The Drive To Maligne Lake Is A Worthwhile Trip Maligne Lake is located 48 km's south from the town of Jasper. The drive to the lake follows along the Maligne Range glacial valley. It offers beautiful scenery as well as many opportunities for spotting wildlife. Some animals to keep your eye out for are grizzly and black bear, bighorn sheep, white-tail deer, elk, moose and mountain goat. The drive along Maligne Lake road is worth taking in itself. You may want to take a picnic lunch and stop along the way to eat it or wait until you get to the lake. There is a cafeteria style restaurant … [Read more...]
Banff Springs Hotel Weekend Getaway
We have always loved the Banff Springs Hotel. We have never stayed at it before, it would be well out of our budget. Now that we are employed by Fairmont we took the opportunity to use our employee discount for a weekend away. The Banff Springs is a former Canadian Pacific Railway hotel. It was first opened to the public in 1888. … [Read more...]
Ice Magic Festival
The Ice Magic Festival is held in January at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Teams of professional carvers come from around the world to participate in the competition. Some of them have creative names, like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre team. … [Read more...]
Living In Lake Louise
A Unique Place To Live For Many Reasons Lake Louise is the highest community in Canada. The village sits at an elevation of 1540 meters or 5052 feet and the lake where we live is at 1731 meters or 5680 feet. Considering we moved from sea level on Vancouver Island, this had a profound effect on us when we first arrived. … [Read more...]
The Moving Van Is Loaded Up, Lake Louise Here We Come!
Farewell Nanaimo, Lake Louise Here We Come As usual we make major life changes in an instant and have little time to make it happen. We had less than a month to pack everything we own and sell off what we didn't want to move with us. … [Read more...]
Our Next Adventure
Welcome To Our New Home! Jack has been offered a position to be the painter for the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. We were playing around one night on the internet and came across the posting for the job. He decided to make an inquiry about it and everything quickly progressed from there. … [Read more...]
Byodo-In Buddhist Temple
Byodo-In Temple Information And Location The Byodo-In Temple is an exact scale replica of a 900 year old Fuji temple in Japan. It was built in the 1960's to commemorate the first Japanese immigrants that arrived in Hawaii. The entire temple was built with out the use of nails. We enjoyed walking around the grounds surrounding the temple. They were very tranquil and picturesque. There are ponds full of huge Koi Fish. We noticed a few cats sitting around the water edge captivated by them. It was as if they were almost in a trance like state staring at them. Inside the temple is a Buddha … [Read more...]
Honolulu’s Chinatown, Iolani Palace And Aloha Tower
Once you get to this section of Honolulu there are many attractions with in walking distance of each other. You can easily spend half a day or longer depending on what you would like to see in the area. Exploring Downtown Honolulu Website Chinatown Honolulu's Chinatown dates back to the 1800's. Some of the original architecture is still standing today. It's well worth spending a few hours checking out the area. There are many places to eat truly authentic Chinese Food. The open air market is full of exotic fruits and vegetables, and live fish to buy fresh out of the tank. The busy … [Read more...]
Our In Inexpensive Waikiki Hotel and Car Rental
We were ending our stay in Hawaii with a week on the island of Oahu. We used our airmiles to book a stay at the Aqua Palms & Spa Hotel. There are many Aqua hotels in in the Waikiki area, we like the particular location of this one. It was at the far end of the Waikiki area, across the street from the Hilton Hawaiian Village. This location is out of the main Waikiki hustle and bustle. It is much quieter, yet only blocks away from the beach, main attractions and restaurants in the area. The staff at the hotel were very friendly and extremely helpful in giving us the information we needed … [Read more...]
Volcano National Park
We decided to do another day trip to the other side of the island to explore the Volcano National park. Even though we had flown over it by helicopter, we thought it would be worth visiting on foot. This would be our fourth visit to the the windward side of the island and unfortunately the fourth time we would experience rain there. We passed by vast areas of old and newer lava flows and got some really nice views of the coast along the way. We took the southern route along highway 11 to get to the park. Punalu'u Black Sand Beach Our first stop en route was at Punalu'u black sand beach. … [Read more...]
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