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Toronto streetcar among 'journeys of a lifetime'
1 day ago
WASHINGTON - It's a journey that thousands of Toronto commuters do each day, without much pleasure.
But the 501 Queen streetcar has now acquired lofty status, having been included in the new coffee-table book "Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips" (National Geographic).
The 501, boasting one of the longest streetcar routes in North America, is listed among the top 10 trolley rides on the planet. Others include Berlin's Tram 68, Lisbon's 28 Tram, Seattle's George Benson Waterfront Streetcar, New Orleans' St. Charles Streetcar Tour, Hong Kong's trams and San Francisco's Streetcar F.
National Geographic lists trolleys as "the best way to see a city from an insider's perspective."
Also highlighted in the book is Montreal's underground city, with shopping malls, banks and offices - "the largest man-made underground network in the world." (WTF? I thought Toronto's PATH was the largest in the world?)
It's among the top 10 underground walks, along with the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam, Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland, the sewers of Paris and the catacombs in Rome, among others.
Cruising from Seattle or Vancouver to Alaska - a trip that features the sight of bald eagles, fiords and waterfalls cascading down mountainsides - is listed among the world's top trips by water.
Other leading water trips include Canada's Trent-Severn Waterway, airboating in the Florida Everglades and the Orinoco River Cruise in Venezuela.
Top road trips include the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper, Alta.; crossing the Andes from Bolivia to Chile; the route from Delhi to Agra, India; and the Takenouchi Highway in Japan.
Louroz
Toronto streetcar among 'journeys of a lifetime'
1 day ago
WASHINGTON - It's a journey that thousands of Toronto commuters do each day, without much pleasure.
But the 501 Queen streetcar has now acquired lofty status, having been included in the new coffee-table book "Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips" (National Geographic).
The 501, boasting one of the longest streetcar routes in North America, is listed among the top 10 trolley rides on the planet. Others include Berlin's Tram 68, Lisbon's 28 Tram, Seattle's George Benson Waterfront Streetcar, New Orleans' St. Charles Streetcar Tour, Hong Kong's trams and San Francisco's Streetcar F.
National Geographic lists trolleys as "the best way to see a city from an insider's perspective."
Also highlighted in the book is Montreal's underground city, with shopping malls, banks and offices - "the largest man-made underground network in the world." (WTF? I thought Toronto's PATH was the largest in the world?)
It's among the top 10 underground walks, along with the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam, Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland, the sewers of Paris and the catacombs in Rome, among others.
Cruising from Seattle or Vancouver to Alaska - a trip that features the sight of bald eagles, fiords and waterfalls cascading down mountainsides - is listed among the world's top trips by water.
Other leading water trips include Canada's Trent-Severn Waterway, airboating in the Florida Everglades and the Orinoco River Cruise in Venezuela.
Top road trips include the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper, Alta.; crossing the Andes from Bolivia to Chile; the route from Delhi to Agra, India; and the Takenouchi Highway in Japan.
Louroz