Canadian Rockies Featuring Heli-Hiking (9 Days starting from $4,550)

Canadian Rockies Featuring Heli-Hiking

A 9-Day tour starting from $4,550

Length:	9 Days
Type:	Deluxe Tour
Category:	Canada Tour
Operator:	Tauck
Tour Code:	CH2008

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About This Tour

Experience the Canadian Rockies and the remote alpine world beyond as Tauck marks heli-hiking's 30th anniversary! Two nights each at legendary resorts in Banff and Jasper national parks are followed by a 3-night heli-hiking adventure at "the top of the world.”

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Hotel and Lodge Accommodations – The tour price includes all hotel and lodge accommodations with private baths. The Tauck standard is to provide the best available accommodations without sacrificing value. Although the quality may differ slightly from place to place, our commitment to your comfort is unwavering. Two-bedded rooms are reserved in most hotels. Triples are two-bedded rooms with a rollaway cot where available and are not recommended for comfort.

The Cariboo Lodge has double rooms, each with two twin beds, and single rooms, and all have private baths. The lodge cannot accommodate triples in one room; triples will be accommodated in two rooms. There are two cots that are available for small children. The lodge also features a comfortable living room, dining room, entertainment lounge with a full-service bar, sauna, whirlpool and gift shop. The Cariboo Lodge has no telephones; however, it does communicate via radio to the other lodges.

Meals: 8 Breakfasts, 5 Lunches & 8 Dinners

At the Cariboo Lodge, breakfast is served buffet-style and includes cold fruit and cereal and a hot dish. At lunch you have a full choice of sandwiches, fruit, energy bars and veggie sticks which you bag and take with you for the day’s hike. Dinner is served family-style and has a set menu. The lodge can accommodate special meal requests when notified in advance.

1. Arrive Calgary / Banff
Tour departs: 3:00 PM from Calgary Airport. Your Tauck Director will be at the airport from 2:00 PM. If you arrive the day before, you may join the tour at the Delta Bow Valley at approximately 1:00 PM. Cross the last few miles of prairie before heading into the Canadian Rockies. Please join us tonight for a welcome dinner. Meals D

2. A Day in Banff National Park
After a lesson on the finer points of mountain photography from a professional photographer, set off on a rafting trip on the Bow River, named for the reeds along its banks used by First Nations peoples to make bows. The rest of the day is at leisure at your resort in Banff Nat’l Park. Meals BD

3. Lake Louise / Icefields Parkway
Drive to see Lake Louise, traveling between towering peaks, over silver streams and past glacial gorges. Travel the Icefields Parkway; view the blue waters of Peyto Lake and see Athabasca Glacier. Your home for the next two nights is in the heart of Jasper National Park. Meals BLD

4. Jasper National Park
Today is at your leisure to spend as you wish in the lovely lakeside setting of your lodge, set within the heart of Canada’s largest national park; optional outdoor activities available to you include guided walks, biking, tennis, swimming, golf on a championship course, whitewater rafting, or hiking along hundreds of miles of trails. You’ll also have an opportunity to talk with a Parks Canada official during a presentation on the natural history, legends, and lore of Canada’s national parks. Meals BD

5. Helicopter to the Cariboos
Journey today from Jasper National Park to Valemount, where a helicopter transports you into British Columbia’s majestic Cariboo Mountains – a summertime wonderland of soaring peaks and emerald valleys. Explore with our expert guides for the next three days; our guests, not our guides, set the pace! Join us this afternoon for your first helicopter lift to amazing alpine experiences that are accessible only by helicopter – you’ll walk in settings that most visitors to the Canadian Rockies never see and can only imagine. Nothing compares to the thrill of exploring and discovering, a shared enrichment with friends and family that is a priceless memory on any vacation! Return to the lodge for an evening of great camaraderie. Meals BLD

6 – 7. Explore Pristine Alpine Meadows
Depending on your interest and activity level, for two days you’ll be taken by helicopter to the most fantastic places deep within (and on top of!) the mountains where you can experience nature as it should be experienced – pristine and untouched! Meals BLD / BLD

8. Cariboos to Calgary
Travel from the Cariboos back to Calgary, and join us for a farewell toast this evening. Meals BLD

9. Journey Home
Tour ends: Calgary. Fly home anytime. Allow a minimum of two hours for check-in – flights direct to the United States clear U.S. customs in Calgary. Note: a transfer to the Calgary Airport is not included. Meals B

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Touring Date	Land Only	Land + Air	Single (Land Only)	Single (Land + Air)
7/8/2009 - 7/16/2009	$4,790
7/17/2009 - 7/25/2009	$4,790
7/26/2009 - 8/3/2009	$4,790
8/4/2009 - 8/12/2009	$4,790

Helicopter and gratuities to the mountain guides are included Airfare can be booked from all major US Cities, please inquire at the time of booking

Tauck celebrates the 30th anniversary of Heli-hiking in Canada!Join experienced mountain guides for three days of heli-hiking in the Cariboos, featuring walks designed for every age and ability.

Rafting Adventure on the Bow River
Be on the lookout for wildlife as a rafting trip on the glacier-fed Bow River in Banff National Park takes you past Bow Falls, Tunnel Mountain and Surprise Corner.

Parks Canada Talk, Jasper National Park
Enjoy an opportunity to speak with a Parks Canada official about the natural history of Canada’s national parks during a presentation at Jasper National Park.

Additional hotel nights and traveler's insurance are available.

Helicopter and gratuities to the mountain guides are included

Airfare can be booked from all major US Cities, please inquire at the time of booking

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