Quebec City Day 3

Montmorency Falls, Basilique St Anne de Beaupre and Ile d'Orleans ...

As the weather was drizzly and unpredictable so we decided to take the car and look at some attractions outside of Old Quebec, This is the view from the cable car going up to the Montmorency Falls about 20 minutes from Old Quebec

Montmorency Manor at the top of the cable car

The view from the Manor overlooking the St Lawrence River

After visiting the Falls this was the way down! Alternatively you could use the cable car again!

Initial view of the Falls. The pedestrian footbridge (top left) is where we are headed!

Looking down over the Falls from the pedestrian footbridge

In the distance is the two lane bridge that goes over to Ile d'Orleans. We will take this later

View back up the St Lawrence towards Quebec City

There were some spectacular views of the Falls on the way down the steps

Just slightly higher than Niagara Falls but nothing like the volume of water

Anne at the base of the Falls

Yes, we had just walked down all those steps. There were many people walking up!

Having left the Falls we went a further 20 minutes down the road to Sainte Anne de Beaupre where we were astonished to see this enormous Basilica. Apparently it is a shrine to St Anne who is Jesus' grandmother. We get the impression that pilgrims come from all over to visit this shrine

When we walked inside it was just stunning. It was enormous and so beautifully decorated

The ceilings were fantastic

This was the statue of St Anne

After having some lunch we decided to visit the Ile d'Orleans (remember the two lane suspension bridge?). This island is in the middle of the St Lawrence River and is about 30 kms long and 11 kms wide and noted for its fresh farm produce, wineries and chocolate. So I had to sample a chocolate coated ice cream

Terri tried a different flavour of ice cream!

The houses on the Ile d'Orleans were really cute and, in parts, it reminded us of English countryside

Another example of the houses. Tomorrow we set off for a 5 hour drive to Middlebury in Vermont, US. Our half way stop to Boston were we will return the rental car