Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, is located in the central part of the province, extending along the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. Various periods of economic boom, including the early fur trade, the Trans-Canada Railway, the Alaska Highway and oil and gas exploration, have had a great impact on Edmonton.
With a prosperous economy, Edmonton has invested heavily in culture and the arts, building several excellent theatres and museums.
Of course, the city is best known for the West Edmonton Mall, which is one of the largest leisure and shopping centers in the world, and even in the cold winter when the average temperature is -15 ° C, visitors are still interested and stay.
The Royal Alberta Museum
What's Edmonton playing? Royal Museum
I stayed in Edmonton for three or four days and only came to the museum to hide from the rain in the afternoon, because I also visited the museum in Ottawa for a whole day and did not finish shopping. Fortunately, I think Edmonton may be a lot smaller (it is small, but if I carefully watch the introduction video, I have to visit the real afternoon
Address :9810 103a Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0G2
Museum Area:
Latest on the new Angkor Wat exhibition:
Many of its temple figures are too vivid to look at the introduction says that until now the local people will worship and worship feel too sacred to dare to take pictures
Natural World History:
The First nation of Native peoples how to survive, hunt, land contracts with white people, and so on. In Grade12First nation, I saw that their main food source, Buffalo, was much bigger than I thought it was (twice the size of a truck).
All kinds of prehistoric Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, that kind of thing, and a giant sloth-like creature (fossil looks very dull and aggressive - 10,000 no wonder it died out early
There are all kinds of rocks (which are also involved in the formation of all kinds of volcanic rocks and so on who studied EOSC geology)
And developments in Canadian history and technology (industrial revolution, guns, textiles, medicine, airplanes, etc.)
There's also a clownfish in a tank and its friends who are longer than the abstract and control me for 10 minutes
Greenhouse entomology:
As soon as I went in, I felt the temperature rise, and it was full of spiders and insects (saved my life). I was scared. I was dragged into it by my friend. Really, the more scared I was, the more I could see the position of insects in the glass box
It's recommended if you like history, nature and geology or get out of the rain like we did hhh and get a little cultural immersion without poking
It was a good deal for the three of us for over 70 dollars (21 dollars per person)
The exhibition hall has a pig nose snake nose is very cute to touch it (who knows not afraid of snakes but afraid of all kinds of insects are afraid of death
Edmonton Castle Park
Fort Edmonton Park is the best childhood memory of every child growing up in Edmonton. Traveling through the park by train or tram is like stepping back in time to Edmonton in the 18th and 19th centuries. The old buildings, objects, and costumes of the staff add to the sense of history. Kids love retro playgrounds and ice cream parlors. The Aboriginal experience is a refreshing experience. It's a good place to stay all day.
Mtat greenhouse
Friends who love plants, or who want to find the perfect place to walk their children, please don't miss here! Tourist friends don't miss here! Tickets cost about $12 for adults and about $55 for annual passes. Parking is free upon registration. It's also not far from downtown's riverfront parks, so you can punch multiple places at once.
From the outside far can see the greenhouse is very distinctive four glass pyramid shape, we went to have a pyramid in the decoration, so see the three are desert area, temperate area and tropical area. The difference in temperature and humidity in each zone is noticeable.
It doesn't matter if you don't know about plants, there are free classes at certain times each day, and guides to explain the types of plants and where they come from. A lot of adults brought a piece of paper from the plant class to the botanical garden "treasure hunt" answer, it is very interesting.
If you like to raise plants, then this is your paradise, although there are not so many rare varieties, but all of them are huge! Grow big and nice, tropical anemas, vine green velvet, begonias, desert keels, aloe vera, and temperate mandala trees full of flowers! All very spectacular!
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