Added: 05/30/2006 |
Open Newfoundland and Labrador For YourselfThe place where land, water, and sky embrace like old friends and the edge of North America holds an adventure as big as the sky is known as Newfoundland and Labrador. This site will show you the best ways to encounter a land old as time, and people who make you feel like you've known them all your life. Here the feeling that you visit something very familiar and dear doesn`t leave your for a moment - Newfoundland and Labrador always welcome you.
The Innu and Inuit are Labrador's indigenous peoples. Their history dates back many centuries, and it is they who first learned how to live in this land. In fact, the population of the Palaeo-Indians, who lived there 9,000 years ago, left the 7,500-year-old Maritime Archaic Indian burial site, which is the most ancient evidence of a funeral in North America. And Red Bay is where the Basque whalers, in the early 1500s, rendered whale oil for Europe, establishing the first industry in the new world. Not surprisingly, whaling, fishing, and fur trapping brought European settlement around 1700 to Newfoundland and Labrador. You can see how it was at Hebron, Hopedale, and Nain where original, preserved Moravian mission sites still hold out against the elements.
Newfoundland and Labrador make a border, where a completely new world begins - that one which is breathtaking and miraculous and even the places of interest acquire a new meaning and "taste".
First, visit Cape Spear, where Newfoundland's oldest surviving lighthouse has stood for 16 decades. The city of St. John's that started it all, the first in the New World is really a must -visit place in Newfoundland and Labrador. From the naturally-sheltered harbor, where 40 vessels lay anchored 40 years before the Mayflower landed there opens a magnificent sea view. It is the city where the oldest street in North America -Water Street is situated.
Gros Morne National Park is the most popular and treasured site in Newfoundland and Labrador and its exceptional beauty and unique geological features recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. The thing is that the park is made in a unique landscape -an ancient expanse of mantle rock, where colossal collisions of tectonic plates created formations as barren as the moon. The mass of rust-colored rocks neighbors with the Tablelands that is a 600-meter high plateau that forms one of the world's best examples of rock exposed from the earth's interior.
And then you will understand why Newfoundland and Labrador are called 'the land of the Titans'. But it is not enough- if you want some more extreme and adventure, hiking tours are always welcoming you. A serious hike takes you all the way to the top of Gros Morne Mountain and rewards you with an unforgettable view of Ten Mile Pond and the Long Range Mountains. You see, useless to hope that there are tracks ' for beginners', naturally there are, but not any beginner can afford climbing these very plateaus.
It is quite pleasant to have a tour along the fields with lichens, mosses, orchids and tuckamore trees - over thirty wild species in all. And after a tiresome but breathtaking tour you can luxuriate all pleasures of civilization in Newfoundland and Labrador hotels. Indeed, Newfoundland and Labrador are like no other place on the face of the earth. It is really useless to describe all the beauties of Newfoundland and Labrador - the really shifts all the expectations. Just coma here - to the place that will awaken your heart and soul.
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