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Exploring Louisiana’s Bayou and Cajun Country

March 27, 2023 Leave a Comment

A day’s drive from New Orleans takes you into some of Louisiana bayous and into the heart of Cajun country.  We have explored Southern Louisiana’s bayou and plantation country before. This time we skipped the plantations to explore some new areas. Avery Island Route 90 is the de facto “bayou highway”. We drove from Houma […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Dining, Hiking, Lafayette, Museums, Nature & Hiking, Saint Martinville, Sightseeing Tagged With: Acadians, ActiveTravelExperiences, Avery Island, Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, live oak, McIlhenny, tabasco, Vermilionville

What To See In Arles France

November 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

Arles Obelisque

Arles France is a coastal city in southern France. It was initially settled in 800 BC and became an important trading post. The Romans captured it in 123 BC and grew it into one of the empire’s largest and most important colonies. By 395 AD it had a population of over 75,000 and became the […]

Filed Under: Arles, Art, Beaches & Coasts, Cities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Hiking, Museums, Nature & Hiking, Restaurants, Sightseeing Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, Barbegal Aqueduct and Mill, Camargue, Constantine Baths, Cryptoportiques de Arles, es Arenes, Frank Gehry, Les Alyscamps, The Amphitheater, Thermes de Constantin, Vincent Van Gogh

Parc Nationale des Calanques

November 11, 2022 Leave a Comment

Parc Nationale des Calanques is located along the Mediterranean Sea coast between Cassis and Marseilles France. It is a short trip by land from either city and is well worth a visit. You can also take a cruise from either city that takes you along the Calanques coast with breathtaking views. If you have the […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Featured-City, France, Hiking, Marseilles, Nature & Hiking Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences

Day-Trip to Banff National Park From Lake Louise

October 19, 2022 Leave a Comment

Banff National Park Banff National Park, Canada’s first national park, was created in 1885. Located in the Canadian Rockies, the park is a land of dramatic craggy, snow-capped mountains, heavily forested valleys, aqua-colored lakes, and more than 100 glaciers. Traversed by the scenic Bow Valley Parkway (or the faster Trans-Canada Highway), the valley provides stunning […]

Filed Under: Adventures, Alberta, Banff, Canada, Featured-City, Hiking, Lake Louise, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, Athabasca Glacier, Banff national Park, Bow Valley, Bow Valley Parkway, Castle Lookout, Columbia Icefield Icefields Parkway, Johnson Canyon, Morant's Curve, Pekto Lake, Rocky Mountaineer, Saskatcheqan River Crossing, Wilcox Pass

Rocky Mountaineer: The Value of Gold-Leaf Service

November 12, 2022 Leave a Comment

We rarely take organized tours of areas. Instead we prefer to plan our own itinerary and timing. But once in a while, we sign up to be taken care of. What better place than in the Canadian Rocky Mountains? Instead of one of us driving or navigating, we could take a train and both relax […]

Filed Under: Adventures, Banff, Destinations, Featured-City, Highlighted Activity, Kamloops, Mountains, Nature & Hiking, Sightseeing, Vancouver Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, Rocky Mountaineer, Rocky Mountains

What to do in Banff

October 9, 2022 Leave a Comment

Banff in Alberta Canada is a “tourist town”. But we use the term in a good way even though it was originally created as a tourist town. In 1888, the Canadian Pacific Railway built the Banff Springs Hotel to attract wealthy tourists to the area’s scenery and wildlife. Today Banff is the largest town in […]

Filed Under: Adventures, Banff, Dining, Hiking, Mountains, Nature & Hiking, Restaurants Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, Bison Restaurant, Cascae of Time Gardens, Cascase of Times Gardens, Cave and Basin National Historic Site, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Hoodo Lookout, La Terrazzo, Maple Leaf, Park Distillery, Stony Lookout, Tunnel Mountain Summit, Vermillion Lakes, Waldhaus Restaurant

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