Calgary: An area of many diversities from farm lands to canyons and then to glaciers and high mountain visages.
One Morning I left Calgary and headed north toward the Canadian Badlands Trail on Highway 2 to Crossfield and then veered east on Highway and stopped at Horseshoe Canyon, Canada’s mini- Grand Canyon — a picturesque pocket of Badlands amidst the prairies to Drumheller where the Dinosaur Trail began. As I traveled along the banks of the Red Deer River, I saw the world’s largest fibreglass Tyrannosaurus Rex, where 106 stairs lead you straight into the beast’s actual mouth. Heading out on the Dinosaur Trail along the Red Deer River Valley, The road climbed steeply out of the valley onto the prairie benchland. I took the first access road to view the Horsethief Canyon Lookout .from where there are spectacular views of the Badlands and the multicoloured walls of the canyons. At the trail’s halfway point is the crossing of the Red Deer River on the Bleriot Ferry, one of the few remaining cable ferries in Alberta. I took the ferry and headed back for more panoramic views across the Badlands and the lush valley floor below. As the day waned we headed back to Calgary and the hotel before night fall,
The next day we traveled along the icefield parkway which is considered one of the most scenic mountain routes on Earth. we saw dramatic mountain vistas, huge walls of ice, beautiful lakes, and spectacular waterfalls we began in the picturesque village of Lake Louise. Located in Bow village Four km above the village is the lake itself, we came the majestic Victoria Glacier. Leaving Lake Louise, we first visited Moraine Lake. which is Surrounded by a panorama of 10 glaciated summits, the Wenkchemna Peaks, Moraine Lake is found at the base of the Continental Divide, the geographic point where all waters flow either west to the Pacific Ocean or east to the Atlantic Ocean.
From Lake Louise, we head ed north along the snow-capped Icefields Parkway toward Jasper National Park.and took a trip up into the ice fields, Brr. It was cold, -20degrees C.