Monday, 9 September 2013

Jasper - Icefields Parkway & Maligne Lake

Everywhere in Canada boasts they have the biggest, oldest or longest.... so when we read that the Icefields Parkway was the worlds most beautiful road we kept our expectations in check. This time the  accolade fits!!! Words don't really do it justice so here are some pics (it was like this for 244km):


We took some time over lunch to stretch our legs with a 2 hour hike up to a glacier tongue, climbing back down you can see the road winding through the mountains:


Our first day in Jasper NP; we headed for Maligne Lake. After a relaxed walk we caught a boat to Spirit Island, a spiritually significant location for Canada's First Nations (Native Indians).



Surrounded by mountains dripping with glaciers and on a bed of turquoise blue water the tiny outcrop of trees really did have a magical quality to it!







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