From May 26 until June 27, 2013 we made a four weeks holiday to the beautiful country of Canada.
We landed in Calgara, Alberta, where we picked up our rental car. Before we entered the Rocky Mountains,
we spend a few days birding some places ín and the prairies east of Calgary. A whole other world
compared to that we have seen the rest of the trip.

We spend almost one week in the stunning Rocky Mountains,
visiting famous places like Banff National Park, Lake Louise, Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park.
Because of the relatively cold and late spring, snow was quite low and most of the lakes still frozen.
Upside of this, bears and other wildlife were still hanging around in the valleys
and we had some pretty good and memorable encounters with these!
After the Rockies, we travelled via Well's Gray Provincial Park (another very scenic park) into the Okanagan Valley.
Temperatures rises from around zero at the lowest in the Rockies to almost 30 degrees in just a few hours travelling.
From here we travelled through Manning Provincial Park towards Vancouver and Vancouver Island,
where we spend the last week.