Eating

Sydney has more than 10,000 restaurants. If Australian cuisine is not very refined, the vast diversity of the city allows unlimited variations culinary practically (but with a clear dominant Asian).

Commodities of the country, especially meat, fruit and vegetables, are of excellent quality for a relatively low price.

In the recent years people have seen the emergence of a unique Australian cuisine using local ingredients typically like the ostrich and kangaroo.

Smaller budget
Pubs generally have a restricted card and offer classic brasserie dishes (steak fries, spaghetti bolognaise) for about $ 5.

Many backpackers hotels are equipped with a kitchen, which makes it possible to go shopping at the supermarket.

Average price
Here you have choices. Many restaurants offer a lunch consisting of a flat entrance and a principal for $ 12.

Drink Exit
Jackson’s Pub in Sydney, the East district rocks, Sydney is crowded pub mouais it air cool it!

Belgian nostalgic for their beverages homemade ===> THE BELGIAN BEER CAFE;);) there are two in the city

Lodging

Remember that it is very expensive to live in Sydney CBD (downtown) and that Australians prefer the North Sydney (North) and South Asia while still in the centre …

Go
There are a lot of fun to travel from Sydney.

• Bells Line of Road was Lithgow
• The Blue Mountains (Blue Mountains), or are Jenolan Caves
• Newnes Glen in Wollemi National Park
• Kanangra Boyd National Park
• Hunter Valley Wineries
• Wollongong is a charming little town south of Sidney, accessible by car or by train.
• There are also in the NSW Western Plains Zoo (Zoo of Platanes de l’Ouest).
• Koala Park
  • Opened in 1930, the Koala Park was the first park where koalas were collected, treated and studied. Since then, other animals were introduced as wombats, kangaroos and birds. Four times during the day, it is possible cuddle koalas and attend their meals (feeding time: 10:20 am / 11:45 am / 2:00 pm / 3:00 pm). Also to be noted is that kangaroos will walk most of the time at liberty.

Sydney a sprawling city with many neighborhoods, but the very centre of Sydney is not so great and that it runs very well walk to the followers. For others, a Network train, bus and ferry (from Circular Quay, next to the Opera) perfectly serves the city. The fare varies depending on the distance travelled. Various daily and weekly subscriptions are available and are quickly recouped.Take a tour of the historic district of Rocks are located where the oldest houses in the city, go walk on the streets of Paddington and Newton on Saturday mornings these places have a small march that will delight you! Prefer the beaches of Bronte (pronounced Bronti) or Coogee (pronounced Cougii) or even better, and Watsons Bay (accessible by ferry) and less than overcrowded and Watson Bay has the huge advantage of having virtually qucune wave is the result that you can bring children and swim and not just swim as on others. You should know that in Australia, the waves were huge and had less to go with a surfboard or body board you do not take advantage of the Ocean. Unless they go on tiny beaches known only Australian or Aussies! Watsons Bay is one, since turned to the interior of the bay has the same mouth of the ocean.

Downtown/CBD
Downtown Sydney is turned towards the bay. You will find everything a big city shelters has the respect of Paris or London, many banks, nightclubs, hostels (Backpacker) cyber cafe, supermarket.

The city centre is around Town Hall (Town Hall, Martin Place (all pedestrian) and the Queen Victoria Building (QVB or large mall) and revolves grace a large arteries: George street, Pitt street. All the streets are perpendicular, it is therefore easy to identify. George street is a street of the most lively on Friday evening and Saturday evening, she receives all pubs, bars and other boxes nights, many youth hostels and also on its ratings, an innumerable amount of restaurants. Therefore the city or leave when we do not know much Sydney.

Great Spots to Go 

• Darling Harbour or amusement park established at the water’s edge with many bars, restaurants and entertainment at night. With just a symbol Chinese Garden (paid) sumptuous, or Sydney Aquarium you can see sharks and other fish that can be found in its latitudes, and the Maritim Museum (Musee de la Marine).
• Kings Cross is a district with many hostels, and other cyber cafe bars, nightclubs … It has a bad reputation because there are prostitutes but is becoming increasingly popular among young for the exits Friday night.
• Newton, there is a homosexual community, as to Oxford street and Surry Hill but it is a quiet, green or it is good to live there.
• Eatern Suburbs
• Northern Beaches
• Parramatta
• Paddington
  • In 1840 were built the Victoria Barracks (Victorian barracks) to house 800 soldiers. At the time, the surrounding land were purchased and many Victorian homes built quickly. These beautiful homes we can still see today are distinguished by their terraces in the facade, they are also called “terraces houses”. The tourist buses (Sydney Explorer and Bondi Explorer) as well as the regular lines can quickly reach the place.
• Sydney Opera House
• Sydney Harbour Bridge
  • Bridge Climb (dramatic, $ 155 (off-peak) to $ 225 (overnight))
    Mount the Pylon ($ 8.50)
    Cross it: take a train station in Milson’s Point and climb the stairs to the right (it’s free, and the views are excellent) 
• Swim to the beaches of Bondi, Manly, Cronulla or Wattamulla
• Visit Sydney Olympic Park, the venue of the Olympic Games of 2000 ( “the best Games ever!)
• Fox Studios (film studio)
• Sydney Aquarium
  • The aquarium is located on the east shore of Cockle Bay at Darling Harbour is remarkable in every way! Apart from the fact that it presents the greatest variety of aquatic species of the Australian continent, three special features make it a unique attraction: the reconstitution of the environment of the Great Barrier Reef, ‘Touch area’, which offers the possibility of touch some residents of the aquarium, underwater tunnels to gather on the sea floor surrounded by sharks.
• Australian National Maritime Museum (National Maritime Museum)
• Art Gallery of NSW
• Take a walk was “The Rocks” (Stones), arts centre in Sydney.
• Take a boat from Circular Quay across the bay Taronga Park Zoo (Taronga Zoo).

Sydney is the largest city in Australia, with a population exceeding 4 million. It is also the oldest European facility in the country, since the city was founded as a penal colony in 1788.Sydney is the capital of New South Wales (NSW). It is famous for its situation around a beautiful bay, Port Jackson, where the crown jewels are the Opera House, the silhouette of which a shell, and the Harbour Bridge, the bridge connecting the northern and southern districts of the city and nicknamed The Old Coathanger (the old hanger).

Sydney hosted the Olympics in 2000.

Transportation

By air

Most international travellers arriving in Australia in landing at Sydney International Airport, about 25 minutes from downtown. A taxi from the airport to downtown costs about 24 to 30 Australian dollars.

There are minibus (shuttles) to the airport exit, which takes in the city where you want, and even in areas too far from the city for $ 10. We just have to wait until the driver makes full of passengers.

Sydney is less than an hour’s flight from Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra. A train service is the connection between the airport and the city centre.

By car

Sydney is at a reasonable distance from Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

• Melbourne - Sydney = 862 km via Albury (Hume Highway)
• Adelaide - Sydney = 1422km via Mildura or 1659km via Broken Hill (National Highway 32)
• Brisbane - Sydney = 938 km via Port Macquarie (Pacific Highway), or 961 km via Armidale (New England Highway)
• Canberra 

Speak

The official language in Japan is Japanese. English is taught at schools and high schools to all Japanese, they are generally all knowledge of a few words in English. However, the methods of teaching English in Japan, the lack of practice, and the key differences between the two languages make it uncommon to find people able to communicate effectively.

The french is that very few learned, and it is very rare to meet a practicing the Japanese.

However, the Japanese did not have a problem in pronunciation to a francophone, except perhaps for H sucked in as Hirohito.

Buy

The official currency is the Japanese Yen (Én is pronounced, as the letter N) a unit which is relatively small (1 € = about 170 yen), and there is no longer any subdivisions Yen. The Yen comes in coins of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen, and tickets for 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 yen (tickets 2000 yen are very common).

Most small stores will not accept international blue cards, and it is quite difficult to find an ATM internationally, even if they are becoming more numerous. It is therefore advisable to plan to always have enough cash on itself (which is not dangerous, since Japan is one of the safest in the world, and even if the basic precautions remain in force, the risk of being robbed is less money).

In the big cities, you can find ATMs accepting international cards at post offices (whose emblem is a red “T” surmounted by a second horizontal bar “?”) Or at some major hotels. A list of distributors is available on the sites of cards.

The Japanese are not accustomed to haggling, therefore, except in certain specific cases (flea markets, some small shops in the district of Akihabara), the prices are not negotiable.
Prices in Japan until recently were often given duty-free, so it was always, to get the actual price of an item, think about adding 5 percent compared to the prices displayed on the shelf. This is no longer the case, the law requiring traders to display the prices directly.

Eating

Japan is the gourmet delight by the variety and the simplicity of its dishes. Vegetarians, they will be pleased to discover the specialities zen-based raw vegetables only. Beware, however: even noodle soups “vegetables” usually contain a pork broth. When in doubt, do not hesitate to ask the managers. The addition will generally pay at the checkout. You do not have to give a tip: This is not a habit in Japan and the gesture could, in some cases, be misunderstood.

At the restaurant

In Japan, eating is one of the few things that are relatively cheap. You can eat quite well for 800 yen in 1200 in a restaurant correct. The menu is written in English sometimes, but it is by no means always the case. The servers speak only in a very rough English, but with pictures of the dishes almost systematically displayed in the menus and their reproduction in plastic window, the one who does not speak Japanese happens to be easily understood.

A note in cities abundance of signs like Yoshinoya, Matsuya … These establishments are commonly called “family restaurants” and offer cards with photos starting at 300-400 yen. There dégustera bowls of rice with vegetables or meat, and even eel fillets! The kitchen is a little greasy and not really high-end, but will satisfy those looking for a meal on the cheap.

Warning: some restaurants operate with ticket machines. We must insert amount corresponding to the flat of his choice, then press the appropriate button. The machine will then issue a ticket to return to the server. It saves time, but most of the machines of this type are Japanese … However, if you do not know the characters of your favorite noodles, do not panic! The staff, seeing the air lost traveller, will begin in four to help him.

The everyday cooking

Visitors will find a great number of stores opened 7 /7 and 24/24 (konbini) where there is an important choice of dishes all prepared very comprehensive (bentô) for an average price of 500 yen, which is warms directly in the store and ready-to-eat (chopsticks are provided). Such is flat with bowls of noodle soup, food, the most common Japanese worker.

The bentô industrial konbini are not as good as those provided by specialized booths in all stations of Japan (but more expensive). Features according to the award of the passenger.
Try again, the Japanese fast-food, often better than in France and offering dishes such as Burger Teriyaki sauce or shrimp nets … The price of hamburger around 200 yen.

Characteristics of Japanese cuisine

• Rice is, as many imagine, a major element of Japanese cuisine. In order to make possible use chopsticks, rice is slightly “sticky”. You should know that the Japanese do not use or very little soy sauce for rice (which would make it less sticky therefore very difficult to eat with chopsticks), but rather for other vegetables.
• Sushi, they are cheaper than in France, are still relatively expensive for the Japanese. Sushi restaurants would pay extra for seats at the counter. However, this does not apply in the case of other restaurants, where it is strongly advised to settle the face of the cooks who skillfully concoct their specialties before your eyes!
• The Japanese cuisine is distinguished especially of Chinese cuisine by the fact that it is often less fat and less spicy.

Vocabulary to know

Call a server: “Sumimasen!” (Submitted massaine-literally: “Excuse me!”)

“I would like this:” Kore o kudasai “(stuck-at-neck-dasse Ai-literally” this please “)

“It was very good”: “Gochisô sama deshita” (go-tchi-sot-water-sama-de-shita)

“That it contains meat (pork)?” (Buta) niku arimasuka Ga? (Bouta-nikou-Ga-food mass-ka)

Paying separately: Betsu-betsu (beast-sou-sou-beast)

Drinking

There is a variety of original drinks that deserve to be tested at least once every traveler curious.

The Japan includes a number of individual institutions called izakaya or serving alcoholic beverages in conjunction with a assortment of dishes. The fact going into izakaya for partying is something very rooted in Japanese culture, and although these institutions are generally very ill-suited to groups of foreign unaccompanied (Japanese menus only in the majority institutions), if you are lucky enough to have a Japanese friend who guides you, go to an izakaya is one of the typical experiences of Japanese culture.

On the other hand, you will most probably surprised by the number of vending machines that are scattered in the street. They are proving especially saving in the summer heat and offer a range of beverages, mostly non-alcoholic. These distributors are also in the large majority of cases, hot drinks, which are very useful when travelling in the winter. The prices of these beverages hovering around 120 yen.

Drinks

• The Japanese beers: beer (biiru in Japanese) is the alcoholic beverage most consumed in Japan. There are three major manufacturers of beer: Kirin, Asahi and Sapporo. The imported beers are rare.
• The Sake: sake, the term used in french is a misnomer on the word Japanese sake, which means alcoholic beverages in general, the word is used in Japanese nihon shu. The nihonshu is a moderate alcohol (usually around 13 °) product based on rice. Its taste is quite marked though not very sweet. It can be drunk either hot (atsukan) or cold (hiyashi).
• Umeshu: umeshu is a liqueur made based plum (ume in Japanese), which is extremely soft. This drink is generally much like to foreigners. You can either drink it over ice (rokku) is mixed with lemonade (soda wari)

Soft drinks

• Green tea (ocha): green tea is probably water after drinking the most common in Japan. When you go into restaurants, you will generally serve green tea in place of water. It is found too cold or hot, in the vending machines.
• The Western iced tea or ice tea (aisu tii): always in the category of thès, one can often take in the bars and restaurants of ice tea has noted that the drink has nothing to do with the brand that ‘can be found in France. In particular, it is less sweet.
• The Wulong Tea (ooron cha) is a variety of tea widespread in Japan. It is generally drunk cold and Unsweetened.
• The energy drinks: we find very often, and especially in vending machines, a number of drinks that are used in france in a sport.

Lodging

Given the population density of Japan, housing returns comparable to Paris. A good way to save money, especially for long stays, accommodation hostels. You can book accommodations directly via the Internet for some inns. In the street when you look for your hostel locate the blue and white logo of “Hostelling International” or the inclusion youth hostel in Japanese. Be aware that often there are no street names.

Learning

The school and university system of Japan remains, whatever people say, one of the most efficient in the world.

Higher education

Japan, which has the equivalent of preparatory classes at the French. The system is very elitist, and the work is hard during this period. While it tends to disappear slowly, the system of lifetime employment is still widespread in Japanese companies. It would be better to have made good grades. Once done with contests, student life, as in France, is far more serene. There is still a bit, but the competition has largely disappeared.

Security

There are no (or very little) of delinquency in Japan: very few cases of theft (excluding umbrellas, bicycles and sometimes), little aggression. The Japanese police system is effective.

By contrast, natural disasters pose a threat more practical. While the vast majority of earthquakes are too small to be felt by humans, some of them are devastating and can result in tidal waves (tsunamis in Japanese). The period from June to October is marked by typhoons, with strong winds and heavy rainfall.

Health

No particular problems, not to worry if you send in a hospital in Japan we go for nothing.

Respect

It should never be planted in the rice sticks, or take these sticks with food directly chopsticks another person (this recalls the cult of the dead where it is going bones of the deceased with chopsticks).

The Japanese avoid any physical contact (shake hands, do kiss, hug), it is better to make a small reverence.

We must remove their shoes when you enter in someone’s home.

Blow your nose is quite rude and then it is preferable to sniff.

Electricity

The voltage is 100 volts at 50Hz in eastern region (Tokyo, Yokohama, Tohoku, Hokkaido) and 60 Hertz in the west (Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Shikoku, Kyushu). Catches are similar to those of the United States. An adaptor plug for American power should be used if, of course, your equipment works with a voltage of 100V.

By Air

Air France has daily flights out of Paris (Roissy CDG) and to Tokyo-Narita (NRT) and the Kansai International Airport (KIX). The duration of the flight is approximately 12 hours. The airlines All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) also offer direct daily flights.

It is possible to take companies operating flights with a stopover (and sometimes without) to less than € 700 roundtrip. A company among them are: Aeroflot, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Alitalia, Korean Airline .

Korean Airline and East China Airline have the advantage in addition to their fares to serve many Japanese cities, and can offer the possibility of returning to a different city at no extra cost.

Once KIX has arrived, several buses and trains are available to the large cities of Kansai.

By Boat

South Korea: speed vessels connecting Fukuoka (Hakata) in Pusan, Korea. The trip takes about 2 hours.

By Train

Japan has an excellent rail system (TGV with frequencies subway), and it is possible to visit the majority of tourist sites in the process. The company’s main railway is the JR (Japan Railways) and covers almost all of the archipelago.

Note that JR proposes to foreign tourists formulas Japan Rail Pass, which can often be more advantageous than buying tickets to the unit. For example, the Japan Rail Pass 7 days is almost profitable if it makes a roundtrip Tokyo-Kyoto. The Japan Rail Pass is reserved for tourists and must be purchased prior to departure to Japan, and then validating presentation in Japan on the passport bearing the stamp tourist. There are Rail Pass 7, 14 and 21 days. See the website of the Japan Rail Pass

Note also that this concerns only pass routes JR. It does not, for example, the subways of Tokyo or Kyoto. In the case of Tokyo, however, there are JR lines which cover a large part of the city.

The distinction between subway and train in Japan is much less clear than in France, and it is possible, in the two major urban areas in Japan (the region of Tokyo and the Kansai) to move freely by using the subway.

By Bus

The bus can be a solution for the transport between cities, which, despite being slower than train is much cheaper than the latter. In Japan the transport is not very expensive, for example (taken from real events) A map of the cost of $ 6.67 Canadian provides access to all coaches from Japan. Whatever the distance this card is still valid.

For travelers on a tight budget, it may be interesting to travel between major cities in night buses (Yakô basu): they are generally of a very acceptable comfort and saving one night of the hotel. 

By Car

Unless you have planned a very special route that can not be followed by public transportation, driving in Japan is not something that you need to do because public transport is generally excellent, and you can go with almost everywhere. So do not even think. This is particularly advisable if you are not accustomed to driving on the left, and if you do not find yourself in the middle of traffic jams or monsters get lost for hours.

In addition, road signs are usually in Japanese characters and rarely transcribed in the Latin alphabet.

The archipelago consists of a main island (Honshu), 3 other large islands (Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu), as well as to Okinawa and a few small islands. Each island is divided into regions. Each region contains one or more prefectures.

Regions of Japan

1. Hokkaido
   • Main town: Sapporo
2. Tohoku
   • Prefectures: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata
   • Main town: Sendai
3. Kanto
   • Prefectures: Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, Tochigi, Tokyo
   • Main cities: Tokyo And Yokohama
4. Chubu
   • Prefectures: Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Toyama, Shizuoka, Yamanashi
   • Main cities: Kanazawa, Nagano And Nagoya
5. Kinki (Also known as the Kansai)
   • Prefectures: Hyogo, Kyoto, Mie, Nara, Osaka, Shiga, Wakayama
   • Main cities: Osaka Kobe , And Kyoto
6. Chugoku
   • Prefectures: Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, Yamaguchi
   • Main town: Hiroshima
7. Shikoku
   • Prefectures Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi, Tokushima
   • Main town: Takamatsu
8. Kyushu
   • Prefectures: Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Oita, Saga
   • Main town: Fukuoka
9. Okinawa
   • Main town: Naha

Towns

1. Tokyo
2. Yokohama
3. Osaka
4. Kyoto
5. Nara
6. Nagoya
7. Sapporo
8. Atami
9. Takamatsu

A camp Mar Lodj in the Sine-Saloum 

Tourism in Senegal is the second largest source of foreign exchange after fishing. It currently represents a turnover of 300 billion CFA francs, and in some places it is the first provider of income.The Senegal has enormous strengths in the regional and international market, but its tourism industry is experiencing difficulties and the country is also facing competition from new destinations such as Mauritania and Cape Verde islands.

Many efforts have already been made to improve the road network and decongest the capital. To reassure visitors, it was also necessary to ensure their security and tranquillity in a few places such as the Sandaga market Dakar-Plateau or the Lac Rose. Without going as far as the hero of the novel Aminata Sow Fall, The strike Bàttu the government has however announced the creation of a tourist police. The National Agency for the promotion of tourism (ANPT) was launched in 2004. The first stone of a new airport, the international airport Blaise Diagne, was raised in 2007.

The state now hopes to welcome 1.5 million tourists by 2010 and 2 million by 2015, if possible more evenly distributed over time and the espace9. How many are there now? In the absence of tools for the record, it is difficult to be precise. That is why the introduction of an entry visa was envisagée10. According Pope Abdoul Niang, the union employers in the industry and tourist hotels in Senegal 11, are now 700000, but that figure seems high, in comparison with previous data.

The Centre Rogers or Rogers Centre (formerly SkyDome) is the main stadium in the city of Toronto in Ontario, located at the foot of the CN Tower on the shores of Lake Ontario. It is mainly used for sporting events such as baseball, football Canadian, and also for the basketball and wrestling. The Centre Rogers sometimes organizes concerts, lectures and exhibitions.Since 1989, its tenants are the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League in MLB and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. In 2008, the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League decided to play one game per season at Rogers Centre. Between 1995 and 1999, the Toronto Raptors played their home games before moving into the Air Canada Centre. The Vanier Cup is back in the chamber in 2007.

The Rogers Centre is famous for being the first stadium to have a motorized retractable roof that cost $ 100 million, a hotel with 348 rooms is committed to him (Renaissance Hotel $ 112 million), with 70 rooms overlooking the field. This is also the stage of North America’s most recent built for the Canadian football and major league baseball, although some of the new stadiums in baseball sometimes hosted occasional football matches university.

The stadium has a capacity of 50516 seats for baseball, for football 53506 Canadian 37000 for basketball and between 10000 and 55000 for concerts depending on the configuration. It has 161 Skyboxes (suites) for the more affluent.

The CN Tower or officially Canada’s National Tower is a tower of 553.33 meters located in the center of Toronto, Canada, which has become the emblem of the city . The tower is sometimes called the Canadian National Tower because the railway company Canadian National (CN) was the owner of the tower. Tourists can reach only halfway up to a platform with multiple levels between 342 m and 351 m above sea level: a revolving restaurant (which performs a complete circuit in 72 minutes), an observation platform, and a transparent floor.It was built in 1976 by the Canadian National (CN) who wanted to show the strength of the Canadian industry by building the tallest building in the world. Originally planned as an antenna for radio and television, it is now one of the main tourist attractions in Toronto. In 1995, Canada Lands Company purchased the tower. The Crown corporation has since renamed Canada’s National Tower, a name less common than CN tower.

The Sky Pod (a small platform, which is well above the main floor observation) is located 447 m, and is the highest observation post opened to the public in the world. Go to the Sky Pod is done by paying a fee.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the CN Tower was “the highest standing structure in the world.” On Sept. 13, 2007, the Burj Dubai exceeds the CN Tower, which makes it lose its title’s tallest free standing structure in the world.

The CN Tower is one of the seven wonders of the modern world, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. She also belongs to the Federation of the great towers of the World. It is the central theme of the novel Thus speaks the CN Tower, poet and novelist francophone Toronto Hedi Bouraoui.

So, in perspective, if the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lampur, and, more recently, the Tour Taipeï Taipeï 101 of the tallest buildings in the world, the CN Tower in Toronto remains the 2nd tallest building.

Toronto is the largest city in Canada, with more than 2.5 million inhabitants (6136654 in the Greater Toronto in 2006) (Toronto) on 630 sq. km.

Toronto is the capital of the Province of Ontario (former Upper Canada) and the metropolitan economy. The population of Greater Toronto 6136654 inhabitants. It is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, which it is the economic heart. Toronto is a modern city whose multicultural face now only 40% of the population is of British origin old. The lingua franca has always been English (spoken by almost a hundred percent of the population), with the Italian, Portuguese and Chinese are also fairly common.

Toronto is at the heart of the intellectual and cultural life of English-speaking Canada. The English-language channel of the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, as well as TV and TFO, strings anglophone and francophone Ontario government. Most publishing houses are located in Toronto. The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) at the Harbourfront Centre is the first literary festival in English Canada. Toronto is also a centre of production for the film and theatre (International Film Festival in Toronto ([1]). The National Ballet of Canada and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are in Toronto. There are two local newspapers, the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun and two national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and National Post. Furthermore there several daily newspapers (Metro, 24 Hours) and weekly (Now, Eye, …). The Toronto Public Library has Among other things, the largest public collection of documents relating to the science fiction, the Merril Collection, stocked with over 55000 articles.

The city enjoys an extensive system of public transport (the Toronto Transit Commission), the Metro (four lines, 69 stations), trams in the city centre, and buses. The line is considered to be cleaner than the average, but suffers from the fact that it does not cover the whole city, plus it does only highway going north-south in the city, making traffic in the City very difficult and creates pollution problems. Often pollution will not see the top of the largest skyscrapers. The Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario (the largest in the country) serves the Greater Toronto Area and the southern part of the province.

Sites to Visit 

CN Tower to 553 metres.
SkyDome or Rogers Centre, sports centre
Toronto’s City Hall
Queen’s Park, site of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
St. Michael’s Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Toronto.
St. James Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
Princess of Wales Theatre and Royal Alexandra Theatre
Royal Ontario Museum
University of Toronto
Bata Shoe Museum
Le Petit Glenn
The castle Casa Loma
The Hall of Fame hockey (Hockey Hall of Fame)
The Woodbine racetrack.

Sports

Among all Canadian cities Toronto has the largest amount of professional teams, including the most popular locally is his hockey team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. At a lower level, the city contains many amateur leagues and hundreds of arenas. Although hockey is quite as dominant sport, there is a large community of immigrants from countries where football is the favourite activity, and soccer is actually very common too. Trying to capitalize on this, the MLS has founded a football club in 2006, called Toronto FC. The team made its debut in the League in April 2007.