Last full day in Yellowknife! After the slightly disappointing aurora viewing the night before, I dragged myself up from bed after a few hours of sleep and made breakfast. After grabbing all our gear, we got picked up at 12:30pm to begin our dogsled tour at Aurora Village. It was my first time doing a day tour with the company and it was definitely much more relaxing than the nighttime aurora viewings. We had a much smaller group, so it…
After coming back from our first night of aurora viewing, we pretty much slept through the morning and didn’t leave the hotel till noon. Luckily the temperature was warmer, so we didn’t freeze as much as we did the first day. We began our day touring the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. It was a little tricky trying to navigate our way to the museum, partly cause our reference point (the lake) was completely frozen over. LOL. It was…
So getting to our sole purpose of our trip to the arctic – seeing the Northern Lights. We had booked our tour package with a company called Aurora Village weeks before we left. I think it’s the biggest company which runs these tours in Yellowknife. Their service, the facilities in their village, and the attentiveness of their guides were all excellent. Since it is Japanese run, you probably wouldn’t expect any less from them. We really didn’t know what to…
Yellowknife is one of those trips where you have to go at least once in your life, but after you visit you have no intentions of ever going again. Lol. To say that it was a little cold is a bit of an understatement. I swear during the three days I was there I have never been so cold in my life. Let’s backtrack a bit first. After grabbing breakfast in our hotel lobby, we took a shuttle to the…
For our last day in Banff, we woke up early, ate breakfast, then checked out of the hotel. Our hotel had given us free transit passes to ride the local bus, called Roam. We ended up using it to take the bus up to Sulphur Mountain to ride the gondolas. We arrived at the base of Sulphur Mountain a little early. It was really foggy that morning, so you could hardly see the top of the mountain. After exchanging our…