Western Canada Explorer - Coach

Arrive in Vancouver International Airport, a vehicle from the car rental agency will pick you up, and you proceed to the hotel. In the evening, visit the FlyOver Canada for a 4D show (the tickets are included in the package). Here you get to experience flight ride technology. Chairlift-style seats are elevated before a large spherical screen creating an illusion of flying over the landscapes.

You stay overnight in a hotel in Vancouver.

After breakfast, you proceed on a Vancouver City Tour where you explore and visit important waterfront landmarks like the Canada Place, Robson Street (well-known for shopping), the English Bay, Stanley Park, Granville Island, Chinatown and Gastown. Take the glass elevator to get a 360-degree view of the Vancouver city from the Vancouver Lookout observation deck on the Harbour Centre Tower.

You stay overnight in a hotel in Vancouver.

After breakfast, you check-out and proceed on a full day tour of Victoria City to the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal to board the 90 Minute Ferry Ride on BC Ferries through the Gulf Islands. You sail across the Strait of Georgia, to reach Swartz Bay. You disembark and drive to the Butchart Gardens. One of Victoria’s most celebrated sites and rated amongst the most beautiful gardens in the world. (Admission tickets are covered in the package), Later, make your way to Victoria’s Inner Harbour, and check out the maritime heritage and colonial charm. You also get to explore the world-famous Fairmont Empress Hotel, British Import Ships, and Parliament Buildings here.

You return to Vancouver by the ferry and overnight in a hotel in Vancouver.

After breakfast, checkout and keep the luggage in the lobby. You spend the morning at leisure. Later, your journey through Western Canada begins with an afternoon departure from the biggest city in British Columbia – Vancouver. Following the Fraser River out of the city through the lush river delta and up the towering peaks of the Cascade Mountains, you take a short rest in the town of Hope. After the rest stop, continue up into the sub-alpine of the Cascades until our high point of the day, the Coquihalla Summit. Continue into the arid BC interior, watching the lush forests turn to desert where the tour reaches Kamloops. Check in at the hotel for the night at the historic railway era Plaza Hotel, right in the heart of downtown Kamloops.

You stay overnight in Kamloops.

Today, in the afternoon a stop is made at the Yoho National Park to marvel at National Historic sites of the Spiral Tunnels – the solution to safe rail travel through the steep Kicking Horse Pass. We then continue on to the iconic Banff National Park where we visit Lake Louise in the late afternoon. You get enough time to take a few pictures amidst glacier capped peaks by the turquoise waters lakeshore before ending your journey in Lake Louise.

On arrival, you check in at the hotel. You stay overnight in Lake Louise.

After breakfast, you check-out and drive to Jasper via the Icefields Parkway - Canada’s most scenic mountain roadway, a route to glaciers, lakes, and waterfalls. Arrive at the Columbia Icefields Discovery Center. Here, you take the Ice Explorer Ride which takes you up the Athabasca Glacier. Later, take a coach from the Discovery Center to the Glacier Skywalk, it is a glass-floored observation platform over the Sunwapta Valley, and you get an unobstructed view of the surrounding glaciers. Continue along the Parkway to the Crowfoot Glacier, the Peyto Lake and Bow Lake enroute to Jasper.

You stay overnight in a hotel in Jasper.

After breakfast, you proceed on an Explore Jasper Tour. You can leisurely spend the day to experience the uniquely beautiful landscape of the Jasper National Park where history is set amid some of the most rugged peaks in the Rockies. You explore the Jasper town-site, and visit places like the Athabasca Viewpoint, the Maligne Canyon, and the Maligne Lake. At Maligne Canyon, you stroll along 50 meter walls and learn about its unique underground water system.

Later, enjoy a Maligne Lake Boat Cruise (optional). And we suggest a visit to the Miette Hot Springs, and you should go whitewater rafting, take the Jasper Skytram, and go Sky Gazing and much more.

You stay overnight in a hotel in Jasper.

After breakfast, checkout and transfer to the resort town of Banff. Built in 1940, the famous Icefields Parkway links Jasper and the Banff National Parks along one of Canada's highest and picturesque mountain roadways.

On arrival, you check in at the hotel and stay overnight in Banff.

After breakfast, proceed on an Explore Banff Tour. The resort town of Banff, set amongst the towering mountains of Rundle, Tunnel, Cascade and Norquay. Explore Bow Falls, Tunnel Mountain Drive, Surprise Corner, Hoodoos, Two Jack Viewpoint, and Lake Minnewanka Boat Cruise (optional) for one hour wherein you get to witness the wildlife and vegetation and visit the Devil’s gap at the foothills of the Rockies. A gentle ride on the Banff Gondola takes you to the summit of the Sulphur Mountain for a 360 degree panoramic view of the Bow Valley. You get the afternoon to spend in leisure and you can explore the resort town of Banff.

You stay overnight in a hotel in Banff.