Blogs from Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 14

1st July Had to switch rooms today as we only had the one we were in for two days so packed everything up including all the Canadian tat and shifted to an equally nice room if somewhat smaller. Drove up to Lake Louise not too long a drive by local standards, the water was an incredible blue colour looked really inviting wanted to jump in and swim around that was until i put a hand in and thought better of it,so went horse riding instead just a one hour trek the horses do the same trek all the time so basically we sat on them and went wherever they decided did do a little work guiding them, at one point we were supposed to ride around a tree and head back my horse(chevy) had other ideas ... read more

monday 29th june - left uncle bobbie and aunt margaret's to travel to the rockies. we were to stay for three nights in banff. set off about noon stopped a couple of times along the way and arrived at hotel in tunnel montain about 5pm. got into the chalet and unpacked, aunt margaret went to reception to get extra seats and came back 10 mins later to say she'd found a better place. so we packed again and moved across the road to another hotel. wow! it was way better it was huge, there was two bedrooms upstairs and (1 double & 1 with 2 doubles) both ensuite. and downstairs was a king size room with a jacuzzi. it also had a full kitchen and 2 balconies. the view was amazing! the hotel had a fitness ... read more

May 26 Hotel: Fairmont Banff Springs Today the plan was to pick up our rental car and explore the area around Banff. We had arranged a one-way rental from Avis to drop off in Calgary the following Saturday. That ended up being pretty pricy; a one-way rental that was 1 day too short to be counted as a weekly; also picking up from a neighborhood Avis station. Nome of the coupons/AWD I tried really brought the price down any! There was also the issue of parking; the Fairmonts in Banff and Lake Louise charge ~$30-$35 per night for parking! Luckily I had read on Flyertalk just before leaving that there were places to park nearby for free. In Banff you can park along the road leading away from the hotel. In Lake Louise there is a ... read more

Highly recommended by Col, we drove up to Columbia Icefield and Jasper town, before heading back to Banff town for the night. The drive from Lake Louise to Jasper was approx 250km. Expected to just take at most 3 hrs to get there. But the scenery was simply too breathtaking. Every corner, every bend, every angle depicts the majesty of the Rockies. Naturally, we stopped at different look out points to take photo and more photos. We were told that there will be waterfalls everywhere... we tried very hard to look for it but to no avail. Finally we realised that the waterfall are all frozen and they looked like a strip of ice on the mountains. Arrived at the Columbia Icefield and gazed at the spectacular thick mass of ice. A pity the icefiled is ... read more

Canada has so much to offer with such a beautiful landscapes. Falls is a good time for landscape photography as well as winter. Banff & Jasper National Parks are truly beautiful parks that i hope everybody could go & see for themselves. ... read more