It's International polar bear day today so we thought would could be better than experiencing the magic of looking into the eye of a polar bear?
If you happen to know someone who has seen polar bears in the wild, chances are they're most likely to have seen them in Churchill. The Canadian polar bear town in Manitoba calls itself the Polar Bear Capital of the World – deservedly so. Seeing the Churchill polar bears is a bucket list experience. Via: Travel2Next
The landscape around Churchill is a barren picture of earthy hues pockmarked with bushes and boulders of the Precambrian shield. Churchill has a fascinating geology with some of the oldest rocks on the planet. Grey clouds hang in the sky and the muted colours paint a bleak picture. Yet, there's an unearthly beauty in this isolated outpost.
There's even a post office where you can get your passport stamped to prove you have visited the Polar Bear Capital of the World.
Polar bears have been spotted at Cape Merry Battery, near the gunpowder magazine. Built in 1746, the magazine was used to guard the fur trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company. A crashed Curtis C-46 Commando freight plane called Miss Piggy also has plenty of hiding spots for polar bears. Other haunts for the Churchill polar bears are the beach, the forest and the airplane wreck.
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