Day 30 - Lake Louise - Banff Provential Park, Alberta

Lake Louise is absolutely beautiful! This picture doesn’t really do it justice but it’s the best one I took. The lake is very touristy with people from all over the world wanting to see it and hike it’s shores. At the end where I took the picture is the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise hotel. What a beautiful site to wake up to in the morning if you were staying there.

Day 30 - Columbia Icefields - Jasper Provential Park, Alberta

The Columbia Icefields are huge, covering over 200 square miles. It consists of a number of different glaciers. This picture shows one small glacier, called Athabasca. This is the most visited glacier in the world. To get some idea of it’s size, notice the people in the lower right walking to and on the glacier. Also notice the bus in the middle left. Remember, this is one of the smaller glaciers in the field. To see the balance of the Icefields you would have to go by helicopter.

Day 30 - Weeping Wall - Banff Provential Park, Alberta

We love waterfalls! This stop (also on the Icefields Parkway, gave us the opportunity to see many waterfalls at one time. It’s called “The Weeping Wall” because many of the waterfalls seem to come right out of the rocks. It was beautiful!

Day 30 - Icefields Parkway - Banff Provential Park, Alberta

They say the Icefields Parkway is often called the most scenic highway in the world. If they’re wrong, they can’t be wrong by much. The Icefields are about 125 miles from where we’re staying and we spent the day going their and back. The views along the way were nothing less than spectacular. I particularly liked the one shown here because of the water and the mountains together.