Canadians, Help Needed!

[legoline]

For my Advanced Oral Skills class (where we practise giving presentatins) I was assigned with the subject "My ideal holiday". Now, I was thinking that I'd like to plan a trip to Canada since it's a place I'd actually love to go and haven't been yet which makes the presentation fun for me, too.

Since I only have limited time to give that presentation I was thinking that I'd narrow down the fictional travelling to British Columbia and Alberta.

I will look up sights and places worth going on Wikipedia and tourism websites, but I thought that since I have quite a few Canadians on my flist maybe you could help me out?

If I was to visit Alberta and British Columbia, where would you take me? What are must-sees? Which sights praised by tourism websites are highly overrated? Which places are never mentioned on those websites but worth checking out? How likely is it to see moose and bears if you go to Canada? :-p

I'd love it if you could help me :-) (And who knows, maybe I'll take that tour some day!)

Thank you in advance :-)

Comments

[jhayman.livejournal.com]

In Alberta:

Badlands, Dinosaur National Park, and Royal Tyrell Museum. Awe-inspiring. The vast emptiness and flatness, with the huge gouges of badlands where dinosaur bones are found.

Banff: overrated and overpriced. Climbing the local mountain is cool.

Lake Louise: beautiful beyond any imagining.

Lake Moraine: even better. Back of the old Canadian $20.

The Rockies in general -- incredible.

Columbian Ice Fields -- not to be missed.

BC: Vancouver Island is superb according to my parents and my son. We've never been there.

However we did go to Yoho National Park to see Takakkaw Falls. Spectacular. Natural beauty beyond belief.

So... our trip to Alberta and brief trip into BC was of a beauty I will never, not in this life, expect to surpass.

Bear: go in August, when the berries are ripe, and there will be bear warnings everywhere. Bear are DANGEROUS and hiking trails will be closed.

Moose mate in September. They flourish near lakes and cooler areas on the mountainsides, and across the whole of Canada. Not so dangerous unless threatened.

FWIW I've seen bear many times, but never a moose. Dave has seen moose twice, because he used to camp in a national park as a boy, and bear many times.

In BC and Alberta you can also expect to see elk, bighorn sheep, ground squirrels, magpies, and deer in the moutains. On the plains, mustangs, mormots and prairie dogs.

Good luck!

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much - I just had a look at the Badlands (via website of course) and it looks amazing. All of it looks amazing.

I need money :-)

Thanks a lot for the help!