23 Hours in Montreal, Montreal, Canada

On the way to Peru, my younger brother Brandon and I had a long stopover in Montr茅al, the largest city in the French part of Canada and the second-largest in all of Canada after聽Toronto. As you might have gathered from this blog, I love exploring new places, and I think that a long stopover is a great way to do just that. Despite not having much time, a long stopover gives you a taste of the place and then you can always return later, if you liked it there. So whenever there鈥檚 an option to do a long stopover on the way to somewhere else, I always take it.

This time around, there was an option to have a 23-hour stopover in Montr茅al en route to Lima, so my brother and I decided to do it!

After a long, but comfortable eight-hour flight with Air Canada to Toronto with great in-flight food (first time ever, I think!), three hours of waiting and another one-hour flight, we finally arrived in Montr茅al at 5.15 PM on June 11th, ready for two half days of city explorations! We caught a bus to the city center and easily found our hostel, Auberge L鈥橝pero, which was just what we needed for the one night as it was cheap and central. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).

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Guide Name: 23 Hours in Montreal
Guide Location: Canada » Montreal
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Melissa Cherry Villumsen
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Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:

Auberge L鈥橝pero
Mount Royal
Notre-Dame Basilica
Chinatown
De la Gauchetiere Street
Saint Helen鈥檚 Island

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