- All right.
My headset's about to go on
and we are going to take
a doors off helicopter
flight over Ottawa.
Are you ready, Dave?
- Oh, I'm ready, baby.
- [Deb In this video,
we share the best places
to visit in Ottawa during the fall season.
There are so many things to do in Ottawa,
we made other videos
highlighting the top attractions.
So be sure to click on the links below,
to see what to do in the city
in the summer and the winter.
Some activities may be
affected by COVID-19.
So be sure to check out the
attractions for opening hours
and activities, as things
are constantly changing.
We're at the Space and
Aviation Museum here in Ottawa,
and we are about to go
on a helicopter flight.
We're gonna look over the fall colors.
This is one of the best
places in the world
to view fall colors.
And it's spectacular
- It's gonna be awesome.
You ready?
- I'm ready.
(plane engine rolling)
- I'm taking the front left,
it's the best one because
I'm taking photos.
Hurry up we go
- A Doors off helicopter
flight can be booked
through Heli-Tremblant at the Canadian
Aviation and Space Museum.
There are several tours to choose from
and you have access to the
museum before or after your trip.
When you book your tour here in Ottawa,
you get to leave from the
Space and Aviation Museum,
and it is a worth
visiting just on its own.
You get to walk through all of the history
of aviation here in Canada.
It's a great display of planes
and then go on your helicopter
flight and what a day
Our flight took us over the Ottawa skyline
and parliament buildings,
plus the beautiful fall
colors of Gatineau.
It truly was a once in
a lifetime experience,
but be sure to bundle up as
Canada can get chilly in autumn.
- All right a huge thank you to Simon here
from Heli-Tremblant
Thanks man.
- Much welcome
- That was an incredible flight,
and I loved that you actually
told me what all the dials
meant on the front of
the helicopter as well.
I've always wanted to know that.
If you come here to Ottawa,
make sure you jump in with Heli-Tremblant
and do a flight over the city,
you will not regret it.
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- A great day trip from Ottawa is to visit
Upper Canada Village
And when you come during
the month of October,
they have Pumpkin Inferno.
It's been going since 2012 and each year
they put on a display of
thousands of carved pumpkins
with their lights and themes.
All of these pumpkins
are made by local artists
who are students and they work
nonstop from may to September
carving these pumpkins.
Now upper Canada village
is a 19th century village.
So once it closes on September 15th,
they only have two weeks
to get ready for this.
And it is a kilometer and a half of just
all these pumpkin displays.
So they have a team of 16 people,
four different teams are working
on setting up all of the pumpkins
and they are working nonstop
hard for two solid weeks
to put on this fantastic display.
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We are about to go into Laurier House.
It's a national historic site
and it was home to two
of our prime ministers
here in Ottawa.
It was home to prime minister,
Mackenzie King and Laurier
and word has it, that it's haunted.
And that's what we're about to do,
go in for a haunted tour, hoo hoo hoo
Okay, we're about to go inside,
and I just wanna tell you
that no cameras are allowed
because we use the equipment in there,
No phones have to go completely off
because that disrupts
what's the supernatural.
So I'll tell you all
about it when I get out.
Hoo hoo hoo
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Okay, so we just came
out of the haunted tour
and that was terrifying, I'm not joking.
We did a little surveillance,
the EMPS were going off
whenever something happened,
we couldn't look back.
We all were like, let's
get out of this place,
and everyone ran out.
Like once we broke the circle,
we all felt chills, we all
felt cold at the same time.
And I'm freaking, I'm shaking
a bit, I'm not joking.
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We are going into the Diefenbunker.
This is the cold war museum.
They made a bunker in
case of a nuclear war
for our prime minister at the time.
And we are on our way in to see it.
- Into the bunker, we go.
- The Diefenbunker was
created so that the government
could maintain control, if a atomic bomb
or nuclear bomb went off.
So this is where all
the military personnel
would be running the government still,
should they have to go down underground.
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- It's kind of neat 'coz
they have all the set up
of what the rooms would be
like, back in like the sixties.
So it's kind of like you're stuck in 1963,
but it's cool to see how
you live underground.
We are at the Mackenzie King
Estate here in Gatineau park,
and these are the Abbey ruins
and it's quite beautiful.
I would never expect to
see anything like this
here in Canada.
The Mackenzie King Estate is
definitely worth visiting,
and if you come early in
the morning, nobody's here.
Cause it doesn't really
open until 11 o'clock,
I think 11 in the morning.
So we have the Abbey all to ourselves,
It's the fall colors and it
is really, really pretty.
Mackenzie King was the
prime minister of Canada
for a whopping 21 and a half years.
This was his summer estate
and a walk through the Abbey
ruins and gardens is a must,
when visiting Ottawa any time of year.
- [Both] Welcome to King
mountain trail lookout.
- There are plenty of hikes
in Gatineau that offer
astounding lookout views
to see the fall colors.
King mountain trail is one
of the most popular hikes,
so be sure to get there early
parking lots fill up quickly,
as all trails are busy
and see a lot of crowds.
Trails open at 8:00am and
there's often a lot of traffic,
so arrive early to be first in the park.
There are also free
shuttles that will take you
from Downtown Ottawa to get Gatineau.
It's sunrise here at Meech Lake.
And this is one of the few
places that you can come for
a nice Lake reflection here at
sunrise at the Gatineau park
because they close all of
the Gates until 8:00am.
They're a little worried about
overpopulation of tourism.
We're gonna try and get this
and then head over to a few
of the lookouts at inside Gatineau park
before it gets too busy.
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A great day hike here is at pink Lake.
They have boardwalks all the way around
and the trails are really well marked.
There's high lookouts,
there's low lookouts,
and it's quite beautiful
here in the fall colors.
- Come to pink Lake Look out.
Pretty amazing some great
colors, beautiful reflections.
You gotta come here, even
if it's not fall colors,
it's gorgeous.
- What I love about it is, that
it's a boardwalk all around,
so you're not impacting
the environment at all.
And that's so important
but one quick trip,
one very important tip come
early because it gets busy.
- Oh yeah, most definitely.
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- We are driving through Parc
Omega and it's a great park
filled with Canadian wildlife
and right behind me, right
over here are the Arctic foxes.
They're so cute to watch.
We'd been here before in the winter
and now we're back here in the
fall to see the fall colors.
It's raining a little bit,
but the animals are
pretty frisky and friendly
at this time of year.
Be very quiet, I'm looking for bears.
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- Pretty cool.
You can get right up and
close with the deer here
and all the animals here at Parc Omega.
How fun is that?
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- We are at Parc Omega and we are staying
here at Wolf lodge.
And it's really wild
because we are staying
in the Wolf enclosure
and look there is a pack of wolves
outside in a big sanctuary out here,
and they are as curious
of us, as we are of them.
Tonight we get to sleep here
and I'm hoping that they howl.
I think it will be quite amazing.
We can hear everything out there
and they can hear everything in here.
So it's pretty wild to do this
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(wolves howling)
Well, it's early morning
here in Parc Omega.
We've been up since
4:00am because the wolves
have been howling and I'm telling you,
how do you sleep when
you see wolves howling?
they get pretty busy this time of morning.
It's amazing to listen to.
- Yeah, they're super active
and there's nothing like
a Wolf howl to wake up to.
(wolves howling)
- This is really a spectacular experience.
Check in is at 4:00pm
If you can now try come a bit early,
maybe three, three 30 and
see if your room is ready
so that you can spend the time
out here on the boardwalk.
It's really special to see.
- Say bye to the wolves, bye guys.
Thanks for a good night.
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Alright we're here at Dominion City,
trying out a few of their beers here.
That's pretty good.
- Ottawa has a thriving microbrewery scene
and a beer tour with brew donkey,
it's a fun night out
where you get to visit
three different breweries with
tasting tours at each one.
- After this tour,
I want you all to walk
out of here with a smile
on your face.
That's mainly because
of one of three reasons,
One, you're drunk
I might've made it sound
(indistinct)
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- We are at the Canadian
Museum of History.
It is Canada's most visited museum.
And behind me is the largest
collection of totem poles.
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Well for those of you who travel a lot,
You have probably seen
Canadians around the world
with our Canadian flag
sewn on our backpack.
Well, here at the Museum
of History in Gatineau
across the river from Ottawa,
they actually celebrate the
tradition of Canadian sewing
the flag on their back.
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- It was a pretty cool museum.
I can't believe we never
been in here before.
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- Canada really does have
beautiful parliament buildings.
You could simply walk around the exterior
to take in the view, but a
tour is highly recommended.
Tours are free and they
last for about 45 minutes.
You have to go through
a security screening
just like at the airport
and because of the pandemic
be sure to check beforehand,
to see if it's open,
because at the time of this publication,
all government offices are closed.
- Enjoying The House of
Commons tour here in Ottawa.
We're in the committee room.
- Well, that was an interesting
tour of The House of Commons
We went into The House of Commons
and now we are going into
the Room of Remembrance
and it pays tribute to all of the people,
all of the Canadians
that lost their lives,
giving service to Canada.
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- Well It's a day of
discovering all of our
parliament system and our
government here in Canada.
And now we're going to explore the Senate.
Now this building had
been close for a decade
and now it's reopened.
So I'm very excited to check it all out.
Like the parliament free
tours are offered daily,
but you do have to book in advance
and just like the parliament,
be sure to check before you go.
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