Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander the waterfront in Halifax, gorge on lobster at a local town hall and relive your childhood in the home of Anne of Green Gables -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island Travel Guide: Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - art, history, maritime music, art, local cuisine, landscape, wildlife Over 15 maps Covers Halifax, Fredericton, Charlottetown, St John, Sunrise Trail, Fundy Isles, Newfoundland, Labrador and more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island, our most comprehensive guide to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet Canada guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Sujets

• Nueva Escocia
• Canadá
• Nova Scotia
• Canada
• Nouvelle-Écosse

Informations

• Publié par: Lonely Planet Global Limited
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781787010291
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 33 Mo

Extrait

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island

Contents

Plan Your Trip

Welcome to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island's Top 10
Need to Know
If You Like
Month by Month
Itineraries
Outdoor Activities
Travel with Children
Regions at a Glance

On The Road

Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Highlights
Halifax
Around Halifax
Dartmouth
Peggy's Cove
South Shore
Chester
Mahone Bay
Lunenburg
Liverpool
Kejimkujik National Park
Shelburne
Acadian Shores
French Shore
Yarmouth
Annapolis Valley
Long Island
Brier Island
Digby
Bear River
Annapolis Royal
Wolfville & Grand Pre
Windsor
Central Nova Scotia
Shubenacadie
Maitland
Truro
Economy & Five Islands
Parrsboro
Advocate Harbour
Sunrise Trail
Tatamagouche
Pictou
New Glasgow
Antigonish
Cape Breton Island
Ceilidh Trail
Cabot Trail
The Far North
Baddeck
North Sydney
Sydney
Louisbourg
Eastern Shore
Guysborough
Canso
Tangier
New Brunswick
New Brunswick Highlights
Fredericton
Upper St John River Valley
Mt Carleton Provincial Park & the Tobique Valley
Grand Falls
Edmundston & Around
Western Fundy Shore
St Stephen
St Andrews By-The-Sea
New River Provincial Park
Fundy Isles
Deer Island
Campobello Island
Grand Manan Island
Saint John
Eastern Fundy Shore
St Martins
Fundy National Park
Alma
Cape Enrage & Mary's Point
Southeastern New Brunswick
Moncton
Sackville
Northumberland Shore
Cape Jourimain
Shediac
Bouctouche
Kouchibouguac National Park
Miramichi River Valley Area
Miramichi
Miramichi River Valley
Northeastern New Brunswick
Caraquet
Bathurst
Campbellton
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island Highlights
Charlottetown
Eastern Prince Edward Island
Wood Islands
Montague & Georgetown
Souris
Saint Peter's Bay to Mt Stewart
Central Prince Edward Island
Victoria
Prince Edward Island National Park
Brackley Beach
Rustico & North Rustico
New Glasgow
New London
Kensington
Cavendish
Western Prince Edward Island
Summerside
Tyne Valley
Tignish & North Cape
Newfoundland & Labrador
Newfoundland & Labrador Highlights
St John's
Avalon Peninsula
Southeastern Avalon Peninsula
Baccalieu Trail
Cape Shore
Eastern Newfoundland
Trinity
Bonavista
Burin Peninsula
St-Pierre & Miquelon
Central Newfoundland
Terra Nova National Park
Gander
Twillingate Island & New World Island
Fogo Island & Change Islands
Grand Falls-Windsor
Central South Coast
Northern Peninsula
Deer Lake
Gros Morne National Park
Port au Choix
St Barbe to L'anse aux Meadows
St Anthony
Western Newfoundland
Corner Brook
Blomidon Mountains
Port au Port Peninsula
Port Aux Basques
Cape Ray
South Coast
Killick Coast
Labrador
Labrador Straits
Northern Coast
Central Labrador
Labrador West

Understand

Understand Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & PEI Today
History
Maritimes Music
Atlantic Canadian Art
Food & Drink
Landscape & Wildlife

Survive

Directory AZ
Accommodation
Customs Regulations
Discount Cards
Electricity
Food
Health
Insurance
Internet Access
Legal Matters
LGBTI Travellers
Maps
Money
Opening Hours
Post
Public Holidays
Telephone
Time
Tourist Information
Travellers with Disabilities
Visas
Volunteering
Women Travellers
Work
Transport
Getting There & Away
Getting Around
Language
Behind the Scenes
Our Writers
Welcome to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island

Fashioned by the mighty Atlantic, these open-armed Canadian provinces beckon you for chats, chowder and the chance to see whales breach in the distance.

West Point Lighthouse, Cedar Dunes Provincial Park, Prince Edward Island | Vadim.Petrov / Shutterstock ©


Watery Wonderland
Scanning the horizon from the blustery clifftop, you discern a fine spray shooting up from what appears to be an upturned boat, before it suddenly vanishes. Seconds later, whooshing up, the enormous whale-body arcs and rolls into the air, slapping its broad tail flukes against the icy surface.
Such moments of aquatic wonder aren't uncommon in Atlantic Canada: perhaps as you bike past a lupine-fringed red-sand beach on Prince Edward Island, fly-fish the abundant rivers of New Brunswick, mount a tidal bore wave aboard a dinghy in Nova Scotia or contemplate the passing of icebergs in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Light the Way
Welcome to what's perhaps the lighthouse capital of the world. Reached by winding sealed and unsealed roads, countless windswept craggy coves provide the photogenic backdrops for these picture-perfect beacons, many still in service. More house volunteer-operated museums, where you can climb to the top to marvel at the ocean and wonder about how many lives have been saved over the years by these Maritime sentinels. Not all lighthouses are open or in great shape, but they're universally in wild and wonderful locations, poignant reminders of a lost age.

A Foot-Tapping Good Time
Here's a culture defined by fiddle playing and wearing out the dancing shoes. Maritimers are well-practiced in the art of partying and like nothing more than to share the good times with all who visit. If these come-one-come-all get-togethers don’t make you tap your feet, check your pulse. Outdoor festivals fill the summer calendar as locals make the most of long daylight hours. Folks of Acadian and Gaelic roots each celebrate their heritage through their own distinct music and all are invited: be there by six!

Shellfish Bliss
Gear-up up with your bib, pick and lobster fork and forget about getting butter in your hair: crustaceans (lobster, crab, shrimp) and bivalves (scallops, mussels, oysters) form the mainstay of Atlantic Canada's marine bounty. Confused about how to get the meat out of that lobster leg? This thoughtful bunch often supplies you with instructions on the placemat of how to master the beast with your chosen utensils. Part surgeon, part warrior, part gourmand, the experience of eating these briny critters is almost as good as they taste.


Why I Love Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island
By Benedict Walker, Writer
My arrival in Halifax began as one of those rainy, weary, almost-missing-your-flight kind of mornings, after weeks of long days on the road. Always the penny-pincher, I opted, despite my lethargy, for the airport shuttle over a taxi. As the only passenger I sat up front with the driver, who regaled me with his latest tales as if I were an old friend. His warm demeanor soon thawed my frosty mood – these were people who'd already welcomed me many times and captured my heart. I was home, safe. Visit and you'll see what I mean.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island's Top 10

Cape Breton Highlands
Circuitous roads traverse forested ridgelines and dramatic coastal cliffs where eagles soar, whales spout in the distance and moose amble by the roadside. Tackle this national park as a one- to three-day trip, but make sure you buckle your boots at least once to explore trails that pass by pristine streams, waterfalls and abundant wildflowers to ever more stunning vistas. On the coast, paddle a kayak or take a whale-watching tour to look for minke whales, seabirds and seals. Half the fun is getting there.

Justek16 / Shutterstock ©


Top Experiences
Bay of Fundy
The Bay of Fundy is home to the highest tides in the world. Boats look hopelessly beached on mud flats and piers look ridiculously lofty at low tide. Then, when one billion tonnes of water flow back into the bay, boats bob up to 15m above where they were six hours earlier – it’s surreal. Get right into the tidal action by rafting the tidal bore, or relax with a whale-watching cruise, on which you might see blue whales, minke or the rare fin whale.

Oksana.Perkins / Shutterstock ©


Top Experiences
Charlottetown & Green Gables
Base yourself in postcard-perfect Charlottetown , a gourmand's haven that lends new credence to the farm-to-table movement. From here it takes less than an hour to reach the real-life sites that provided the backdrop to the Anne of Green Gables books, loved by children around the world. You'll find Anne all over Prince Edward Island: in gift shops, as countless pretty redheads dressed as our heroine, among antiques and old-time memorabilia, and in places that understandably inspired names such as the ‘Lake of Shining Waters’ and ‘White Way of Delight.’

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Top Experiences
Halifax
When the fog is in, the tall ships and piers of the Halifax Waterfront take on the air of an eerie pirate-movie set. You can almost imagine the cold, dingy scene of yesteryear as the foghorns blow. Then the fog lifts, the sun comes out and everything turns festive: street buskers sing, laughter peels from beery pub patios and kids giggle with dribbling ice-cream cones as the container ships, frigates and sailboats chug across the sparkling bay. Hop on the Dartmouth ferry to enjoy the view back to Halifax’s boxy downtown.

Paul McKinnon / Shutterstock ©


Top Experiences
The Viking Trail
The Viking Trail , aka Rte 430, connects Newfoundland’s two World Heritage sites on the northern peninsula. Gros Morne National Park, with its fjordlike lakes and geological oddities rests at its base, while the sublime, 1000-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows – Leif Eriksson’s pad – stares out from the peninsula’s tip. The road is an attraction in its own right, holding close to the sea as it heads resolutely north past the ancient burial grounds of Port au Choix and the ferry jump-off to Labrador.

Rolf Hicker / Getty Images ©


Top Experiences
Peggy's Cove
Despite being clogged with tour buses all summer long, Peggy's Cove makes all the postcards and e