When we arrived Calgary we were received cordially with bunches of flowers at the airport by long-seen and not-so-long-seen relatives. The western part of Canada fascinated us. East-Canada was captivating as well but the last one-third part of our journey put 
a charm on us for life, mainly the second day of our stay in Alberta, when we visited Banff and Lake Louise. This was how I imagined Canada. It was picturesque. I need to write a lot because I’d like to enclose many photos. The mountains fascinated us even from the distance on our way to the National Park of Canada. Our first stop was the town of Canmore, the Bow River runs through it. I liked t
he bungalows by the riverbank. The next town is Banff. Banff National Park is the birthplace of Canada’s national park system, the 3rd oldest in the world, established in 1885 and named for Banffshire, Scotland – birthplace of two of the original Canadian Pacific Railway directors, built through Banff in 1883. There are more than 1000 glaciers in the park, (its size is 6641 square kms). The slogan is: take only photographs, leave only footprints. We started our t
rip at a lovely famous waterfall. Reach out and touch the sky… The next stop was the Gondola. It’s almost like „libegő” in Hungary. Fully-enclosed, 4-passenger gondola cabins whisk you to the top in comfort and safety, it’s a quite ride. The upper terminal elevation is 7486 feet (2281 metres) above sea level, even birds fly below you. More mountains in a moment than mo
st see in a lifetime. We had lunch at the upper terminal where we were witness breathtaking views in every directions. The roof-top observation deck provided an unobstructed 360° view. Chipmunks and Whisky Jack were real shows. Whisky Jack is a bird. If you raise your palm with a little piece of bread on it, it comes, touches your hand, receives the food and flies away. We visited the Cave and Basin National Hi
storic Site for the full story of the National Park. For more than 10 000 years, aboriginal people travelled through the Bow Valley, camping and hunting in the mountains. The Stoney Indians told of the healing powers of the hot springs waters. These thermal springs would became the setting for the beginning of Canada’s national parks story. In 1883 three men tried to find their luck at trapping and prospecting. Instead of finding furs and ore, th
ey found liquid gold, thermal springs which they hoped would make them rich. The Reserve was enlarged and renamed more times since then. Lake Louise was a worthy ending of this great day. I dropped my teeth when the scene revealed itself. Snowy mountaintops, green pines, sky-blue tarns. Known to the Stoney people as „Lake of the Little Fishes,” Lake Louise was given its present name in 
1884. It honors Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, sixth child of Queen Victoria. Talk the photos instead of me! We had dinner in Grizzly House specializing in Alberta Beef, exotic game meats and seafood. Dining is based on fondue and hot rock because you have to roast your meat on your own. We ate a complete fondue dinner: to start soup, the appetizer was cheese fondue and then each person chose ma
in course. I chose beef and prawn fondue dinner, Chris had a hunter fondue dinner (buffalo, wild boar and venison), I don’t remember Nancy’s choice, and Robb had the most interesting meal, an exotic fondue dinner including shark, alligator, rattlesnake, ostrich, frogs legs, buffalo and venison. 
You can imagine that we had a really good time during roasting. We either could choose the buttered hot rock or the boiling oil to prepare our dishes. We laughed a lot, we might offered a funny spectacle to Gábor because he didn’t want to sleep in his baby seat, he was just staring at us with wide eyes. The dessert was a chocolate fondue with melted Toblerone chocolate and fresh fruit. We got it with candles on it because Robb had birthday that day. As a matter of curiosity: there was a telephone at each table and the numbers of a concrete table were on the back of the place 
mat. 
When we arrived Calgary we were received cordially with bunches of flowers at the airport by long-seen and not-so-long-seen relatives. The western part of Canada fascinated us. East-Canada was captivating as well but the last one-third part of our journey put 
a charm on us for life, mainly the second day of our stay in Alberta, when we visited Banff and Lake Louise. This was how I imagined Canada. It was picturesque. I need to write a lot because I’d like to enclose many photos. The mountains fascinated us even from the distance on our way to the National Park of Canada. Our first stop was the town of Canmore, the Bow River runs through it. I liked t
he bungalows by the riverbank. The next town is Banff. Banff National Park is the birthplace of Canada’s national park system, the 3rd oldest in the world, established in 1885 and named for Banffshire, Scotland – birthplace of two of the original Canadian Pacific Railway directors, built through Banff in 1883. There are more than 1000 glaciers in the park, (its size is 6641 square kms). The slogan is: take only photographs, leave only footprints. We started our t
rip at a lovely famous waterfall. Reach out and touch the sky… The next stop was the Gondola. It’s almost like „libegő” in Hungary. Fully-enclosed, 4-passenger gondola cabins whisk you to the top in comfort and safety, it’s a quite ride. The upper terminal elevation is 7486 feet (2281 metres) above sea level, even birds fly below you. More mountains in a moment than mo
st see in a lifetime. We had lunch at the upper terminal where we were witness breathtaking views in every directions. The roof-top observation deck provided an unobstructed 360° view. Chipmunks and Whisky Jack were real shows. Whisky Jack is a bird. If you raise your palm with a little piece of bread on it, it comes, touches your hand, receives the food and flies away. We visited the Cave and Basin National Hi
storic Site for the full story of the National Park. For more than 10 000 years, aboriginal people travelled through the Bow Valley, camping and hunting in the mountains. The Stoney Indians told of the healing powers of the hot springs waters. These thermal springs would became the setting for the beginning of Canada’s national parks story. In 1883 three men tried to find their luck at trapping and prospecting. Instead of finding furs and ore, th
ey found liquid gold, thermal springs which they hoped would make them rich. The Reserve was enlarged and renamed more times since then. Lake Louise was a worthy ending of this great day. I dropped my teeth when the scene revealed itself. Snowy mountaintops, green pines, sky-blue tarns. Known to the Stoney people as „Lake of the Little Fishes,” Lake Louise was given its present name in 
1884. It honors Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, sixth child of Queen Victoria. Talk the photos instead of me! We had dinner in Grizzly House specializing in Alberta Beef, exotic game meats and seafood. Dining is based on fondue and hot rock because you have to roast your meat on your own. We ate a complete fondue dinner: to start soup, the appetizer was cheese fondue and then each person chose ma
in course. I chose beef and prawn fondue dinner, Chris had a hunter fondue dinner (buffalo, wild boar and venison), I don’t remember Nancy’s choice, and Robb had the most interesting meal, an exotic fondue dinner including shark, alligator, rattlesnake, ostrich, frogs legs, buffalo and venison. 
You can imagine that we had a really good time during roasting. We either could choose the buttered hot rock or the boiling oil to prepare our dishes. We laughed a lot, we might offered a funny spectacle to Gábor because he didn’t want to sleep in his baby seat, he was just staring at us with wide eyes. The dessert was a chocolate fondue with melted Toblerone chocolate and fresh fruit. We got it with candles on it because Robb had birthday that day. As a matter of curiosity: there was a telephone at each table and the numbers of a concrete table were on the back of the place 
mat. 
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