Within Walking Distance
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
Suggested Day Trips
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)
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