CANADA
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Capital: Ottawa

Language: English, French

Currency: Canadian Dollar

Do Indians need visa pre-arrival: Yes But substituted for Permanent residents of USA (require an Electronic Travel Authorization before travel).

Places I Visited:
• Montreal- perfect old town walk, excellent nightlife.
• Toronto- Largest city in the country, good for day tours, visit downtown.

MY STORY

From Cuba, I took a trip to Montreal Canada and lodged in a hostel where I contacted a friend of mine who I met in Colombia but resides in Montreal.

He promised he would pick me up from my hostel which he eventually kept. We went to a bar where we catch some fun filled moment.

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Street In Montreal

I slept over his place and was escorted by his friends early in the morning to catch up with a bus that will take me to my hostel.

Later in the day, he picked me up again, and we had Poutin, Montreal's famous food.

On the 3rd day, we had a party and I was so exhausted. I was not able to achieve anything.

The next day happens to be the 4th day, my friend and I went for a sunday picnic and we spent the whole day there.

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Picnic Party in Montreal

After the whole thing, I wanted to book a bus for a trip to Toronto the next day but couldn't get any. I resorted to using an online cab sharing cab service. The following day, I took a city bus to the meeting point and took cab share to reach Toronto.

On getting to Toronto, I went to my cousin's house who has been residing there for close to 15 years. I got to his residence in the evening time, and Next day I went to visit some of my old Indian friends using my cousin's car.

I even contacted my old travel friends, but I couldn’t meet any of them, so I went back home.

The following day, my cousin and his family were going on vacation for a week so I moved to a hostel in the downtown. Also ceased that very opportunity to join my friends on their trip to the Niagara Falls and that was how my dream of seeing the Niagara Falls in Canada was accomplished.

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Niagara Falls from Canadian Side

Next day I walked around in the downtown and Indian street of Toronto and later in the evening, I took a bus home to Philadelphia after 4.5 months of South America, Caribbean and Canada trip.