We woke up around 7:25 am next day got freshened and had our breakfast around 8:45 am. Around 9:15 am we checked out from the hotel and started to Montreal. It was around 2 and half hour drive. We soon took the highway and most part of the drive was on the highway. The roads and rules were much similar to that of US except for in Canada they follow metric system, so the speed signs are in kilometers. We played our favorite songs in the car with bluetooth and had pleasant drive. Around 10:50 am we filled the gas. Around 12:05 pm reached Days Inn hotel. we already decided on what and how to cover the places around Montreal. The hotel check in time is 4 pm ,so we kept our luggage in cloak room and left around 12:10 pm to Not-re-Dame Basilica(Church).
We passed through the harbor of Montreal for the church. It was a very old church and also the name Basilica was given to it because of its huge size. There was a huge line in front of the church waiting to enter. Montreal is bit more cold than Quebec and people are standing in the cold weather and there were few who are performing some shows in the open air in front of the church. Finally after 20 mins waiting we were able to get into the church. The church hall was so big and spectacular. It was very colorful in the dim light. It was a huge prayer hall and then there were other prayer and Baptist rooms. The architecture was great. Around 2:28 pm We went to Park Olympic. It is the park built for 1976 Olympics.
The park was very good. IT had a huge observatory tower, Bio-dome, planetarium, Huge stadiums and huge indoor stadium for various sports. we had our lunch in one of the cafeteria in the Olympic around 3:20 pm. We went to planetarium and the show started around 3:30 pm. It was a like a circular screen and we were laying down on bean bags and watching the huge screen.The show is all about galaxies, milky way and how planet Earth formed. It was interesting but laying down for 45 mins and watching is bit painful. Around 4:40 pm we came out of the show and then headed for botanical gardens which is adjacent to the Olympic park. There are so many varieties of trees and plants. We saw Apple and plum trees with small fruit buds for the first time.
We saw some medicinal plants, poison plants. We saw blueberry, strawberry, raspberry plants. Around 6:15 pm we went to Greenhouse to see various type of plants grown in various regions. There were so many insectivorous plants. There were so many pumpkins decorated in various shapes. They were very delightful to watch. We had dinner in one of the cafeteria and went to Light show which is arranged in the Garden around 7:00 pm. There were lights put on the ground and on the trees which illuminated the trees and the whole appeared as though we were walking midst of divine trees.
There were birds and animals made with lights and they were beautiful to watch glowing in the dark.
Being Halloween time there were many pumpkin decorated lights hanging and all around the place. Then there was light show put up to showcase the Old Chinese tradition with lights showing fisherman, dragon, Chinese sculptures. It was beautiful. We then saw the Japanese lights showing their tradition. It was great experience to watch such spectacular lights in the dark surrounded by huge trees. Then there was a music and light show on of the huge tree bark presenting large explosion started before the start of Universe. Around 8 pm we then went to Insectarium. We saw the most poisonous insects in the world(spiders, crabs, scorpions, bugs). We were thrilled to know how fatal these insects can be. We also saw many variety of insects and astonished to know that such kind of living things do exist. We saw various stick insets. At first we couldn't find where the insects are in the glass cage. The stems of the plant and insects looks alike. We could hardly believe that such kind of insects also do exist. We went to car parking which was almost 15 mins far and then reached hotel around 9:15 pm and checked in. We then went to Maison Indian Curry restaurant and had our dinner around 10 pm. Food was ok not so great. We then went to hotel and called it off for the day. All is Well.
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