Travel photo of the day: Colorful Niagara Falls

From the Travel section of the NBC Today Show web site (including photo): Mary Umbricht of Seekonk, Mass., captured this beautiful photo of Niagara Falls. Umbricht took the picture on Saturday while spending a long weekend in Canada. There was “a lot of color,” she told TODAY.com, and visibility was great due to no leaves…

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10 most beautiful waterfalls

From Today Travel: Few things in nature are as mesmerizing as a waterfall — the thunderous roar as water spills over cliffs, the light glistening off the spray, the sheer force of it all. We found the 10 most enticing cascades on the planet. Some are obvious choices (who could resist the honeymooners’ classic Niagara?),…

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Fewer Americans coming to Canada

From the Niagara Falls Review: Fewer Americans came to visit Canada in October than in September, while the number of Canadians travelling to the United States was up slightly the same month, according to new data from Statistics Canada. Travel by U. S. residents to Canada fell 2.6% to 1.6 million in October, compared to…

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Millions fewer visitors coming to Niagara in 2009

From Niagara This Week: The double whammy of the brutal recession and new identification rules at the border have devastated cross-border travel that’s a backbone of Niagara’s crucial tourism sector, gutting thousands of jobs here, figures from the Binational Tourism Alliance show. In an attempt to try to reverse the disturbing trend, the alliance is…

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Passport required

From the Niagara Falls Review: Canadians travelling to the U. S. by car need to add one more thing to their checklist starting today as new rules requiring passports kick in. Showing up at a crossing with your birth certificate or citizenship card and photo ID won’t guarantee entry anymore. The United States now requires…

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