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On 9th July, after exploring Japan for almost 2 months, I caught a direct flight across the Pacific to Vancouver in Canada. I was a little sad to be leaving Asia, but now I had the Americas to explore!<br /><br/><br/>
1996 Travel Diary (Part 2)
Gjcmcclurg2005-12-23 14:43:41
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On 9th July, after exploring Japan for almost 2 months, I caught a direct flight across the Pacific to Vancouver in Canada. I was a little sad to be leaving Asia, but now I had the Americas to explore!
My flight arrived in Vancouver in the early afternoon of 10th July and I traveled directly to a hostel on Main street, in the downtown area. The friendly hostel was located in a pretty seedy part of town with a large number of undesirable people. The weather was cool but sunny, ideal for exploring the city and the large Stanley Park. My preconception of Vancouver was of a pristine modern city and so I found the large number of beggars and drug users quite a surprise. Stanley Park was certainly beautiful and I spent several days walking around the 'Sea wall' and visiting the outdoor pools. As always with North American cities Vancouver didn't really hold my attention and so I planned a trip up to the Rockies.
I met a Swiss guy called Eric, and together we decided to hire a car for a week and explore the Banff & Jasper National Parks up in the Rockies. We managed to recruit two other travelers for the trip, a German girl called Aino, and a Japanese girl called Shoko. On 16th July we collected our Grand Am V6, loaded up and set of for the Rockies. The first day we drove for about 10 hours and arrived at a campsite just outside Revelstoke at about 22.00. After building a campfire we cracked open the beers and were laughing and joking to 2.00am - not to the amusement of the more serious Canadian campers! The following morning we continued our drive up through the scenic Glaciers National Park to Lake Louise in the Banff National Park.
We spent 5 nights traveling up the Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper. Over the five days we did some great hikes including Lake Louise, Lake Moraine, Lark Valley, Sentinel Pass, Columbia Icefields, Athabasca Falls, Angel Glacier and Maligne Canyon. One day we did a
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