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• Explore historic settlements aplenty on the Avalon Peninsula. Trinity records European explorers' first encounter with the ancient Beothuk people. Placentia was Newfoundland's French capital in the 17th and 18th centuries. Explore 500 years of Maritime Archaic People history at Port au Choix.
• Take your wallet for a walk along bustling Water Street in St John's, one of North America's oldest shopping streets. Other sites include: the Cathedral of St John the Baptist; Signal Hill, reception point for Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission in 1901, which offers good views; and the Newfoundland Museum.
• Discover Newfoundland and Labrador's huge range of ethnicity. Start at Boyd's Cove on the Kittiwake Coast, which recounts the history of the mysterious Beothuk people. Labrador has two Innu communities, at Sheshatshiu and Natuashish. The Métis Aboriginal community subsists in Labrador, mainly around Lake Melville.
• Hunt down the Point Amour lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada. Built from 1854 to 1857, it is still a working lighthouse, although now automated. The living quarters house exhibits portraying the maritime history of the Labrador Straits.
• Watch enormous herds of Caribou roaming along the Trans-Labrador Highway. Caribou and black bears can be found in the Avalon Wilderness Reserve.
• Enjoy the scenic rugged coastline of Terra Nova National Park, adjoining Bonavista Bay. The Burin Peninsula has beautiful coastal villages. Icebergs float off Cape Freels, and a coastal road runs along the Long Range Mountains affording good fjord, mountain and beach views.
• See the wild, scenic Great Northern Peninsula from Gros Morne National Park, a blend of rugged mountains, deep fjords and bays. At the peninsula's northernmost tip, UNESCO World Heritage Site L'Anse aux Meadows is the New World's earliest European settlement and features restored Viking sod houses.
• Roam Labrador, a largely undisturbed wilderness. The Labrador Straits Museum has displays on the Maritime Archaic Indians who built a burial mound nearby at L'Anse-Amour around 5500BC. A coastal highway extends along the eastern coastline, linking most Atlantic fishing villages.
• If you're lucky, catch a glimpse of the northern lights (Aurora Borealis), which sometimes charge up the skies here, particularly in Labrador. This luminous meteoric phenomenon produces spectacular astral light shows.
• Bring your binoculars. Newfoundland is rich in marine life and seabird colonies, attracting millions of puffins, gannets, kittiwakes, murres and petrels. Go seabird and whale watching (for humpback, fin and minke whales) by boat or kayak in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• Take your wallet for a walk along bustling Water Street in St John's, one of North America's oldest shopping streets. Other sites include: the Cathedral of St John the Baptist; Signal Hill, reception point for Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission in 1901, which offers good views; and the Newfoundland Museum.
• Discover Newfoundland and Labrador's huge range of ethnicity. Start at Boyd's Cove on the Kittiwake Coast, which recounts the history of the mysterious Beothuk people. Labrador has two Innu communities, at Sheshatshiu and Natuashish. The Métis Aboriginal community subsists in Labrador, mainly around Lake Melville.
• Hunt down the Point Amour lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada. Built from 1854 to 1857, it is still a working lighthouse, although now automated. The living quarters house exhibits portraying the maritime history of the Labrador Straits.
• Watch enormous herds of Caribou roaming along the Trans-Labrador Highway. Caribou and black bears can be found in the Avalon Wilderness Reserve.
• Enjoy the scenic rugged coastline of Terra Nova National Park, adjoining Bonavista Bay. The Burin Peninsula has beautiful coastal villages. Icebergs float off Cape Freels, and a coastal road runs along the Long Range Mountains affording good fjord, mountain and beach views.
• See the wild, scenic Great Northern Peninsula from Gros Morne National Park, a blend of rugged mountains, deep fjords and bays. At the peninsula's northernmost tip, UNESCO World Heritage Site L'Anse aux Meadows is the New World's earliest European settlement and features restored Viking sod houses.
• Roam Labrador, a largely undisturbed wilderness. The Labrador Straits Museum has displays on the Maritime Archaic Indians who built a burial mound nearby at L'Anse-Amour around 5500BC. A coastal highway extends along the eastern coastline, linking most Atlantic fishing villages.
• If you're lucky, catch a glimpse of the northern lights (Aurora Borealis), which sometimes charge up the skies here, particularly in Labrador. This luminous meteoric phenomenon produces spectacular astral light shows.
• Bring your binoculars. Newfoundland is rich in marine life and seabird colonies, attracting millions of puffins, gannets, kittiwakes, murres and petrels. Go seabird and whale watching (for humpback, fin and minke whales) by boat or kayak in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.