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Tours of the City Walking Tours Walking tours of Toronto are available from Toronto Footsteps (tel: (416) 483 5483) and A Taste of the World (tel: (416) 923 6813; website: www.torontowalksbikes.com), who also offer bicycle tours. Guided tours of the city’s natural heritage are available from Toronto Field Naturalists (tel: (416) 593 2656). Architectural walks are available from Unique Views (tel: (416) 531 7770). There are also a variety of signposted, self-guided walks that wind through the city’s many parks and green spaces. Alternatively, visitors have the option of exploring the vast labyrinth of interconnected shopping areas that underlie Downtown’s office towers. The ten kilometres (six miles) PATH network (website: www.city.toronto.on.ca/path) links shopping, services and entertainment venues between the two branches of the Yonge–University–Spadina subway south of Dundas Street. Bus Tours Grayline Tours (tel: (416) 594 3310; website: www.grayline.ca/toronto) runs hop-on, hop-off tours of the city centre in open-topped double-decker buses and turn-of-the-century trolley buses. A full circuit lasts two hours and costs C$31 (concessions available). Toronto Hippo Tours (tel: (416) 703 4476 or (877) 635 5510; website: www.torontohippotours.com) offers an ‘amphibus’ (amphibious bus) that provides an hour-long tour of the city streets. Points of interest include the CN Tower, the SkyDome and Toronto City Hall – before entering the water at Ontario Place for a half-hour tour around Toronto’s harbour. The cost is C$35 (concessions available). |
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