Blogs from Banff, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 11

The must try restaurants & foods in Kingston! My Favs: Oaktail, rice and peas, with salad. Roasted breadfruit with ackee and saltfish. Jamaican patties! Sweetwood Jerk Joint - A rustic and authentic Jamaican Jerk Shack cooking amazing cuisines on a BBQ over Pimento wood. Specializing in traditional dishes such as jerk chicken and pork, roasted fish with festival, roasted breadfruit and sweet potatoes. Jewel of India - The restaurant specializes in northern Indian cuisines and has a range of authentic dishes including different meats to seafood, vegetarian and traditional Indian deserts. Best thing on the menu: Tandoori Wings, Lamb Boti Kebab- Boneless chunks of spice lamb, marinated and roasted on skewers. Kheer- Rice pudding with almonds and raisins. Cake Shoppe - Great selection of different cakes such as chocolate, ban... read more

I woke with a slight hangover, which I’m sure most of the others did as well, and we finally headed into BANFF for a fry up breakfast Melanie's Missteak restaurant on one of the back streets near the main street. After a brief wait, Joanna, Kristina, Sarah and I shared a table, with the girls having cereal, and Sarah and I having some big cooked breakfast to get our day started on the right foot. After breakfast, Todd took us through the town, across the bridge and up and around to the Banff Springs Hotel in the hills looking down on the town and the surrounding mountains and nature around. As I walked around the hotel it reminded me of the Celtic Manor in Newport near Cardiff and made me want to visit it again. It’s ... read more

What a nice day...!! We were ready to continue our journey to Banff. At 8:00 a.m. the ladies had prepared the foods, cookies, and water. The guys had also checked the vehicle, and the other stuff. Then suddenly, they saw the right rare tire was less air.. gosh!! why it happened when we were ready to leave.. but my uncle told me that we just have to add more air. So, I was relief. My uncle drove the truck, me was seated on the right as a navigator, ready with my Canada map, and the others seated on the middle and back seat. We started the trip from where I live now, Kelowna. As long the trip, the lakes and mountains were "damn" beautiful! The water in the lakes were green and clear. Trip to Banff ... read more

The Canadian rockies crept up on us as we drove on from Medicine Hat. Then they began to tease us with their bearably visible ridges on the horizon every time we crested a hill. When we got to Calgary we were hungry for some mountains and couldn't wait to get here! First of all Canada charges everybody $10 per day just to be in Banff/ Glacier/ Jasper National parks! We payed for the first day, not knowing that there were ways around that exorbitant fee. We met a guy that had been living here in Banff for the past two years and learned that we could just avoid paying the fees completely by simply driving through the 'pass holders' line at the toll booths. We did so, and began to learn about all of the other ... read more

Geo: 51.1752, -115.573Everyone was up early again and were on the road before 0900, on our way -- after some GPS confusion -- farther west to the town of Banff. We formally entered Banff National Park a short way from the picture-postcard town center. As the shopping-inclined salivated at the sight of the wide boulevard full of souvenir shops, we passed through town and went directly to the Banff gondola, which brought us up more than 2,200 feet to the summit of Mt. Sulphur (~7,500 feet). Again we were blessed with cloud-free skies and uninterrupted views out across six separate mountain ranges, and the town below. After a picnic once we rode back down the gondola, we drove out toward Lake Minnewanka and Two Jack Lake. At Minnewanka (also known as Spirit Lake, as the natives ... read more