canada
Why should I plan your trip? Because most people picture one Canada, and there are at least four worth actually knowing.
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$1,000+
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may-sep
Canadian Rockies, Quebec City & BeyondA COUNTRY TOO LARGE FOR ONE ITINERARY
Moraine Lake is the color it is because of rock flour, glacial silt so fine it suspends in the water and refracts light into a blue that looks retouched in every photo and isn't. That's Canada in miniature, a country where the postcard version turns out to be true. The Rockies hold that lake and dozens like it, ringed by peaks sharp enough to make the Alps look worn down by comparison. On the opposite coast, Quebec City keeps its ramparts fully intact, the only walled city left in North America north of Mexico, where the street signs are in French because the city never stopped being French, four hundred years after it was founded. Between the two sits a landmass so vast that flying coast to coast takes longer than flying to Europe, tundra, prairie, and the kind of empty highway that makes you understand why Canadians talk about distance differently than anyone else does.
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Banff
Moraine Lake and Lake Louise owe their impossible blue to glacial rock flour suspended in the water, set beneath peaks that rise straight out of the valley floor with almost no foothills to soften the approach.
Vancouver & Whistler
A city where the mountains are visible from downtown and the ski resort is less than two hours away, making it one of the rare places where ocean and alpine terrain sit on the same itinerary without a flight between them.
Quebec City
The only fully walled city in North America north of Mexico, its old town still runs on French street signs and four-hundred-year-old stone, a genuine transplant of Europe that never got Americanized.
Nova Scotia
Fishing villages, red cliffs, and a coastline that moves at the pace of the tide, the slower, maritime counterpoint to the mountain-driven west.
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