Private
Guided Tours of Alberta
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7-Day Deluxe Tour By Vehicle
(Minimum
2 persons travel by car and train)
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This is a unique opportunity to see Alberta at your own pace including
incredible hikes and sightseeing, fine dining and first class resort hotels!!
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See the
Wildlife and Natural Beauty
of Jasper and Banff National Parks |
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Itinerary which will be
customized to your needs
Origin:
We arrange motor coach transportation or flight to the Edmonton
International Airport
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Day 1
Arrive
Edmonton, the most dynamic city in Alberta. We greet your at Edmonton
International Airport and transfer to your hotel. Depending on arrival times we
include a downtown city tour including one of the most impressive City Halls in
any city, Winspear Center and the Alberta Parliament Buildings. From
here, and time permitting, we head across the North Saskatchewan River to Whyte
Avenue where we stop into one of the many pubs or restaurants. Overnight
West Edmonton Mall Hotel (Fantasyland Hotel) or the majestic Hotel MacDonald
downtown.
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Day 2 We
have the full day to visit spectacular "West Edmonton Mall". We are dazzled
by the 800 stores, theaters, night clubs and restaurants in the World's largest shopping mall.
The multi-acre water park is fun, there is an NHL size hockey arena, submarine
rides and dolphin shows. For those who prefer, we can
introduce you to life on the prairies in the largest "Olden Days" park of its kind in
Canada. FORT EDMONTON Park is a great step back in time to the days of fur
trading and outposts of the Hudson's Bay trading company. You can even
step into the modern day Hudson's Bay store (a large department store) which is
the oldest corporation in North America! Enjoy our dinner theater this
evening!!
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Views from VIA Rail's Dome Car
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Vermilion Lakes near Banff
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Day 3
Depart
Edmonton for Jasper, Alberta on VIA RAIL TRAIN in the early afternoon. Roll
across the great Canadian prairies into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Overnight in the first of our world heritage
centers. Jasper,
Banff, Kootenay and Yoho Parks together make up a Unesco World Heritage sight.
Your dinner this evening at the L and W restaurant includes great dining, wine,
coffee and dessert. Overnight at the fabulous Jasper Park Lodge, nestled
directly between 2 lakes. 
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Day 4 A
highlight of the trip is hiking and exploring the trails that have made
JASPER
world famous. We tour
MALIGNE LAKE, one of the jewels of the Rocky mountains. Later we hike Pyramid
Lake and we can arrange bicycling and hiking through the nature trails in the
area. See hidden lakes and wildlife while riding through primary forest. We’ll
also see the lake where top-secret experiments were carried out in WWII. The
allies need a way to safely get men and equipment across the Atlantic Ocean and
an ingenious idea was hatched and tested in a lake right here. We’ll soak in
the hottest hotsprings (53 degrees C) in Canada at
MIETTE, in the Fiddle Valley.
There is no better way to "get in touch" with Alberta.
Of course there is time for souvenir shopping this evening.
What a great day! Overnight Jasper Park Lodge.
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The blue-white ice of Athabasca
Glacier is stunning!
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Day 5
Depart
south on the ICEFIELDS PARKWAY. Stare in awe at the rush of water at
ATHABASCA
FALLS. We ride a sno-coach onto
ATHABASCA GLACIER
on the massive Columbia Icefields, the largest ice-cap south
of the Arctic Circle (Sno-Coaches available May through early November).
What river (s) and oceans does this massive ice cube feed? How far does this
water flow? What affect does the nearby continental divide play in the path this
water will follow to the ocean? We’ll learn that the great glacier is receding
16 feet per year and is as tall as a hundred story building. Continue south to
BANFF, Alberta. We pass
PEYTO LAKE and
MORAINE LAKE. World famous Lake Louise shines with an incredible
aquamarine blue found only in the Canadian Rockies. Learn about rock flour and
the cause of this amazing phenomenon. Continue down the Bow Valley Parkway
before we overnight in a first class or standard lodge with
fireplace in Banff or Canmore.
Day 6
Those traveling in April and early May
can choose to ski for a day at Sunshine Ski resort. Depart to the southeast to
visit our next UNESCO world heritage sight "Head Smashed in Buffalo
Jump" near Fort Macleod.. See the spot where thundering herds of
Buffalo were stampeded to their deaths. An ingenious start to the world’s
original slaughter house! Natives then carved meat, hides and bone into the
essentials of life. Today the bones of thousands of years of buffalo bones are
piled 10 meters high!! Near the Crowsnest pass is the town of Frank. It is here
that a catastrophe occurred in 1903 involving 92 million tons of rock. Continue
to CARDSTON home of the Remington Alberta Carriage Center to see how Albertans
transported themselves a century or more ago. The Fay Wray fountain is dedicated
to Cardston’s most famous citizen-actress. Continue to another of Alberta’s
World heritage sights and the sight of the world’s first international peace
park. We visit Waterton Park and return late in the day to our hotel/lodge.
Day 7 After
breakfast our motor coach takes us east to "Writing on Stone Provincial
Park" to visit to see the continent’s largest collection of petroglyphs.
The latter part of the day will find us hiking the Hoodoo trails. Step into the
ROYAL TYRELL MUSEUM one
of North America’s great dinosaur museums and learn of the geology and
topography of our great province. Dinosaurs roamed this area millions of years
ago and then vanished forever from the face of the earth. Why? See the
equivalent of Tyranosaurus Rex (Albertosaurus) and the gigantic fossil of a fish
that had just swallowed another fish. This museum has the largest collection of
large full dinosaur skeletons in the world. Time permitting we visit the Reptile
World where we can wave at a real Alberta Rattlesnake? Can rattlesnakes really
live in Alberta? Transfer to EDMONTON or Calgary for another overnight or the flight home.
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Tour prices start at $5,950CAD
+tax
per
person.
Super Deluxe Including the Fairmont Resort Hotels start at $8,950CAD
+tax
Prices vary with season and availability. Minimum 2 persons. Contact us for
details.
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Tours include private car transfers,
train transfers, all meals and beverage at meals, sightseeing as indicated
including entrance fees, superior hotels, airport transfers, tour guide
throughout.
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