The World's honeymoon Capital - Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is known as the Honeymoon Capital of the World.

How many of us know it? 9 out of every 10 people wish to see the Niagara Falls atleast once in Life time. I'm also one among the 9 people who wanted to get there.

Being in NY for 3 weeks now, we planned to get to Niagara falls, its like 6 hrs drive from NYC. Kusuma (My Fiancee) and I along with my old friends whom I met here decided to make it to this wonderful place on earth last weekend.

We decided to take the gotobus as the weather was getting cold. We booked seats well in advance and lucky to get the tickets confirmed as this is supposed to be the peak season before close of Niagara Falls by end of Oct.

Kusuma made it to NY in the early morning flight. We all meet up at a pre-decided place and made our way to Canal Street where we were supposed to board the bus. As usual, I make some last min shopping of some snacks as they do not provide any meals in the bus.

Checked into the bus with the e-ticket and the most awaited our was just about to start. There comes the guide whom name we christened as Malcolm (Chinese that he was, we wanted to name him similar to what he "welcome" us; just replace "we" with "ma").

Out of NYC into Jersey City and towards Pennsylvania. The trip was via the Corning Glass Museum. The Corning Glass Museum was our 1st stop. It was just about lunch time too. Imagine not having breakfast and having to survive on some potato chips and just juice till 2 PM. And also having to only be eating vegetarian Food in the US.

Had our food and went around the Museum clicking some pics. The Museum had some awesome collection of Glass Art. It was sheer surprise and astonishment to see the shapes, color and texture that glass can take.

The Shopping section in the Museum was again just too good. Eventhough I was crazy about a couple-a-things and wanted to buy them to take them back home, it was logical not to buy as the checked in baggage are manhandled at the Airport.

Till now the bus was half filled, at the Corning Glass Museum, many more people joined the tour (rather they were already on a 2nd day of the tour and they joined us).

It was a looooooooong way before we got to the Niagara County eventually by 6 PM on Sat. We were waiting by now to put some Indian food into our mouth. Lucky to spot a Punjabi Dhaba near the Niagara water park, we grabbed the opportunity with both the hands and all of us took the buffet there. Had our dinner so early by 7 PM and loafed around the Niagara park enjoying the night view. It was very very cold. 9 deg Celsius. I bought a cap to cover my head till ears to keep myself warm.

Got to the Hotel and then decided to go to the Waterfall to witness the night view. Toooo good. Awesome!! Niagara Falls just the one border of Canada and US. Standing on the US side, the Canada Niagara City looks cool with a lot of Casinos and some skyscrapers.

Got to the hotel at night and got to our rooms to catch some sleep as we had to get up at 6:30 the next morning to get to the Maid of the Mist.

Early morning, its so cold. Grabbed a cup-a coffee each and boarded the bus. We were driven to the Park to see the American Falls and Horshu Falls. Beautiful, amazing, awesome.. The roar of the falls, just standing next to the mighty falls, seeing the water with an unbelievable current falling off the cliff, roaring with a mighty fall of more than 100 feet. Niagara falls was the first to have the Hydraulic Power Station. The current the river catches just before the fall is enormous.
Quickly got back to the bus to get to the Maid of the Mist. This is among the common waterfall region actually separating the 2 countries US and Canada. The mighty waterfall, from more than 100 feet, oozes out so much of mist around the falls that most part of the falls is very much invisible. Maid of the mist is a Ship Cruise, which takes us close to the falls, below the falls at a safe distance and gives us the enthralling life time experience and memory of the waterfall from such a height.

After the maid of the mist, its back all the way to NYC. A loooong de-tour of more than 7 hrs. All exhausted coz of the journey and more exhausted crossing the Holland Tunnel in a huuuge traffic jam. Back to NY and Kusuma flied back to LA. End of a memorable and life time tour to the Niagara Falls, THE HONEYMOOM CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.