Alberta Canada Travel Guides:
Where to Go
Edmonton the provincial capital, owes its existence to the Klondike gold rush of 1898 and the oil boom of the sixties. The city is spacious, sprawling parks, it is primarily the North Saskatchewan River. Edmonton’s past is reflected in the Fort Edmonton Park, where there are replicas of those pioneering days. The highlight is the annual Klondiketage held in July in which the gold rush era is re-enacted. West Edmonton Mall has the reputation as the world’s largest shopping center with theaters, restaurants, night clubs, leisure facilities (including mini golf, swimming pool and ice rink), aquariums, museums and aviaries. There is also the biggest indoor amusement park in the world (Fantasyland) and Canada’s largest planetarium (Space Sciences Centre). There are several theaters and art galleries. On clear days you can overlook sq km from the Vista 33 of the Alberta Telephone Tower (radio tower), about 6500th The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village and the Elk Iceland National Park are just outside the city.
Calgary
Calgary is the second largest city in the province and is located on the west side of the great plains in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Here in 1988 hosted the Olympic Winter Games. The Glenbow Museum, various theaters and art galleries are located in the City. The Calgary Zoo and Prehistoric Park is one of the best zoos in North America. From Calgary Tower has a good view of the Rocky Mountains.
Outside the major cities:
The Banff National Park, Canada’s oldest national park is located 130 km west of Calgary in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Particularly notable is Lake Louise, a lake surrounded by the mountain ranges of the Rocky Mountains. North of Banff National Park, Jasper National Park. These two parks are a large recreation area with opportunities for hiking, canoeing, boating, rafting, fishing and skiing in winter. The small town of Jasper, a basin located in the middle, is an ideal starting point for trips to Pyramid Lake, the hot springs at Miette, Maligne Canyon and Maligne Lake. In the Ranger office opposite the station, you get maps and other information. Visitors also need a license for the Parks (1 day: 5 Can $, 4 days: Can $ 10, children under 6 years free). The highway Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) through both parks and offers the best access to the natural paths of the region with its beautiful lakes, forests and glaciers of the Columbia Icefields on which the McKinley Glacier and Columbia Glacier belong. A bus tour of the glacier is offered, it is also a hiking trail to the bottom of the glacier that can be tricky. the southwestern border of Alberta to the U.S. is at the Waterton Lakes National Park, together with the Glacier National Park in Montana’s first international peace park World forms. During a boat tour you can enjoy the magnificent views over the lakes.
The small town of Drumheller is located in a 120 m deep glacial valley where wind and water erosion over thousands of years, the surrounding Badlands (wastelands) and created millions of years of Earth’s geological and zoological have uncovered. Fossils, petrified wood and strange land formations are often found in this environment. Not far from the city begins the 47 km-long dinosaur trail, the Dinosaur Trail, with fossils of the prehistoric giants. The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, southwest of Drumheller, dinosaur are modeled in a natural environment, including fossils are on display. 250 km south of Calgary is in Lethbridge, the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump with an interesting documentation center, a well-preserved and used for thousands of buffalo hunting place of the Indians. From the cliffs you have a magnificent view over the prairies.
