If you are trying to find a summer 2012 tour and wondering where to take your summer vacation, why not look to our neighbors to the north? Escaping the scorching heat on a summer travel Canadian tour will lend you back much of your energy so you can enjoy more of the amazing sights while having less to sweat about. A tour of the Canadian Rockies often leaves visitors awestruck and is well worth a visit in the summer months.
When looking for a group travel tour, make sure your Canadian tour includes Banff National Park; it is Canada's oldest National Park founded in 1885. The area is very rich in Native American history and on the way to Banff National Park is Head-smashed-in Buffalo Jump where the Blackfoot tribe hunted buffalo by cloaking themselves in predator skins and spooking their prey enough to run off of a 36 ft high cliff. Banff National Park also has a great deal of early rock paintings from Native American cultures and the area is of tremendous historic importance to aboriginal cultures. Paintings found within the park depict many objects from day to day life of the indigenous tribes as well as more abstract drawings that may have been inspired by dreams or encounters with supernatural beings.
Jasper National Park is another great place for Canadian adventures. Imagine yourself at the planet's largest dark sky preserve (no billboards and no city lights)! Not only is Jasper National Park a sanctuary for wildlife due to its commitment in protecting the land from city light, Jasper's elevation range, geology, and geography have long enabled notable diversity in nature. A tour of the Canadian Rockies gives travelers a taste of a vast ecosystem consisting of 1,300 species of plants, 20,000 insect and spider types, 40 fish types, 16 species of reptiles and amphibians, 277 species of birds, and 69 different species of mammals. Canadian travel almost guarantees you will see a moose, porcupine, bighorn sheep, beaver, lynx, wolverine, and/or elk, just to name a few. The surprising variety of native species is an added bonus to the natural beauty already present in Canada's scenery.
Banff and Jasper National Parks are a part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site and both have alluring natural beauty and much biological diversity to encounter. Taking a Canadian Rockies tour is great by train or motor coach! However you get around, you can't go wrong with a Summer vacation spent touring the Canadian Rockies. All the beauty and diversity of this part of the world is something you will never forget.
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