"Some pictures of Niagara ..." a Niagara Falls Travel Page by kokoryko

I knew I would not meet Marylin Monroe at the Niagara falls, but at least I remembered the H. Hathaway movie, the thrilling scenes with these extraordinary falls as background, and the hot, erotic, "sex-appealing" performance of Marilyn .
Niagara falls and sex ? ? Nothing in common probably, but strangely I thought of one, when visiting the other!
I spent one short day at the Falls, coming from Toronto by Greyhound , the easiest way for a backpacking tourist .
Geography course is not the purpose of this page and here is a link to know more on the falls: http://www.iaw.com/~falls/origins.html and some good pics on : web.ics.purdue.edu ; I just spent a day trying to avoid the crowds (not easy in summer, here), trying to make abstraction from most artifacts around, just trying to feel how it could be in natural state. Very impressive for an European, even an experienced traveller ( not a virtual one, a real one! ) . Like everybody, I purchased tickets but, unlike everybody, I walked, slowly , very slowly, listening as much as possible,filling my ears, my brain, my body with this overwhelming roaring; near the falls, or at the end of the tunnel ("journey behind the falls" as they call it) tried to get as wet as possible, yes, why not feeling the water , the moist, the drops falling on you.
In the late afternoon, waiting for the bus back to Toronto, I had a walk in the small village of Niagara Falls, looking at the antique shops, watching the birds in the gardens and noticing almost nobody (compared to the crowds at the falls!) visited this small village near the bus terminal. People there are lucky not having the mass-tourists invading their place.

We all like to visit some places and even have a coffe or beer after visiting (not all of us!) , use a toilet, etc. . .
Mr MONEY probably drives a lot ( Probably? no, certainly!) of what we do on the planet. I add Google Earth images of the Niagara area before all the ugly buildings, hotels shopping centers were built.
The pic is not nice and we see already buildings and contruction places.
Everybody on earth is allowed to visit places like that, but how can we prevent building these ugly things, supposed to need everybody's needs.