Sorry for
not writing my blog this Sunday, but I was with three guys from class (Yannick,
Claudio and Martin) on a road trip to Banff and back. We had a long weekend, Monday
was a holiday and we took off school on Friday morning, so we decided to make a
road trip to Banff to enjoy the whole country side, like Martin would say. =)
Day 1 –
Vancouver to Refelstoke 649km
On day one we set off quite early to
the Vancouver Airport to pick up our rental car. After a felt hour of waiting
we finally got our car, a perfect sized Hyundai, and hit the road in direction
Revelstoke. On the way we’ve seen the typical landscape of Canada, trees all
over the place. But we’ve also crossed a kind of a desert with only small
plants and nearly no green stuff.
After about
seven hours of drive we finally reached Revelstoke. Revelstoke is a small
village with around 7000 inhabitants which lives from the tourism and the
railway.
our car
Trees and road
"desert"
a lake =)
Revelstoke
Day 2 –
Refelstoke to Banff 283km
The second
day started with rain, quelle surprise… (Attention that’s French) ;) But we’re
now since two month here and we don’t care anymore about a little rain. The
rout to day was not that far and we had time to stop in Lake Louise, a lake
called Louise near Banff. Unfortunately the lake was frozen and couldn’t see
the blue clear water. The next stop was at Johnston Canyon, a Canyon about 8000
years old. It was fascinating seeing the water running through the canyon and
hearing the force this water has.
We reached
Banff in the late afternoon and had to search our hostel. It was a small and
old hostel, just made for young party people like us =). In the evening we went
out to make party. It was incredibly funny.
Lake Louise
The crew
Johnston Canyon
Johnston Canyon - small waterfall
Banff
Day 3 –
Banff to Kelowna 483km
This day we
set off a little later than the two days before. The ride took us again nearly
seven hours and we reached Kelowna at about 6 o’clock in the evening. On the
way there we could see some pretty nice small farmer villages, lakes and for
sure a great many trees.
Kelowna
itself is a city at a lake with about 50’000 inhabitants and is known as a
party city for the youth of Vancouver. Unhappily we were all quite tired and we
went only for a short time out.
Three valley gap
Kelowna - from our balcony
Day 4 –
Kelowna to Vancouver 399km
Only a “short”
ride to deal with, we nearly overslept this morning. Before moving off we made
a short walk through downtown Kelowna to see how it looks like by daylight. On
the way to Vancouver we made several short stops to pee or to eat something. At
about 5:00 P.M we reached Vancouver airport a gain and returned our car at the
rental station. Our 1’800km road trip was finished =(
Kelowna
Kelowna lake side
Kelowna lake side
Canadian car tuning
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