We ended our day in Banff by taking a stroll up to the ridiculous Fairmont Springs Hotel. This building can clearly be seen from the top of Sulphur Mountain and is the *only* place to stay if you are insanely rich and very pretentious. There was a statue out front of the original owner, with a quote from him engraved on its pedestal - "Since we cannot export the scenery, we must import the tourists!"
I think we were much better off at one of the hotels in town, even if we didn't have an external window...
More later in the week!
Sep. 24th, 2008
We stopped off on the way to the second peak at a very picturesque spot away from the wooden walkway, and sat for a while only feet from the side of the mountain, with no barrier. It made my human rather nervous, but the view was lovely.
Cascade Ponds 2
Sep. 24th, 2008 08:04 amWe took a wander round the lake and sat for a while beside a bubbling brook, watching people ride horses through the woods. It was a lovely spot.
Cascade Ponds 1
Sep. 24th, 2008 08:05 amWe took a wrong turn on the approach to Banff, and came acroos Cascade Springs - a perfect example of why my human loves Canada so much - there's scenery like this around every corner!
I took rather a lot of photos on our recent trip to Canada, so I shall split the account into three installments, so as not to overwhelm any of my readers with too many pictures at once.
We started our trip in Calgary, somewhere neither the humans nor I had been before. Taking a walk downtown, we met two gentlemen having a chat in the street...