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 flew from Vancouver to Calgary and hired a car (a Pontiac
Sunfire "Ponty") from Calgary
airport for a week.
Drumheller is about 150 km NW of Calgary.
"The Canadian Badlands" Thousands of years of wind, glacier and water erosion have
created the captivating badlands,
which reveal millions of years of the
earth's animal and geological history.
Our comfortable B&B at Drumheller.
The Little Church.
It seats
6 at a time in individual pews.
Some scenes of the Red Deer River area.
Weird, mushroom-like, sandstone columns carved by nature that have withstood centuries of wind, rain and erosion.
They get their name from natives who believed that the Hoodoos were petrified giants that came alive at night,
and hurled rocks at invaders.
Our B&B was near these. Our hostess, Peggy told us that they were much more extensive in her youth.
Dinosaur
Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada.
At this world heritage site a large number of dinosaur remains have
been uncovered.
We
went on an excellent bus tour around part of the park.
There were some dinosaur remains in situ. We were shown some dinousaur
teeth.
The Tyrrell Museum of
Palaeontology at Drumheller, Canada.
The best museum that Margaret has ever been to.
They had over 40 complete dinosaur skeletons with excellent
presentation and descriptions of the displayed items.
