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Exploring Northwest US and Canada: Week 1, Day 6, Banff

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February 23rd 2018
7/16 On our included Bus Tour of Banff our guide took us up Tunnel Mountain Drive through Banff National Park where we began to explore its many wonders. We saw the Banff version of hoodoos, formations of dissolving limestone formed 20,000 years ago, small (by comparison to those in Utah) but our view was of only three humps in the Bow River Valley ... read more

North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff National Park

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A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more