Newfoundland - Country Within a Country
How About Something Truly Different
St. John’s – Clarenville – Grand Falls – Cornerbrook 
– Gros Morne – L’Anse Aux Meadows

Day 1 Depart by air for St. John’s Newfoundland. We are met at the airport by our friendly and humorous guide and get our first taste of a very unique language!! Unpack at our hotel for the next two nights. Step out this evening and our guide will give us our first taste of a unique Canadian culture.

Day 2 Today we tour North America’s oldest city, St. Johns. Here is where the sun rises first on the New World. We tour the national historic sight of Signal Hill. It is on this spot that Guglielmo Marconi received the first Trans-Atlantic Radio signal.  See Cabot Tower. Watch the waves of Europe crash on the shore of Cape Spear, North America’s most Easterly point. We are treated to a two-hour harbor cruise and see Puffins (June through August), Kittiwakes and Murres.

Day 3 Our deluxe motor coach delivers us along the craggy coastline of Conception Bay through Holyrood Grace and Baccalieu Trail. Step into the Fisherman’s museum in Hibb’s cove and overnight in Clarenville.

Day 4 The restored village of Trinity will whisk you back in time with its quaint buildings and architecture. We drive into Terra Nova National Park to view the vistas of Newman Sound. We overnight in Gander.

Day 5 Enjoy breakfast and depart for the Exploits River. Watch for Atlantic Bluejays on our walking tour and visit the interesting Salmonoid Interpretation Center. Overnight in the Grand Falls area.

Day 6 Triton welcomes us today. We tour a Lobster storage facility and fish plant. We have a little time for souvenir shopping. This afternoon we depart for Cornerbrook on the East coast of Newfoundland. See Captain Cook’s Monument here and learn of this great explorer. Captain Cook died on another island???

Day 7 We’ll see the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park. Pass bountiful boreal forests, with abundant and varied plantlife, to Bonne Bay on a natural Fjord. Amazingly, the mountains that surround us were once sitting on the ocean floor and were thrust up to the surface by Glaciers. See Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse and visit the parks interpretive center before returning to our hotel in Cornerbrook.

Day 8 We drive the north peninsula highway and breathe in the stunning scenery of Fjords, tiny villages clinging to the shoreline and sharp crusty mountains. Arrive in Porte Aux Choix National Historic Park. Archeological exhibits here focus on the maritime natives and Dorset Eskimo settlements that dotted the landscape over 4,000 years ago. We’ll stand under a Tuckamore tree and see the sight that relates to the French Shore Fishing Treaty. If you like icebergs you will ABSOLUTELY lOVE  Iceberg Alley. Watch, in amazement, as these luminous blue giants of ice quietly and serenely sail by us. They follow the Labrador current far to the south. Stop into Sir Wilfred Grenfell’s museum home and journey on to L’Anse Aux Meadows. This Viking settlement rewrote the history books. Leif Erikson’s son, Eric the Red, established a colony here more than 4 centuries before Columbus was born! See the Viking sod homes and we step into the visitor center adjacent. Overnight nearby.

Day 9-10 Depart to the south for our last overnight and departure from Deer Lake.

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