see any it is very strange. Whats great is that every now and then you can see a little baby swam  with its parents like this one:




    But the more interesting part is the animals which are a little harder to find. If your an Adventurer coming back at a different time can lead you to more exciting encounters. At night it is well known that a coyote (or wild dog I'm not sure, what the difference anyways?) lives in this park and comes out to hunt. Another interesting animal which you can spot with a little bit of work is a deer. I have ran into a few on my treks there, although they were well off the main path, and you do need to cross the river to a smaller "island" on the east side of the park. Be careful though, they are dangerous, especially when travelling within a family, they can become very defensive, and you do not wish to meet their father with his horns. However this encounter is incredibly magical, paradoxically the baby deer that travel with their parents are extremely curious and friendly to come and interact with you, and when considering the fact that this is taking place in the middle of the city its PRETTY DAMN COOL!

    A Hidden Gem
    There are a lot here and I will write about them in a different post, but for now I will just share one. Deep into the park, if you can find it (I will not tell you where for it will not be as satisfying for you to find it if you know where) there are wood carving of faces, carved right into the trees. For Game of Thrones lovers it is very similar to a Weirwood tree. And they look like this:





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  • Welcome! A little about this blog!

    I know! Not another travel guide by some one who thinks that they are better than the myriad of blogs and guides already available. But I wanted to make this different, because most Toronto Travel Guides suck. I mean really suck! There is really SOO much to see and SOO many little things that are excluded from the published and established travel guides and blogs that it makes you wonder if the people writing them even visited Toronto! (like Lonely Planet or Trip Advisor - which is sad because Lonely Planet is my favorite.) At any rate, while I will write brief reviews of main attractions what I will concentrate on this blog is the details of the city that everyone else misses! The little and amazing things that aren't overshadowed by the CN Tower - see what I did there - and that actually make Toronto what it is!
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