Popular tourist attractions in Lunenburg (Canada)

When to go: July for the Lunenburg Street Festival and Art Walk and the Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival, August for the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival featuring traditional and contemporary folk music. July through September for Sunday afternoon concerts at the Heritage Bandstand. How to get around: Kiwi Kaboodle offers a daily door to door shuttle service from Halifax. It you stick to town you won't need a car. Take in the shops and cafes of Lunenburg by foot. Sign up for a local walking tour. Seventh generation local Shalah Allen takes visitors out daily. There are lots of beautiful places you can visit but there's so much more substance to this place she says. That's not a tangible thing. It's a feeling you get when you're here. Horse and carriage tours offer a chance  get an overview without wearing out your walking shoes.                     

Popular tourist attractions Yellowknife and Great Slave Lake (Canada)

How to Get Around: Downtown Yellowknife is compact and walkable but you' ll want a rental car to explore more outlying areas. Heading further afield You'll probably need a floatplane. Where to Stay: The Explorer Hotel in downtown Yellowknife is the go to place to stay. But if you' re keen to visit Old Town Brent Reaney publisher of local magazine EDGE YK offers another option: Bayside Bed and Breakfast is comfortably furnished and does a great eggs Benedict Reaney says. Its rare waterfront location is as great in summer as it is in winter. Want to get out on Great Slave The Plummer family helped pionner fly in fishing lodges in the north they first landed back in 1938 where their Great Slave Lake lodge now sits.   

Popular tourist place in the world

Cliff walking : Dubbed the world's deadliest hike the Huashan mountain trail in China is not for the faint hearted. Tethered to a safety line on the rock face hikers make their way across wooden planks and sheer cliff edge to reach one of the world' s most remote tea houses over 2000m high. There are plenty of other (slightly) less pant wetting paths around the world like the Caminito el Rey in Spain which underwent a hefty restoration in 2015.                                                   

High altitude urban experience : Adture activities are often thought to be the remit of the great outdoors but thrill seekers can get all their kicks without venturing to the sticks. Many cities offer high altitude adrenaline pumping tours from abseiling off famous buildings to walking around the outer edges of iconic skyscrapers attached to a safety wire. New Zealand's Auckland Sky Tower and Toronto' s CN Tower both offer tours around their heady heights. Alternatively try abseiling 100m down Rotterdam' s Euromast. I cried real tears on the CN Tower EdgeWalk. But honestly it was life changing and there' s not really much I' m scared of anymore. Lauren Finney US Magazine Editor at Lonely Planet.