The Heart of the Rockies

Day 1 London – Calgary
Titan’s VIP Home Departure Service® transports you from your front door to London Heathrow Airport and your scheduled Air Canada direct flight to Calgary, Alberta. On arrival our coach transfers you to the Delta Bow Valley Hotel, where the remainder of the evening is free to relax and settle in.

Day 2 Calgary – Lethbridge
We depart Calgary this morning and head for Lethbridge, via the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, located at Fort Macleod. Named after a practice the Indians had of driving the buffalo over a cliff, this fascinating interpretation centre documents the buffalo hunting culture of the Plains Indians from ancient times to the arrival of the Europeans. From here we continue to Lethbridge and the Coast Lethbridge.

Day 3 Lethbridge – Great Falls
Our journey south this morning takes us across the border into America via Shelby, to Great Falls. In 1805, the explorers, Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, crossed this region on their ‘Voyage of Discovery’, in search of an all-water route, connecting the trade routes of the Pacific to the Atlantic. Our hotel tonight is the Holiday Inn, Great Falls.

Day 4 Great Falls – Yellowstone
Today we continue southwards to Helena, capital of the state of Montana and site of a gold strike in 1864. From Helena we travel through Gallatin National Forest and on to West Yellowstone to our hotel, the Three Bear Lodge, where we stay for the next two nights, nestled in the National Park.

Day 5 Yellowstone Park
A day touring the world’s oldest national park. Yellowstone remains largely in the same natural state that it was more than one hundred years ago, at the time it was designated a National Park. It is also one of the world’s most extensive areas of geyser activity, a direct result of an enormous volcanic eruption some six hundred thousand years ago. Our tour of the park includes Old Faithful, one of the most consistent geysers in Yellowstone, erupting around 20 times a day a column of water and steam to an average height of 130ft.

Day 6 Yellowstone Park – Missoula
Today we visit the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Centre. The centre provides an opportunity to observe, learn and appreciate grizzly bears and grey wolves. Leaving Yellowstone, we head to Virginia City, a historical city of the Wild West and a well-preserved old Victorian gold mining town. After a stop in Butte, we continue on to Missoula and our overnight hotel, the Holiday Inn Missoula Downtown at the Park.

Day 7 Missoula – Waterton
We leave Missoula and continue north, passing the 18,400-acre National Bison Range with its bison, elk, antelope and mountain sheep. We drive via Polson and Flathead Lake through the Flathead Indian Reservation, en route to Glacier National Park and the Canadian border and follow the famed ‘Going to the Sun Road’, a spectacular 52-mile stretch of twisting, winding road that cuts through the park (subject to favourable weather conditions). It was the historic joining of two stunningly beautiful wilderness areas, Waterton Lakes National Park and its American cousin Glacier National Park, in 1932 that today gives us the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. We transfer to our hotel for the next two nights, the Aspen Village Inn.

Day 8 Waterton
We enjoy a morning tour of Waterton Lakes National Park which will include the spectacular sights of the area. Later in the day we have arranged an international scenic boat cruise across Waterton Lake and the American border. The park as a whole was declared in 1979 by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve, and as such has a spectacular array of wildlife, in both animals and plants.

Day 9 Waterton – Banff
We depart Waterton this morning for Banff and travel north to Radium Hot Springs in British Columbia. From Radium Hot Springs we drive through Kootenay National Park, cross the Continental Divide at Vermilian Pass and continue into Alberta and Banff National Park. Our hotel for the next three nights is the Banff Park Lodge.

Day 10 Banff – Lake Lousie – Banff
This morning we tour the surrounding area of Banff and visit Canada’s most famous lake, Lake Louise. From here we have a picture postcard view of Victoria Glacier. The remainder of the afternoon is free in Banff and you may decide to take the gondola ride to Sulphur Mountain, top of the world at 7,500ft. This evening there are many good restaurants in Banff from which to choose.

Day 11 Banff
Today we are at leisure in one of the loveliest small towns in North America or take an optional full day tour to the amazing Columbia Icefield, one of the biggest accumulations of ice and snow of the Arctic Circle.

Day 12 Banff – London
Time for last minute sightseeing and shopping before boarding our coach for the transfer to Calgary Airport and our return Air Canada flight direct to London.

Day 13 London
Arrival at London Heathrow Airport where our staff will greet and transfer you to Titan transport for the journey home to your own front door.

IMPORTANT TOUR INFORMATION

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