TOTEM CIRCLE - 2010

13 days from Vancouver to Vancouver (8380)

Vacation Overview

Experience British Columbia and Alberta on this fun-filled Canadian vacation. Start your trip in Vancouver with a city sightseeing tour before taking a ferry to Vancouver Island, where you make stops in Victoria, Chemainus, and Port Hardy. Your tour in Victoria includes world-famous Butchart Gardens, a floral extravagance with 55 acres. Cruise one of the world’s most beautiful ocean voyages on the Inside Passage to Prince Rupert. The breathtaking scenery includes towering mountains, roaring waterfalls, endless islands, and virgin rainforest. Watch for sea lions, eagles, and porpoises. In Prince Rupert, board Canada’s VIA Rail®’s Skeena train to Prince George. On this train journey, watch for soaring bald eagles, black bears, moose, and majestic mountains.

Leave British Columbia and cross the border into Alberta, where you overnight in both Jasper National Park and Banff National Park. Other fabulous highlights on this vacation include Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies; Columbia Icefield, where you take a thrilling Ice Explorer ride in an all-terrain vehicle on ice measuring 1,200 feet (365 meters); Lake Louise; and Yoho National Park, one of Canada’s most popular recreational areas. Your vacation ends back in Vancouver. To see spectacular scenery by land, train, and boat, this vacation offers it all!

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Things to see on your vacation: View Vacation Photo Slideshow
  • Experience the Northern Lights as viewed from Alberta
  • The rushing waters in Yoho National Park
  • Visit Butchart Gardens with over 50 acres of floral extravagance
  • The floral displays in the Butchart Gardens
  • Yoho National Park, established in 1886
  • Jasper National Park - located in Alberta, Canada
  • Stanley Park features numerous unique Totem poles
  • Vancouver’s skyline and harbour
  • The Butchart Gardens in British Columbia, Canada
  • Ice Explorer
  • Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks
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