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Facteur Cheval’s Palais Ideal

January 4, 2023 Leave a Comment

Hauterives in southeast France (30 miles south of Lyon) would not normally be a draw for us except for one justly famed site: the extraordinary labor of love and serendipity of a 19th-century postman, Ferdinand Cheval (nicknamed Facteur Cheval), who had a dream and the persistence to see it through. And what a site …

Filed Under: Adventures, Art, France, Lyon, Museums, Sightseeing Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, Facteur Cheval, Facteur Cheval’s Palais Ideal, Ferdinand Cheval, Ideal Palace, Palais ideal

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

Niagara Falls

September 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

Niagara Falls

One might think that Niagara Falls was formed about 50,000 years ago when Lake Erie and several other Great Lakes were formed from melting glacial ice. However, Niagara Falls is much younger. It was created when Lake Erie overflowed. The original falls, however, were located about seven miles north of their current location. They have […]

Filed Under: Adventures, Canada, Destinations, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, New York, Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Sightseeing, United States Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Cave of the Winds, Frederick Law Olmsted, Gorge Trail, Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls, Niagara Power Vista, Old Fort Niagara, Underground Railroad Heritage Center

Brown Bears Hunting Salmon at Brooks Falls Alaska

January 18, 2023 Leave a Comment

It’s Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park. The brown bears are matched against each other in a “march madness” style competition and online visitors can vote on who is ultimately crowned the Fat Bear Week Champion. In honor of Fat Bear Week, we are reposting our July 2011 blog of when we spent hours […]

Filed Under: Adventures, Alaska, Katmai Peninsula, Kenai Peninsula, Nature & Hiking Tagged With: bear jam, bears, Brooks Lodge, brown bears, Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

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