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Up at 6 and trundling our bags from the hotel room over to the station for today we were starting out two day trip on the Rocky Mountaineer train...
Breakfast on the train as we pulled out of Jasper, with deer and elk by the side of the track as we made our way through mountains, over bridges, through tunnels and along the banks of lakes and rivers all the way to Kamloops...
I spent a good part of the trip with my head stuck out the window enjoying the views...
We were travelling the Yellowhead route, over the second trans-continental line built across Canada and opened in 1917, the Canadian National Railway route...
We headed up through the Yellowhead Pass, the easiest (as it’s the lowest) pass through the Rockies...
The Canadian Pacific Railway chose a more difficult route through the Kicking Horse pass to the south because of political tensions between Canada and the USA at the time, and a desire to safeguard Canadian territory....
One of the many highlights was a return to snow-capped Mount Robson...
After running alongside Moose Lake, the train crossed the Fraser River, then, for almost 20 miles, the train passed some of Canada's most magnificent mountains in the Premier range, named after early Canadian prime ministers...
We passed the site, marked by a small cairn, where 12 members of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery were killed when two CN trains collided...
We saw Pyramid Falls where water cascades 300 feet beside the tracks....
After a long, but very scenic and interesting journey, we arrived at Kamloops around 4pm and were transported to and checked into our hotel, all part of the package...
In the evening after a couple of drinks, we enjoyed an Indian meal at Maurya’s Fine Indian Cuisine...
I regretted we’d come on holiday so early, as Alice Cooper is playing her on 21 September...
An early night again re the early start tomorrow for day two...
Highlight of the Day : Through the Rockies by train...
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