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I reached Vancouver at 11 last night, finished this 4 days travel.

 

Rocky Mountain is a place I really wanted to travel. The first time I've heard 'Rocky Mountain' is when I was in junior high school. Time flies, I got chance to study abroad in Canada last year, and there are some parts of Rockies in Canada. Fortunately, the school provides many traveling services. The Rocky Mountain tour is the best one. For some reasons I always couldn't have had a chance to take one since last year. However About 10 days ago, I went to an ESL travel agency for a Wistler tour, which is another nice place for traveling. Because I went to book too late, there was no more room for me. By the way, the server recommennded the 19th Dec. Rocky Mountain tour to me. Directly, I took it. Afterwards, I was tring to ask someone else to join me together, but seemed no one wanna come. Practically, they have totally missed out.

 

Rocky Mountain is probably the most amazing place I've ever seen.

 

Left the city Vancouver, we were heading to Alberta, which is another province beside British Columbia. We stopped at many towns which we passed. The most impressing one is called Kamloops, which is a small city. Actually, it isn't very small, and there are couple of good universities locate there. We went to a mall for dinner in Kamloops, and I saw around in the mall. Then I was wondering so many white people inside, hard to see an Asian man. I've been living in Vancouver for almost 2 years, and never left the city. I think there is almost 50% non-white, or 'esl' people live in Vancouver, I'm already used to it. Suddenly, I felt I was in a real west country, and everyone looked very kind and friendly. I was a little bit shy at the time. And I was also the only one who is from main land China in our tourist party.

 

The next few days , we visted many places that included banff and Panorama. Those sights are so hard to describe, all I can say is spectacular and exciting! Those huge mountains and peaks with thick snow were absolutely amazing. However, the temperature was sord of like a kidding, Minus 25, Minus 30 usually. 

 

As the ad. says, the trip is a good chance to make friends. I met a Hongkong guy on the first day, we shared the hotel room with other two guys who were from Japan and Switzerland. The Hongkong guy used to live in England for 11 years, his British English sounded very strange but also very cool. The japan guy with his girlfriend are studying in BCIT, which is a college in downtown Vancouver; the Swiss came to Canada just for about traveling. The following days, we always went together. Day 3, we enjoyed the hot spring in Panorama. That was absolutely wandorful, Almost everyone said he/she had never seen any hot spring like this. The pool was outside open air, the temperature outside was around 25 below. I weard 2 down coats still felt freezing cold, how amazing if people wear swiming suit outside? We tried. When I was passing from the change room door to the outside pool, guess I would be frozen if it lasted 10 more seconds. But once I got into the pool, it's just feeling like in a warm house. I became feeling so comfortable, many young whilte girls and boys weard swiming suits played in the pool. We had enjoyed it for a long time. There were gondolas connected pools and hotel houses, which was very nice. Because I was so tired, so I missed the following campfire, which was also a lot of fun. Earlier on Day 3, me and some travelers visited a famous peak, the others went snowboarding/skiing. Because of the bad temperature, I didn't choose snowboarding. I thought those who chose skiing/boarding were a little bit unwised. However, sadly, the truth is I was wrong. Most of skiiers said skiing in Banff was the most excited and interested thing on the whole trip.

 

I can not tell every detail like we went dinner with 4 japanese girls, we went ice skating, we explored the hotel which was the largest hotel in the world 50 years ago in banff etc. Moreover, I met a indian guy who has studyed in Vancouver also for 11 years, and we talked a lot, Afterwards, we went shopping for a while in banff.