Canadian Rockies and Pacific Coast

TRIP CODE - RK | CANADA

The Canadian Rockies serves up scenery on steroids. Travelling between rugged Vancouver Island and rodeo-city Calgary, you’ll be immersed in landscapes of alpine lakes, jagged ice-capped peaks and hot spring-studded parks brimming with wapiti, elk, moose and bear.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Banff National Park | Including picture-postcard Lake Louise, Banff’s scenery is hard to beat Icefields Parkway | This epic drive is packed full of glaciers, lakes, waterfalls and bears

Pacific Rim National Park | Hike in temperate rainforest on Vancouver Island

PRODUCT RATING: AU$6940

TRIP PACE: Moderate

ACCOMMODATION:

10 nights comfortable hotel

2 nights comfortable lodge

2 nights comfortable cabins

Optional single rooms available

TRANSPORT: Ferry | Minibus

MEALS:

No meals are included

WHY NOT TRY?

Hiking in the awe-inspiring Rockies, walking through some of the most spectacular landscapes on Earth.

Trip code: WRK

DAYS 1–2: Join trip in Calgary. Head to Canmore, in the Rockies.

DAY 3: Walk past tall pines and emerald lakes in Banff National Park. Choose to soak in hot springs.

DAY 4: Visit world-famous Lake Louise –one of Canada’s most photographed natural features.

DAY 5: Drive the epic Icefields Parkway to Jasper. Discover creaking glaciers and immense mountains, and spot bear en route.

DAY 6: Spend a full day in Jasper National Park. Explore Maligne Canyon and look out for bear, elk and moose.

DAY 7: Drive via Spahats Falls and Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains, to Clearwater.

DAY 8: Hire a canoe in Wells Gray Provincial Park, or spot wildlife on the trails. Visit the massive Helmcken Falls.

DAYS 9–10: Journey to the pretty alpine village of Whistler. Take a cable car ride or go hiking on mountain trails.

DAY 11: Take a ferry to Vancouver Island and drive to the Pacific Rim National Park’s wild rainforests.

DAY 12: Free day on Vancouver Island for optional sea kayaking, whale watching or black bear spotting.

DAY 13: Spend a day in coastal Victoria, exploring British Columbia’s provincial capital.

DAYS 14–15: Walking tour of Vancouver, including Stanley Park. Trip ends in Vancouver.