Day 1 - VICTORIA (D) Welcome to beautiful Victoria! Dinner and overnight.
Day 2 - VICTORIA-VANCOUVER (B,D) Breakfast at the hotel. Depart for Victoria city centre with time to browse the shops around the pretty harbour and enjoy High Tea on your own. Arrive at the world famous Butchart Gardens, a 130 acre floral extravaganza carved out of an old limestone quarry. Time to browse on your own and enjoy the beautiful gardens. Depart for Swartz Bay for ferry for return trip to Vancouver. Dinner and overnight in Vancouver.
Day 3 - VANCOUVER (B,D) Breakfast at hotel. This morning, a city tour of beautiful Vancouver including Stanley Park, False Creek, Yaletown, Gastown, Granville Island and English Bay. Lunch on own. Afternoon free to relax and get used to time change. Depart for dinner in Vancouver.
Day 4 - VANCOUVER - KELOWNA (B,L) Breakfast at the hotel. This morning we travel through the Fraser Valley with its lush fruit orchards, incredible weather and spectacular scenery.
Visit to dairy and cash crop farm. Option to see Minter Gardens if time permits. Lunch enroute
Depart for Kelowna, dinner on own, check-in and overnight at your hotel.
Day 5 - KELOWNA (B,D) Leisurely breakfast at the hotel. Morning free to relax; shop and explore on your own, in this picturesque town. Lunch on own. Depart the hotel for a tour. Learn how they use old Asian technology to grow “the perfect apple!” Dinner. Return to hotel for overnight.
Day 6 - KELOWNA-ROCKY MOUNTAINS (B, D) Breakfast at the hotel. Continue traveling northward through the Okanagan Valley towards
Revelstoke. Lunch stop (on own) in Revelstoke. Continue on through Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park and through Rogers Pass, which has some of the most scenic highway views in the world! Make a stop at the Interpretive Centre, which tells the stories of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Trans-Canada Highway and the route through the Rogers Pass. View the Spiral Tunnels, built to overcome North America’s steepest railway grade. Arrival for dinner and overnight as we enter the Rocky Mountain Parks.
Day 7 - YOHO-JASPER-BANFF (B) Breakfast at the hotel. This morning, we continue on to the Columbia Icefields Parkway. Enjoy miles of captivating scenery and incredible wildlife as we head for Jasper National Park. Pass stunning vistas of alpine meadows, waterfalls and glacier masses. Highlight of the day…. a memorable ride on the 1,000 foot thick Columbia Icefield aboard a Sno Coach at Athabasca Glacier! Depart for stunning Lake Louise. Lunch on own at Lake Louise
Time to explore Lake Louise on your own or perhaps visit one of the tea houses in the village. Dinner on own.
Day 8 - BANFF (B,D) Depart for Banff. Free time to enjoy the shops and beautiful sights of A thrilling gondola ride to the top of Sulphur Mountain for aerial views of the Rockies. Lunch on own atop the mountain. Tour of the area including Bow Falls, Tunnel Mountain and Mount Norquay. Return to hotel to relax. Dinner at one of Canmore’s many restaurants, then overnight.
Day 9 - BANFF (B,D) Breakfast at leisure at the hotel. Sleep in this morning to enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the hotel and a relaxing morning exploring mountain village of Canmore on your own. Return to hotel to freshen up. Depart for a special dinner show, “Oh Canada, eh?!” – a humourous and informative look at this magnificent country and its people. Return to hotel for overnight.
Day 10 - BANFF-CALGARY (B, D) Breakfast at the hotel. Depart Canmore, heading east towards Calgary. Visit sheep or cattle ranch. Continue on to Calgary with a city tour on the way to our hotel. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 11 - CALGARY (B,D) Breakfast at the hotel. Free time this morning to explore Calgary and catch a little “stampede fever”. Lunch. Visit to Dinosaur Museum. Farewell dinner
Day 12 - CALGARY (B) Breakfast at hotel; depart for airport for flight. |