Niagara Falls at night: fireworks and illumination |
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Traveler comments: The Laser Lights show at the Falls at night is truly amazing, and rather than spend half a page attempting to describe its splendor, I'll just let you imagine it until you get the opportunity to visit as well! |
Traveler comments:
Truly an awesome site, both in
Summer and in Winter. The falls, on a clear night, with high powered lites
(blues, reds, greens) illuminated the falls are awesome, sorta giving it the
rainbow feeling at night. The falls provide a mist that the light makes look
like a rainbow during the day. |
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Traveller comments: We love to watch the illumination of the falls from the Victoria Park Garden. Get there early and get a spot on the falls side. If you are there on a Friday, you'll get a great fireworks show too...sometimes with live music. There is something magical about it that everyone should see at least once in their life. I have not been able to capture in on my camera very well, but it is a sight to see!
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Traveller comments: The casino is
a great place to drink and gamble if you have cash to spare. Its always busy.
The Down under use to be a really cool bar with lots of dance parties, but now
its more of an after hours rave kind of joint. The bar tenders are really cool.
Pumps is dance club that has a covercharge after 11, but it does have an
outdoor patio. Plus some new bars and clubs that are fun. Though depending on
when you go these bars can be like a ghost town. weekends are best. |
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Traveller comments: Check out the Falls at night when they put on a light show. This is done almost all year round, usually from around 9:00pm until about 12:00 midnight. The huge lights they use are on the Canadian side and change colors about every 15 minutes, so bring you camera and tripod for some beautiful photos. This is really rather romantic so grab your partner and enjoy the falls light show for some free entertainment. Depending on the wind you may get a little wet from the mist. |
Traveller comments: I thought the light display was breathtaking. It's true that the Canandian falls are difficult to take pictures of if it isn't a sunny day. The mist can be very obtrusive however at night the light show isn't hindered nor is the sun needed! Which made it a delight! |
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Traveller comments: There are TONS of bars and clubs in and around Niagara Falls we have been to a few. There are also alot of adult clubs (strip clubs) both menand women if your interested in that sort of thing. |
Traveller comments: The casino is a lot of fun. They have all the usual games, but is somewhat less noisy than the Atlantic City casinos. Two things regarding the casino..you have to play with Canadian money, but they will convert American dollars to Canadian dollars at the casino at very good rates. Also, unlike American casinos, where you have to be 21 to gamble, in Canada you only need to be 19. (They do check ID at the door for proof of age if they have any doubt.) |
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People standing at the Falls often think or ask, "Have boats gone over the Falls?" Innumerable small boats, some with people in them, have taken the plunge, and no less than five large boats have gone crashing to the rocks below, all but one over the Horseshoe Falls. For some reason or other there was a mania for sending old boats over the Falls between the years 1827 and 1829. During September, 1827, the sailing boat "Michigan," a ship of considerable burden from Lake Erie, was sent over while an estimated thirty thousand people watched. It was a sadistic display, the craft carrying live freight. On board there were two bears, racoons, a dog, geese, and other small animals. One bear, wiser than the other, swung overboard and made for shore. The boat passed over at the center of the Horseshoe, where she was promptly pounded to splinters. During August, 1828, another old-timer, a sloop, broke moorings at Chippawa, two miles upstream on the Canadian side, and jammed in the rapids above the American Falls. She went over piecemeal. Two more went over during 1829 – the "Detroit" and the "Superior," the former with bears, deer, a buffalo, and many smaller animals, sad commentary that it was for the sportsmanship of those who watched and those who arranged the event. The "Superior" gave a very disappointing display, however, for she grounded in the rapids above the Horseshoe and lay there for a week, finally going over in the middle of the night. |
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