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Wonders of the Canadian Rockies with Rocky Mountaineer Silverleaf and Alaska Oceanview Cabin - 26 May 2027 to 15 Sep 2027
Operated by Trafalgar
Tripcode: 4SWONSZA27
Overview
Destination:
Canada,
United States,
Duration:18 days
Type:Group tour (max 45)
Travel Period
May 2027 - September 2027
Across eighteen days from Vancouver and back again, you’ll travel through the Canadian Rockies with snowcapped peaks rising above you and glacier-fed lakes glowing emerald green beneath them. Choose how you want to experience the landscape, from guided hikes and food tours to white water rafting, with cold river water racing between the mountains. In Banff, a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience takes you into the boreal forest for a Plant Medicine Walk with a First Nations Local Specialist. Then board Rocky Mountaineer for the journey towards Vancouver, with pine-covered slopes, river valleys and miles of wilderness passing beyond the glass, before sailing into Alaska’s Inside Passage, where deep fjords, blue-white glaciers and Gold Rush towns line the route.
Iconic Experience
- Vancouver: Vancouver's historic neighbourhoods spring to life on a tour with your Travel Director. Admire the Victorian facades, cobblestone streets and charming lighting of Gastown as you make your way to the leafy sanctuary of Stanley Park.
- Victoria: Victoria. A waterfront city of historic sites known for its gardens and British influence. View the Parliament Buildings erected in 1897 with beautiful gardens. Then explore on your own, strolling along the Inner Harbour where you will have the chance to watch street buskers perform or venturing to Victoria's unique shopping areas in Market Square.
- Mount Robson: Mount Robson, one of the world's crown jewels awaits. Admire one of the finest views in the Rocky Mountains of this UNESCO-listed icon which is also the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies at 12,972 feet. Not only will you bask in a view of Mount Robson but learn from your Travel Director why it's the most prominent mount in North America's Rocky Mountain Range.
- Icefields Parkway: Unlock the Canadian Rockies' pristine wilderness on one of the most scenic drives in North America – the Icefield Parkway. This stretch of double-lane highway from Jasper to Lake Louise winds along the Continental Divide through rocky mountain peaks, rock spires, waterfalls, icefields, valleys and more than 100 ancient glaciers. Snap a pic at a viewpoint to capture the beauty.
- Columbia Icefield: Gear up for a Columbia Icefield Adventure. Board a massive, specially designed ‘Ice Explorer’ to view one of the largest non-polar ice fields in the world, the Athabasca Glacier. Stop at the best spot to walk on, feel and drink from the Glacier. What better way to appreciate this natural wonder? You’ll even enhance your visit learning about the Columbia Icefield, how the glacier has changed and the thrill of driving up the moraine deposits to reach the glacier.
- Departing Banff, you’ll spend two days travelling through the Canadian Rockies and British Columbia by luxury rail. Cross the Continental Divide and wind through the Spiral Tunnels before an overnight stop in Kamloops, then follow river gorges and lake country as the journey continues towards Vancouver.
- Board your premium cruise liner and spend the week cruising calm coastal waters, majestic fjords and massive glaciers. With stops in Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan and plenty of opportunities to spot whales, orcas, bears and salmon, you’ll have every opportunity to admire Alaska's wild beauty.
Highlights:
Standard inclusions
- 10 Breakfast (B)
- 8 Lunch (L)
- 7 Dinner (D)
- An expert Travel Director and professional Driver
- Cherry-picked hotels, all tried and trusted
- Audio Headsets provided throughout your holiday to enhance your included sightseeing experiences
- Luxury air-conditioned coach with Wi-Fi in most countries
- City orientation tours
- Extensive variety of Choice Experiences
- On occasion, hotels of similar standard and location may be utilised.
Itinerary
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Collapse allBegin Your Journey in Vancouver
Arriving in Vancouver, you’ll make your own way to the hotel before meeting your Travel Director and fellow travellers this afternoon. If you’re here early, perhaps follow the waterfront through Coal Harbour, where yacht masts line the marina and seaplanes skim across Burrard Inlet before lifting towards the North Shore mountains. Along the seawall, the harbour stretches beside you with downtown at your back and the mountains across the water.
Journey from Vancouver to Victoria
With your Travel Director, you’ll begin in Gastown, where red-brick paving and heritage buildings lead to the Steam Clock, its whistle cutting through a curl of steam on Water Street. In Stanley Park, 400 hectares of West Coast rainforest stretch beyond the city streets, with towering old-growth trees and deep green foliage overhead. Leaving Vancouver, board the ferry across the Strait of Georgia to Vancouver Island, watching wooded shorelines and small islands slip by, perhaps with a seal breaking the surface along the way. You’ll arrive in Victoria, with tomorrow set aside to explore the city in more depth.
Victoria Highlights: Butchart Gardens and Chinatown
After breakfast at Butchart Gardens, you can follow winding paths through carefully planted beds and descend into the Sunken Garden, where flowers and greenery now cover the walls of a former limestone quarry. Back in Victoria, your Travel Director introduces Canada’s oldest Chinatown, the grand Fairmont Empress and the stone facades and copper domes of the Parliament Buildings. The afternoon is yours, perhaps browse Government Street before following the rich scent of roasted coffee into a cafe, or spend a few hours among the collections of the Royal BC Museum. Alternatively, choose today’s Optional Experience and head out for a whale watching tour, scanning the open water for the sweep of a dorsal fin or the sudden lift of a tail above the waves.
Coast to Mountains: Victoria to Sun Peaks
Leaving Victoria, you’ll board the ferry back to the mainland, perhaps catching sight of dolphins cutting through the open water as the coast recedes behind you. Heading inland through British Columbia, you’ll watch dense forest crowd the roadside before broad valleys open beyond the road and mountain ridges line the horizon. In Sun Peaks, wander through the pedestrian village beneath gabled roofs, colourful façades and timber balconies, with dark forest climbing behind the rooftops to ridgelines etched against the sky.
Sun Peaks to Jasper via Mount Robson
From Sun Peaks, you’ll head deeper into the Rockies towards Mount Robson, travelling beneath layers of grey rock, snowfields and ice above the Fraser River valley. At the Mount Robson Visitor Centre, you'll step out and gaze up at the Canadian Rockies’ highest peak, its summit reaching 3,954 metres. Continue into Jasper National Park, following the road through glacially carved valleys and alongside wild rivers before settling in for the night among the conifers.
Explore Jasper National Park Your Way
With a full day in Jasper National Park, choose how close you want to get to its rivers and lakes through today’s Optional Experiences. On the Athabasca River, settle into the raft as the current tugs you downstream, water brushing the sides while you scan the banks for wildlife. Or join a seasonal cruise across Maligne Lake, where blue-green glacial water glints beneath snow-and-ice-capped mountains. The boat carries you towards Spirit Island, 14 kilometres up the lake, where you can step ashore beside the cold water with dark spruce and pale rock all around.
Jasper to Banff: Icefields and Lake Louise
South along the Icefields Parkway, you’ll wind between sheer rock faces, turquoise lakes and glaciers spilling from the high icefields. At the Columbia Icefield, board a massive Ice Explorer and rumble onto Athabasca Glacier, then step onto ancient ice, cold and rough beneath your boots. Fill your bottle with glacier meltwater and taste its icy chill before continuing to Lake Louise, where turquoise water gleams against dark forest and bare mountain rock. By evening, you’ll arrive in Banff for the night.
Discover Banff from Valley to Peaks
If weather allows, begin the day with an Optional Experience helicopter flight above Banff, the low thrum of the helicopter around you as forested slopes, grey peaks and ribbons of snow fall away below. Back on the ground, the rest of the day is yours to spend as you choose. Join a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience Plant Medicine Walk with a First Nations Local Specialist, learning to recognise the plants growing around Cascade Ponds and how they have traditionally been used as medicine. Alternatively, end the evening with another Optional Experience, gliding up Sulphur Mountain on the Banff Gondola before dinner high above the Bow Valley, with six mountain ranges layered beyond the windows.
Board Rocky Mountaineer for Kamloops
Aboard Rocky Mountaineer, you begin the first of two days by rail towards Kamloops, with forested slopes, snowfields and rock faces moving beyond the windows. At the Spiral Tunnels, the train loops through the mountain before emerging into the open, and the Rockies return in a rush of rock, forest and open sky. Through Kicking Horse Canyon, you trace the river below while steep walls of rock press close to the tracks and the railway curves through the gorge. As Kamloops nears, you leave the high mountain passes for dry hills and open ranch country, settling in for the night before continuing west tomorrow.
Ride Rocky Mountaineer into Vancouver
Back aboard Rocky Mountaineer, you’ll continue west through the Coast Mountains, watching remote valleys, winding rivers and great sweeps of wilderness pass beyond the glass. Settle into the gentle hum of the train as the railway threads through Canada’s west, carrying you towards Vancouver. Arriving at the station by late afternoon, you’ll make your own way to your hotel before your Alaska cruise begins the following day.
Sail From Vancouver Beneath Lions Gate
By 1:00pm, you’re aboard your Holland America ship at Canada Place, ready to leave Vancouver behind for the waters of Alaska. As the ship eases away, the waterfront recedes and a white wake spreads across Burrard Inlet. Ahead, Lions Gate Bridge crosses the First Narrows in one long, elegant sweep, its slender deck suspended between twin open-work steel towers, with Stanley Park on one shore and the North Shore on the other. You'll pass beneath that great span of steel before Vancouver falls astern and the voyage north begins.
Cruise Alaska’s Forested Inside Passage
You'll cruise through Alaska’s Inside Passage with deep fjords cutting between forested islands and mountains streaked with snow. Dense temperate rainforest covers much of this long coastal corridor, climbing from rocky shorelines towards steep, pale slopes. As you travel through the archipelago, one horizon seems to sit behind another: dark green islands in the foreground, mountain walls beyond and white peaks rising in the distance.
Alaska’s Fjord Country: Tracy Arm to Juneau
Entering Tracy Arm Fjord, you'll travel between immense granite walls, their grey faces streaked with waterfalls and pockets of ice high above. Sitka spruce and western hemlock crowd the lower slopes as you pass through the Tongass National Forest, deep green pressed against bare stone. Reaching Juneau, Alaska’s capital on Gastineau Channel, you'll find the city spread along the waterfront beneath steep mountains. Walking through downtown Juneau, you'll pass historic facades and colourful Victorian homes, with the gold onion dome of St Nicholas among the streets ahead.
Explore Skagway’s Gold Rush Streets
Walking through Skagway, you’ll pass timber storefronts, false-front facades and wooden boardwalks preserved from its Gold Rush years, with decorative cornices and old saloon fronts lining Broadway. Beyond the low rooftops, steep mountains climb on either side of the valley, their upper slopes dusted with snow. Along Broadway, you'll pass century-old buildings, their painted timber exteriors dating back to Skagway’s Gold Rush years.
Glacier Bay: Ice, Rock and Wilderness
Cruising into Glacier Bay, you gaze across a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of blue-white glaciers, exposed rock and mountains carved by ice. Icebergs calved from tidewater glaciers drift across the bay, their fractured surfaces catching shades of blue and white against the darker stone. As you watch the glacier fronts, you may hear the sudden crack and thunder of calving ice, while bare rock, young vegetation and forest trace the extraordinary return of life across land once buried beneath a vast glacier.
Salmon Country: Ketchikan and Beyond
Arriving in Ketchikan, you can follow the curve of Ketchikan Creek through town, where old clapboard houses stand on pilings above the tidal channel. From June to September, you may catch silver flashes in the creek as salmon push upstream, a fitting detail in the town known as the Salmon Capital of the World. Perhaps you’ll spot carved totem poles throughout Ketchikan, with painted figures and deep-cut forms representing Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian artistic traditions.
Return South Along Alaska’s Coastal Passage
On your final day at sea, the return through the Inside Passage unfolds between densely wooded shores, rocky islets and long reaches of sheltered coastline. Closer to shore, you can pick out lichen-draped trees and waterfalls slipping through the greenery. In the narrower channels, islands sit on either side of your route before the coastline opens again into the long reaches of Southeast Alaska.
Sail Back into Vancouver Harbour
Sailing back into Vancouver Harbour, you’ll disembark at approximately 9:30 AM as your cruise comes to an end.
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