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Thursday, December 25
23 december - ottawa, capital of canada 11:12 PMDespite the incessant horror stories surrounding the Greyhound bus, we finally embarked on our first Greyhound-Canada journey from Quebec to Ottawa. It wasn't all that bad though, or perhaps I've just been accustomed to travelling on coaches since I was young (and anyway, nothing can be as bad as standing 4 hours when I took the Greyhound from New York to Jersey 2 years ago, haha). But yep, my experience'd allowed me to share lots of lil' tips with my friends, about how to take care of personal belongings when asleep on the bus, as well as the weird mechanisms of Greyhound - apparently tickets for the bus have no timings stamped on them, so everyone has to go early and get into line to ensure you get a seat and depart at your desired timing, haha.
So it all worked out well for us, it's already been more than a week since we started on our travel itinerary. I guess travelling in a group always entails some form of learning - be it dependence, independence, or looking out for your friends. Cultural sensitivity perhaps comes into play too, since Iryna (Shuwen and Huilin's friend from Ukraine/Czech) is here with us as well. Yep.. it's gonna be a tiring 19 days altogether but I'm sure we'll enjoy one another's company and keep each other sane, heh.
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Few people actually know that Ottawa's the capital of Canada; many people mistake it for Toronto or Vancouver. But yep, we've heard it's not a very exciting place, since it is renowned only as home to a wealth of national museums, official residences, government buildings, memorials and heritage structures. Still, Ottawa was an interesting and beautiful place to see even though we spent only 1 night there, and personally I'm just so thankful and amazed that every part of Canada is so different and displays a unique culture of its own, so much so that every place we visit is a new discovery for us. Winter conditions here are also slightly different from Quebec's; snow and ice (and snowstorms) are super dominant in the province of Ontario, and Ottawa itself receives about 235cm of snowfall on average every year! So yep, coupled with the humid continental climate the city can get very very cold, bleah.
Ottawa Backpackers' Inn
ByWard Market with its exciting food variety (see below) and souvenir shops!
Left: cafeteria in Byward Market / Right: pasar-malam in the cold, haha
National Gallery of Canada (Musee des beaux-arts du Canada), with its iconic gigantic spider (the Maman). I think I look like a teddy bear there! Haha.
Ottawa's castle-like Parliament House and City Hall.. simply beautiful with the snowfall. :)
The frozen canal in Ottawa, known to be the 2nd longest skating rink in the world (once again, Winnipeg's 1st! Haha.)
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