Photo says it all: we’re aboard the Rocky Mountaineer train, breakfast is over and at 10 o’clock champagne is served. You really know it’s holidays when there’s nothing to do but sit back and relax with glass in hand while looking at amazing scenery. The Frazer River valley is flat and fertile to start with, quickly becoming green and mountainous. I heard a complaint that there were too many trees to get a good photo and it was hard, but David enjoyed the trees, all native dry land conifers except for a messy plantation of cottonwoods down by the river.
We were at Hell’s Gate around lunch time, then Avalanche Alley - no avalanches today fortunately. By afternoon we were running through semi-arid desert with big-horn sheep on one side and a huge lake on the other. At Kamloops - means meeting of the waters - we are bussed off the train to hotels to stay overnight.
I like the idea of a train trip where you don't have to sleep on the train.
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