After one night in the lonely forest of Banff, we packed our suitcases again and started traveling to Lake Louise. I nearly got lost with my suitcase, but finally Andi decided to take me with him. Lake Louise turned out to be very nice, having a beautiful water color and a nice castle, the Fairmont Chateau. To escape the huge mass of tourists we decided to rent a canoe and paddle to the other side of the Lake. As the boathouse belongs to the Fairmont Chateau, we had to pay 50 bucks for our fun. Please visit our Banff Photo Album to see more of this beautiful place.
However, after that we felt like real guests of the hotel, so we also took a look inside. Not just impressing from the outside, it turned out to be elegant inside as well.
Around lunch time, we traveled to the Icefields Parkway, which is the only road from Banff to Jasper. Passing by some more impressive lakes, we decided to stay a little at Bow Lake and have lunch near the water. When we were just sitting there in the silence, a bus of Chinese guys entered the area. Suddenly the place was crowded and everyone was taking pictures. See the picture beside and please note the Chinese woman/girl posing as a swan, which is very typical for them. As you can guess, we left immediately, heading forward to the famous Peyto Lake. It’s got a wonderful color that changes with the season and is influenced by minerals and bacteria.
The road took us on to Sunwapta Crossing and the glacier region, when the weather suddenly turned bad. However, being tough, we decided to hike to Panther Falls using a very narrow trail. As this is a bear area, we started to sing and whistle to attract attention and had so much fun, that we didn’t realized at first, that we were already standing in front of the falls.
The next stop was the famous Athabasca Glacier, which just looked ugly in the rain and so we moved on to the Campground. Funny enough, this Mountain Campground had a self-registration and we had to throw the money into a box. That also means that we had to look for a free spot driving off-road with our car. But we found a nice guy (I called him Jumanji) travelling on his bike, non-smelling dump toilets and even German speaking people.
Our day ended with a very romantic self-prepared dinner with a spotlight in the car. We love bears :-) !
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