North America

Day 1 : Arrive Calgary

Welcome to Canada!  A transfer is  included upon arrival from the airport to your hotel.  Meet your Tauck Director and fellow travellers at a Wild West welcome reception and dinner featuring cowboy stunts and Calgary fiddlers!  

Day 2 : Waterton Lakes & Glacier National Park

Travel south today from Calgary through the Peigan Reserve, to Waterton Lakes National Park, then across the U.S. Canada border into Montana. Visit the prehistoric Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, one of many such sites used by North American aboriginal peoples to hunt buffalo.  Continue on to Glacier National Park; its isolated location, which means fewer visitors during the brief summer season, makes it a haven for some of the world’s endangered species. Your rustic accommodations at the Many Glacier Hotel, a National Historic Landmark built in 1915 on the shores of an alpine lake.

Day 3 : 'Going to the Sun' Road

Experience the grandeur of the Glacier National Park by land and water today. A private morning cruise on alpine lakes reveals why this region of glacier-carved peaks, lakes and valleys has been called the Switzerland of North America, and was established as a national park in 1910. Weather permitting, drive along Going-to-the-Sun Road through the park's wild interior aboard the park's restored 1930's vintage touring buses. Cross the Continental divide en route to Lake McDonald. Your Swiss chalet-style lodge sits on the eastern shore of the lake.

Day 4 : Kootenay National Park

Journey through Canada’s timberlands to Kootenay National Park, established in 1920 to preserve a great diversity of western Canadian landscapes ranging from glacial mountains along the Continental Divide to the dry grasslands and cactus of the Rocky Mountain Trench. As you traverse the park, view the bright red walls of Sinclair Canyon, a long, narrow chasm hewn through a series of cliffs and Radium Hot Springs, whose thermally heated waters drew early visitors to this area. Continue on to lovely Lake Louise for an overnight in a lake-view room at your Fairmont resort, nestled on the lake’s wooded shores.

Day 5 : Moraine Lake excursion & Lake Louise at leisure

Discover the beauty of Moraine Lake today with our naturalist guide. One of the most photgraphed spots in Canada, this lake is situated in the valley of Ten Peaks. In the afternoon you can enjoy more of the area at Fairmont Château Lake Louise.

Day 6 : Jasper National Park

Today, drive along the spectacular Icefields Parkway as you make your way to Jasper National Park. Then put what you've learned into your pictures as you encounter jaw-dropping views of mountains, waterfalls, glaciers, and snowfields around every turn; watch for bears, elk, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats, especially in the spring and fall. Arrive at your lodge for a two-night stay in the heart of Jasper National Park.

Day 7 : Explore Jasper National Park

Spend the entire day as you wish enjoying an array of optional diversions at The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge (many are available at an additional cost) including golfing, fishing, trail riding and rafting. A National Parks presentation and a wine and cheese reception with a local artist at the Mountain Galleries rounds out this exciting day.

Day 8 : Icefields Parkway / Banff National Park

Follow the Icefields Parkway to Banff National Park, stopping for yet another highlight of your Canadian Rockies experience a ride aboard a specially designed Ice Explorer along the surface of the Athabasca Glacier; part of the Columbia Icefield. Continue on to The Fairmont Banff Springs for a memorable two-night stay. One of western Canada’s first great railway hotels, this grand resort, styled after a Scottish baronial castle, first opened in 1888 as one of the world’s most luxurious mountain getaways.

Day 9 : Banff as you please

Spend the day as you wish in one of the most beautiful  wilderness resorts in Canada. Optional activities include golf, tennis, hiking, fishing, river rafting, horseback riding or pampering treatments in the property’s full-service Willow Stream Spa (additional cost may apply). There’s a lot to do in the chic alpine village of Banff itself, from museums to people-watching.  Please join us for a farewell dinner tonight.

Day 10 : Journey Home

Return to Calgary Airport.

Why not extend your tour and head over to Vancouver for a few days to explore the city and the rest of British Columbia?

Call the travel experts at Bon Voyage to discuss your Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park adventure.