Posted by Lisa | Posted in General Travel | Posted on 28-08-2009
Tags: Alaska Cruises Vanouver holidays, Arts and Culture, Calgary, Canada holidays, History of Canada
I have just come back from a holiday in Canada. I know that doesn’t sound technically correct. Well actually yes I did, sort of. Basically I wanted to rent out a car and drive from Vancouver to Winnipeg. We had three areas in mind across Canada that we had to visit. The one in the middle was Calgary.
In Vancouver is where this holiday started. Although i had read a lot about this area, it looked a bit different to how i had thought about it. This city is different to any other in the world. Surrounded by snow and green trees with little iceberg tops, this scenery is stunning. No matter what time of day or night, there is always something to do. What a way to start our Canada tours. As a further note i have arranged for Vancouver holidays for the rest of my staff as well.
Then there is a 450 mile drive to Calgary, we decided to just go for it so we could spend s good amount of time in there. We drove through Kamloops on the way, but didn’t have enough time to stop. I was absolutely shattered, we arrived in Calgary and just went to sleep for a while. Lucky for us something called the Calgary Stampede was going on. This is a massive event that they hold each year and is often referred to as the greatest outdoor show in the world. The best way to explain it is; this is a place for cowboys, then afterwards a nice circus event, where they have all kinds of dangerous acts. This is a holiday that anybody could enjoy.
We then embarked on our final 600 mile drive to Winnipeg. We had to go to the Millennium Library, one of the most famous in the world, filled with a huge array of books. After we had visited some of the sites like the Winnipeg art gallery and the Manitoba Museum, we knew it was time to leave. Neither me or my wife think that we had been on a better holiday before this. Alaska Cruises also do something like the fly drive, only all you have to do is relax.

