Banff is my favourite place I’ve visited in Canada, but my experience did start off rocky. I arrived in Banff at around 4am after taking a 12-hour overnight bus, on which I got around 2 hours sleep. I also realised while on the bus that the hostel I’d booked had no running water and very…

Whistler was my first experience of the Canada I’d always imagined: Mountains, snow, lakes and forests. A friend I had made at the hostel in Vancouver offered me a ride there, (about 3 hours away from Vancouver) as that’s where she was heading, so I took the opportunity for free transport. I chose to stay…

In keeping with my current year, many of my plans fell through within the first three days of my arrival in Canada. I had booked a guided tour of the Canadian Rockies for my time in Canada and was very excited to spend two weeks hiking and camping in the mountains. Unfortunately, I discovered while…