Our next stop in the rockies is Lake Louise in Banff National Park. Getting there involved an amazing drive south through the mountains on the icefields parkway - so named because of the glaciers around. We visited the columbia icefields centre and had a distant look at the athabasca glacier. You can take a guided hike on this one or even a snow bus tour! We did neither, partly because of Sams ankle and partly because you couldn't possibly beat the heli-hike in N...

We picked up our car from Seattle Airport, loaded up and drove into our 11th country in the space of 11 months. The Canadian border was only 2 hours from Seattle and we really didn't have much of an idea of where to go! This is probably our least researched country maybe because its our last! A visit to the information centre got us on our way and we had a rough route planned. Deciding to bypass Vancouver for now we drove up the coast as far as a little town cal...