It was the time when I was in New Jersey, US a year back. It was my first onsite experience so I was obviously very ecstatic about it. So even before we left India we had jam packed schedule for weekend and nobody even bothered to utter a single work about the work we were supposed to do there. And as we reached there in September end it was already fall season and winter was about to begin. Rather people were saying we are having the extended fall this year and were blaming global warming for that. In US people have a single answer as global warming to every question. I am planning to use the same answer when my code will behave nastyJ.So, in our jam packed schedule the priority thing was obviously Niagara Falls. A tiring but much awaited whole weekend trip starting at early Saturday morning and ending at late Sunday night! As most of the things get closed due to snowfall in the NJ we were trying to cover as many things as possible. So even though it was hectic to go along with this trip we were not left with any other option. Anyway the trip started early in the morning at say 4.15-4.30AM. We all got ready by 5.15-5.30AM. Then we headed towards Red Bank station to catch the train towards 34th street Penn station in New York. We reached New York by 7.45AM and reached our destination Bowery Street in China town by 8AM. Here starts our trip officially.
It was a package tour from L&L Tours generally organized by and for Chinese people. So it was basically a bi-lingual trip (Obviously English and Chinese). Actually that made the trip all the more interesting. The schedule was to move from New York to New Jersey, from there to Pennsylvania and back to New York. If you are wondering why to travel so much instead of going straight a way from New Jersey then just to tell you this is the shortest path to follow. We crossed the Hudson River to enter New Jersey from New York while moving through small two lanes Holland tunnel named after Mr. Holland and which has no relation at all to country Holland. Our first destination was Thousand Islands.
Even though the name of the place is thousand islands actually there are 1764 islands with 2/3rd of them being on Canadian side and only 1/3rd of them on American side. Thank god we don’t need visa while being in water as we crossed the border and went to see some islands on Canadian side also. Great, Onsite in two countries at a timeJ. There are so many different types of houses, castles, light houses on those islands, most of them belonging to richest people in America and Canada. The fall season made it look all the more beautiful. I was really amazed to see the perfect blend of beauty of nature and human efforts to make it all the more beautiful. It was really a life time cherishing memory.
The next point was obviously the most awaited and most famous Niagara fall.
Till the time I reached there I was not really ready to accept that I am going to watch the Niagara Falls with my own eyes. It was awesome! Really once in life time opportunity! The vociferous Niagara Falls makes you aware of its presence even from a distance. This is how we start our Niagara journey and then you see that mammoth beauty! Water falling from the top, unstoppable wind flowing sprinkling water everywhere, you are completely drenched into the water looking at one the finest creation of nature. You are taken aback by the site. You lose your existence and become the part of the picture. The picture you will never forget in your life. It’s imprinted into your heart, Forever!!!
We first went to the Goats Island to have a look at the Niagara Falls and then we went very close to the falls with the famous ride called maid of the mist. Although due to time constraints we missed Winds of the caves which literally take you below Niagara Falls. Niagara is basically divided into three falls – Horse shoe falls, American fall, and Bridal fall. Horse shoe which has almost 90% of water flow belongs to Canada and rest is of US.
Our next destination was Corning Glass Museum, world’s biggest Glass Museum.
There they provide us with live demonstration of how to make glass products and tells us how many different types of glass are there. Do you believe there can be 65000 different types of glass present! Those are too many isn’t it? It was nice to see so many types of glass and so many things made up of glass. And you know something my best snap belongs to this section only and not the snaps of Niagara Falls! You can call me fool for that. I don’t mind.
So this is how the two days went and we hardly got some time to realize it. Time runs really very fast. We reached back New York by 9PM and started back journey to our Hotel in New Jersey with the warm memories of Niagara Falls and with the hope to see its night view sometime in future!
It was a package tour from L&L Tours generally organized by and for Chinese people. So it was basically a bi-lingual trip (Obviously English and Chinese). Actually that made the trip all the more interesting. The schedule was to move from New York to New Jersey, from there to Pennsylvania and back to New York. If you are wondering why to travel so much instead of going straight a way from New Jersey then just to tell you this is the shortest path to follow. We crossed the Hudson River to enter New Jersey from New York while moving through small two lanes Holland tunnel named after Mr. Holland and which has no relation at all to country Holland. Our first destination was Thousand Islands.
Even though the name of the place is thousand islands actually there are 1764 islands with 2/3rd of them being on Canadian side and only 1/3rd of them on American side. Thank god we don’t need visa while being in water as we crossed the border and went to see some islands on Canadian side also. Great, Onsite in two countries at a timeJ. There are so many different types of houses, castles, light houses on those islands, most of them belonging to richest people in America and Canada. The fall season made it look all the more beautiful. I was really amazed to see the perfect blend of beauty of nature and human efforts to make it all the more beautiful. It was really a life time cherishing memory.The next point was obviously the most awaited and most famous Niagara fall.
Till the time I reached there I was not really ready to accept that I am going to watch the Niagara Falls with my own eyes. It was awesome! Really once in life time opportunity! The vociferous Niagara Falls makes you aware of its presence even from a distance. This is how we start our Niagara journey and then you see that mammoth beauty! Water falling from the top, unstoppable wind flowing sprinkling water everywhere, you are completely drenched into the water looking at one the finest creation of nature. You are taken aback by the site. You lose your existence and become the part of the picture. The picture you will never forget in your life. It’s imprinted into your heart, Forever!!!We first went to the Goats Island to have a look at the Niagara Falls and then we went very close to the falls with the famous ride called maid of the mist. Although due to time constraints we missed Winds of the caves which literally take you below Niagara Falls. Niagara is basically divided into three falls – Horse shoe falls, American fall, and Bridal fall. Horse shoe which has almost 90% of water flow belongs to Canada and rest is of US.
Our next destination was Corning Glass Museum, world’s biggest Glass Museum.
There they provide us with live demonstration of how to make glass products and tells us how many different types of glass are there. Do you believe there can be 65000 different types of glass present! Those are too many isn’t it? It was nice to see so many types of glass and so many things made up of glass. And you know something my best snap belongs to this section only and not the snaps of Niagara Falls! You can call me fool for that. I don’t mind.So this is how the two days went and we hardly got some time to realize it. Time runs really very fast. We reached back New York by 9PM and started back journey to our Hotel in New Jersey with the warm memories of Niagara Falls and with the hope to see its night view sometime in future!
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