MANITOBA "LAND OF 100,000 LAKES"

BY CLAY LARROY 

Regardless of whether you are traveling to a nearby location for the weekend or taking a week-long destination vacation, you are always going to benefit from some tips and ideas on how to make the whole process, more fun and less stressful. Take time each day to alleviate stress while traveling or vacationing and you will thank yourself for it when you get back home. With all the chaos, jet-lag, partying and other excitement of travel comes a whole lot of stress on your mind and body. By the time most vacations are over, another one is needed to recover so taking a few minutes each day to rejuvenate will make it easier for you to resume your normal life when it's all over. When you want to plan a vacation contact me!

MANITOBA

Visitors to Manitoba, one of Canada's best kept secrets, will find huge skies, vast expanses of wilderness, thousands of lakes, icebergs, prairies, deserts and plenty of wildlife. In fact, everything about Manitoba screams majesty, beauty and nature at her best. Best of all, hardly anyone else will be there to spoil the views.

In Manitoba, utter peace and quiet is apparent as you amble around a landscape that is carved up into sprawling rivers, desert dunes and forest. You can travel from sub-Arctic coastline to fields that bloom with a startling patchwork of red, yellow and purple. When the sun sets into the flat, open land, the sky turns similar, sumptuous colors.

This abundance of wilderness is a haven for fauna. Manitoba is home to hundreds of species of birds that flock to the province's 100,000 lakes and marshes. Additionally, you can expect to see wolves, bears, elk, moose, beavers, polar bears or whales, depending on your location in the province.

Manitoba is a huge province with comparably few residents but the people that do live there are renowned for their friendly, hospitable natures and diversity. Winnipeg is the center of the cultural festival Folklarama, a celebration of Canada's ethnic communities. Manitobans are a vibrant international mix, and include Icelandic, Japanese and Italian.

Best Time To Visit

A winter visit to Manitoba will give you a true Arctic winter experience complete with doses of icy winds, driving snow storms and cool, calm starry nights (not to mention periodic displays of the northern lights). July or August is the ideal time to visit for warm, sunny days and pleasantly cool nights. 

The scenery and tourist opportunities are at their best in the summer months. This is also the best time for walking, canoeing, fishing or even hunting in the vast tracts of Manitoba wilderness. Festival season is in full swing through the summer with almost endless quirky and more mainstream events, from the Boissevain Turtle Derby, the Morris Stampede and the Morden Corn and Apple festival to the Winnipeg Fringe and Folk festivals.

REFERENCE SITES:  http://www.travelresearchonline.com

Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny 

I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, 

deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun. - 

 Douglas Coupland

Live life and travel often, the more you travel, the more memories you create!