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Combine culture and cuisine. The perfect couple’s getaway is waiting with theatre, dining and discounted accommodations. Visit the website of Neptune Theatre, Halifax’s long-standing performance venue, and explore the package options for a weekend in the city.

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Summer Vacation Ideas

Surf’s up. The sun’s out. The seafood is sizzling. The swimming, sailing, cycling, and sightseeing are all superb. Come soak up all that summer has to offer. From the long weekend in May through to Labour Day, our calendar is full with more than 500 festivals and events from the month-long, Cape Breton-wide Lobsterpalooza to the September’s Wharf Rat Rally in Yarmouth, the largest motor cycle rally in Eastern Canada. This is the season for all kinds of fun.

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Summer - Clam Harbour Sand Castle Festival

Pick a beach, any beachThere are more than 100 accessible beaches spread out along the 7,400 km of coastline, so whatever your beach-style, you’ll find something to love right here. From relaxed family fun stretching out along the Bay of Fundy at Melmerby Beach to the serious surf action at Lawrencetown to the Sand Castle Festival at Clam Harbour.

 
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Digby Scallop Days Festival

Make the most of the coastNova Scotia’s beaches and seacoast showcase diverse opportunities to sea-kayak, bird watch, beachcomb, swim or surf, and provide a spectacular backdrop for seacoast celebrations like the Digby Scallop Days festival. Lighthouses, tall ships, and freshly landed seafood.

 
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Summer - Bay of Fundy

Go Big in the Bay of FundyThe highest tides in the world rise and fall in the Bay of Fundy.  The huge tidal range of 16 metres (54 feet) creates some spectacular opportunities for adventure from whale-watching  where the giants of the deep surface almost within arm’s reach to taking a rollercoaster ride atop the tidal bore in a Zodiac raft. Throw in some breathtaking bird watching and stunning scenery and your Fundy vacation experience will be one for the record books.

 
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Summer - Fortress LouisbourgTake it back a century or two… or three or fourHistory lives here. In fact, it sets off a cannon off every day at noon. It gathers for huge historic reenactments. It grows roses in ancient gardens. And welcomes you aboard a saltbank schooner and takes you for a tour of some of the continent’s oldest graveyards. Visit any of Nova Scotia’s 13 world-class National Historic Sites of Canada, including the Fortress of Louisbourg, Halifax Citadel and the 18th century streets of "Old Town" Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Town.
 
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Sea Kayaking

Pick a package for Extra FunCheck out all the ways to save when you take advantage of romance, food and wine, family fun, or seacoast exploring packages. Added value means more of your budget to spend on the things that really make a vacation great – like fresh lobster, a vineyard tour, a wild raft ride on the world’s highest tides…

2010-08-11
A unique and lovely place. What a find. A gorgeous post-and-beam cottage in a private spot on the ...

(Source: Favourite Places in Nova Scotia)
2010-08-06
Hello, My wife and I are from Ohio . We took a vacation to your lovely province in 2006. We spent ...

(Source: Favourite Places in Nova Scotia)
2010-07-16
Getting close to 30 years ago I had the opportunity to spend 2 summers working at the Keltic Lodge ...

(Source: Favourite Places in Nova Scotia)
2010-07-06
I recently returned to Nova Scotia for a delayed honeymoon and meet the family for my new husband. ...

(Source: Favourite Places in Nova Scotia)
2010-05-09
My father took my older brother and I on the train from Oshawa to Halifax. We arrived in Halifax at ...

(Source: Favourite Places in Nova Scotia)
2010-09-01
If you love to be at one with nature, Kejimkujik Seaside offers a beautiful place to explore for a day.  With beautiful trails, a white beach awaits you and if you are lucky the seals might be waving from the...

(Source: Nova Scotia, my Oyster)
2010-09-01
White Point Beach..it's rustic, it's charming, it's wonderful!

(Source: Nova Scotia, my Oyster)
2010-08-31
Regardless of how you spend your days it's hard not to be envious of our whale watch tour operators around the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Sample these recent posts & see if you feel the same way!!

(Source: The Bay of Fundy)
2010-08-31
An afternoon drive along the Mini Cabot Trail to Cape George gives breathtaking views and a "must visit" to the lighthouse.

(Source: The Right Coast, Nova Scotia)
2010-08-10
Well known to fossil hunters, this small village was founded by Scottish immigrants in the 1700's.

(Source: The Right Coast, Nova Scotia)