When I visited Canada, I found some awesome features in the City of Toronto, one of which is the underground PATH in Toronto City, a city underneath the city as some might say.
This PATH is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with retail space according to Guinness World Records. These pedestrian tunnels connect to subways, shopping malls, skyscrapers where people work, hotels even some homes. There are escalators and elevators going up into the buildings you walk underneath and exits that go to the outside.
It is mainly for winter when people do not want to walk around outside in the snow and ruin their high heels or work suits or freeze to death. This makes it easier for Canadians to go to the office from their home using the subway or walking directly to work from their home if they live near the PATH in the winter days.
They can even grab a meal at the food franchises on their way to work or for lunch in the underground path and go grocery shopping after work.
Now of course it was completely empty when we went through it as we went in the middle of summer, which was also extraordinary to see... completely empty underground pedestrian tunnels and retails stores.
It is easy to get lost down there, as it's massive and we did not even get to explore all of it, in fact we did get lost and had to ask the one person that luckily passed us for directions. There were about 5 people all together wandering around in the underground path, however in winter I was told the path is overpopulated, something I would also much like to see.
There was one mall open during this time but it looked like two co-workers just enjoying themselves as if they were in their own glass home.
I can imagine the Path is a great place to seek shelter from storms as well.
The path is very classy and sleek with marble tiles on the ground and walls, the way you know that you've finished walking underneath a building is when the marble tiles are a different colour as they are a different colour depending on the theme of the building you are walking underneath.
This was something extraordinary to see from my perspective from a country where I have never seen snow and I hope other people find this interesting as well.
Here you can see a photo of an exhausted me walking around in the underground path which has no end in sight, yet I'm amazed at the beautiful architecture.
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