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We got up and out early today as we had a few things planned that we thought would take up most of the day. We caught the metro to Viau to see the Montreal Tower. It was was built as part of the olympic site/stadium and sports centre and is the highest inclined tower in the world. It has a 45 degree angle which is a lot when compared to the Tower of Pisa which only has a 5 degree incline. Obviously the height in general was nothing compared to say the CN Tower but it was an interesting building and the views were nice.
After this we headed across to the insectarium which I loved! Alive insects freak me out a little but the preserved ones I'm ok looking at! I just love to see all the different types. There were so many that I'd never even seen or heard of before, or could have even imagined; some of the colours and shapes were out of this world! It was like they weren't real. There were thousands of types inside. The insectarium is considered the largest in North America!
Obviously my favourire part was all the different types of butterflies! :) It was all very fascinating.
Next we went to the Botanical Gardens which is actually considered one of the world's best gardens. Well this definitely isn't the case in November!! Everything was either dead or under white sheeting. It probably is absolutely beautiful in the summer but why they still open it to the public in the winter I don't know (I was expecting a lot of the plants and flowers to be inside) so that was a complete waste of time!
It was absolutely freezing today aswell so we didn't really want to be out for too long. It was definitely the coldest day so far since we've been away; definitely minus something! We headed back to the hostel after this and treated ourselves to dinner again from downstairs :)
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