Canada’s Playground Province Revealed
How many times have you experienced a simply unforgettable moment on holiday? Watching the sun rise over a mountain range, viewing an iconic, world famous sight for the first time, or sharing your first ever helicopter flight with your closest loved one? One man who knows all about unforgettable travel is adventure traveller Dominic Gill who in 2006 embarked on a journey down two continents on a tandem bicycle, picking up strangers on the way. Three years after setting off, he’d travelled from Alaska to Argentina, made an award-winning documentary and written a book that explored the more human side of the journey. One of his favourite places in the world is the West Canadian province of Alberta, home to the Canadian Rockies. Three times the size of Britain and equal to the combined areas of France, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands. The province has a diversity of natural terrain – from the aforementioned Mountain ranges (home to the National Parks of Banff and Jasper), terrifyingly named badlands (home to the dinosaur bone beds), extensive plains, ancient glaciers, boreal forests and not to mention thousands of lakes and rivers. All of which offer adventure, activities and those unforgettable moments we all search for when on holiday — no matter our age or gender. If you’ve ever wanted to visit somewhere rich in areas of natural beauty and breath taking scenery, with hundreds of species of wildlife, an intriguing history of indigenous cultures, prehistoric …
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