More than 12 million visitors come each year to see Niagara Falls, one of North America’s greatest tourist attractions. There are taller waterfalls elsewhere, but the sheer size and tremendous volume of Niagara Falls are unsurpassed. There is no admission fee to see the Niagara Falls, and the popular attractions at the Falls are reasonably priced. The most popular, the Maid of the Mist, runs from April to October and costs $11.50 USD.

Visit NFTA.com to see the schedule for the #40 bus, which runs regularly from the bus station in downtown Buffalo to Niagara Falls, NY. The downtown bus station is very convenient to the hostel, and the bus stop in Niagara Falls is a short walk to the Niagara Falls State Park. Return fare is $3.50.

Pedestrians who have a visa waiver for the USA or who have obtained a tourist visa for Canada may walk across the Rainbow Bridge to visit Niagara Falls CANADA. Visit to to www.cic.gc.ca find out if you need a tourist visa to visit Canada. Anyone who crosses the border must show proof of citizenship— normally with a passport, although those from the USA may show a state-issued photo identification.

Links for photos and more information about Niagara Falls:

Niagara Falls USA - www.niagara-usa.com

Niagara Falls USA - www.niagarafallsstatepark.com

Maid of the Mist board rides, since 1846 - www.maidofthemist.com

" When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job.

Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. The sound of a jet, and engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and the vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable." - John Steinbeck