Go to www.halifaxinfo.com for city information and visitor guide.

• Harbour Front Walk - buskers, sight-seeing cruises/whale watching cruises/city tours, crafts, restaurants, Cows Ice Cream
• Spring Garden Road : shopping, restaurants, pubs, cinema (in Park Lane Mall)
• Farmers' Market (Lower Water St between Bishop and Salter St) Saturday Mornings
• Public Gardens - Formal Victorian Gardens (Spring Garden and South Park St)
• Theatre - Neptune Theatre (Argyle St at Sackville St)
• Running - extensive trails and ocean views in Point Pleasant Park (drastically thinned by Hurricane Juan in 2003) Go south on South Park St. (which becomes Young Ave).
• Museums etc
  • The Citadel : National Historic Site - 19th C star-shaped fort
  • Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Ð exhibits on Halifax Explosion, Titanic
  • Others: Pier 21 (Ellis Island of Canada), NS Art Gallery

For before or after the conference. Times are for one-way trip. Go to www.novascotia.com for provincial tourism information including free travel guide.

• Lunenburg/Mahone Bay
  • picturesque/historic towns with art/craft shops
  • 1-1.5 hrs down the "South Shore" on Highway 103
  • Lunenburg-Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic/home of BlueNose II schooner
• Peggy's Cove
  • iconic lighthouse and granite shore
  • 45 minutes on Highway 333
  • return by continuing on Highway 333 along St Margarets Bay and back on the 103
• Annapolis Valley
  • pastoral valley with picturesque/historic towns
  • Wolfville/Grand Pre 1.5 hrs on Highway 101
  • Grand Pre - National Historic Site commemorating expulsion of Acadians
  • Annapolis Royal 2.5 hours on Highway 101
  • Port Royal - National Historic Site - First European Settlement north of Florida - Recreated early 17th C fort
• Eastern Shore Beaches
  • Rainbow Haven - 30 minutes on Highway 207 and Bissett Rd - Sand and cobble beach
  • Lawrencetown - 40 minutes on Highway 207 - Sand and cobble beach - good surf (bad riptides)
  • Martinique 1 hr on Highways 107 and 7, turn at Musquodoboit Harbour 5km of white sand beach

If you have a few days, you might want to consider Cape Breton: rugged and scenic Cabot Trail; Fortress of Louisburg National Historic Site (recreated 18th C town & fort)