Banff - 2002

With an around the world air ticket, we flew out of Melbourne on the 10th of May to Vancouver in Western Canada.
 Next flight was to Calgary then we flew over the North Pole to Frankfurt
 in Germany where we went on a Trafalgar Highlights of New Europe tour.
(Frankfurt to Berlin, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, The Czech Republic and Rothenburg before returning to Frankfurt.)
After this tour we flew to Istanbul in Turkey and went on a Trafalgar tour of Turkey.
Then to Singapore via Dubai and back to Melbourne after 54 days.

We drove from Drumheller to Banff.

   

 

 

 

Mt. Norquay
 

 



Mule deer
 

Johnston Canyon near Banff
 

We had a pleasant walk visiting 2 waterfalls. Parts of the waterfalls and river were still frozen.
We saw a couple of chipmunks along the way.

 

 

   

  

 

     

 

   

 

     

 

   

Banff
 

 

  

 

 



Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.
As you can see the lake was frozen over. We saw (and heard) some avalanches while we were here. They sounded like overhead jets.
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Yoho National Park near Banff.
In order for trains to climb the Canadian Rockies, engineers built a spiral tunnel inside a mountain.


 

 

Emerald Lake
  

   

 

The Burgess Shale - Yoho National Park near Banff.

On this snow covered ridge a large number of Pre-Cambrian fossils have been found. 
The area is known as The Burgess Shale and is one of the world's most important fossil sites
and continues to play a pivotal role in the understanding of the emergence of early animal life.

 

 





Kicking Horse Natural Bridge
   

 

Banff Springs Hotel
    

        

   

   

Chipmunks


    



Lake Minnewanka near Banff
    

    

Johnson Lake
   

 



We travelled up The Icefields Parkway to Jasper.
We returned to Calgary and flew over the North Pole to Frankfurt in Germany to continue our around-the-world trip.
Unfortunately our cameras were stolen from our hotel room in Calgary and so our Jasper and Calgary photos were lost.