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Western Canada

SS/Mike Norton

Travellers who choose to visit Western Canada are characteristically nature lovers or sports enthusiasts who enjoy direct interaction with the great outdoors. This is an area bigger than Mexico, but inhabited by fewer people than Switzerland, almost all of them squeezed into one small corner. The remaining wilderness is as diverse as it is vast, containing row upon row of lofty ice-capped mountains, huge lakes, mighty rivers, dense forests, broad valleys and plateaux, wide open prairie, steep-sided canyons, glaciers and ice fields, Arctic tundra and even the odd patch of cactus-spattered desert or bizarre Badlands moonscape. The lush coastline is punctuated by long, narrow fjords and fringed with islands of all sizes.

As this was one of the last places on Earth to be ‘discovered’ by Europeans, previously occupied solely by people defined by reverence and respect for their environment, prophets of sustainability, this paradise has not yet been spoilt. It is one of the last remaining, easily accessible places on Earth where nature can be experienced in her most wild and pristine state, replete with ancient trees and increasingly rare large mammals.

The people display a distinctive ‘West Coast’ character, humbled and clearly delighted by their spacious land, Western Canadians tend to be polite, tolerant and easy-going, opposed to oppression, war and corporate culture; all of which makes travel here easy, safe and relaxing.

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