Postcard from Canada - 03 - Banff, AB

Ini adalah tempat yang aku tak perlu nak cerita banyak. Tapi kalau orang tanya, di mana kah favourite place aku di dunia ni yang aku pernah jejak.

Dan jawapan aku adalah Banff, Alberta.

Perjalanan driving nak sampai ke Banff tu dah memang cukup memukau mata

Sebab kira ni favourite place aku, aku bagi satu entry khusus je untuk Banff ni.

Kasi gambar gambar yang mengimbau kenangan lama. Rasa macam baru kelmarin aku terkinja kinja kat pekan kecik ni teruja dengan keindahan alam semulajadinya.

Area Jasper National Park dan Banff National Park adalah area yang paling lawa aku pernah tengok.

Tasik, Snow capped mountain memang mengasyikan

Setiap musim pastinya pemandangan sangat indah

Tenang dan damai

Cantik tak terkata

Cuaca yang nyaman dan suasana yang menenangkan

Pekan Banff yang kecil tapi best. Ingat lagi aku bergambar kat signage ni

Fakta fakta mengenai Banff, Alberta yang menarik untuk di ambik tau tapi tak berapa nak penting mana pun sebenarnya : 

• Banff is located at an elevation of 4,537 feet (1,383 metres) making it the highest town in Canada
• Established in 1885 as Canada’s first National Park (third in the world)
• Banff National Park covers 6,641 square kilometres (2,564 miles)
• Banff has over of 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) of hiking trails
• Castleguard caves are Canada’s longest cave system
• Home to Alberta’s southernmost herd of the endangered woodland caribou
• Banff has over 2,468 campsites
• Banff National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a United nations designation which helps protect over 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 square miles) of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
• The name “Banff” is derived from Banffshire, Scotland, the birthplace of two of the original directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Banff National Park is home to the following seven National historic sites: Skoki Lodge, Abbot Pass Hut, Howse Pass, Cave and Basin, Banff Park Museum, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, and the Cosmic Ray Station on Sanson Peak
• The highest mountain in Banff National Park is Mt. Forbes which stands at 11,850 feet (3,612 metres)
• Mountains in Banff National Park are 45 to 120 million years old
• Banff National Park has in excess of 1,000 glaciers
• The Bow River in Banff flows as far as Hudson’s Bay
• The largest dammed lake in Banff is Lake Minnewanka and the largest natural lake is Hector Lake
• More than 4,000,000 visitors travel to Banff National Park every year since 1996

Salah satu hotel mewah siap ada sungai mengalir dengan air bersih di kawasan ni. Siap lepak lepak segarkan diri dengan air sungai dia

Fermont Hotel Banff dengan binaan Istana Lama

Fermont Hotel Banff

Pekan Banff. Dulu pun ada HRC kat sini

HRC Banff yang dah di tutup

Pekan kecik je tapi semua ada

Paling best memang lawa

Banff di wartakan sebagai salah satu tapak Warisan Dunia, UNESCO

Keindahan alam semulajadi

Tenang dan damai

Tersimpan memori paling indah di sanubari 

Antara kenangan yang aku ingat kat Banff ni. Masa aku drive sampai kat sini tengah malam. Cuaca pulak sejuk gila. Sebab cheapskate tak nak cari motel, aku dengan gofren masa tu, kami tidur dalam kereta je.

Pagi pagi tersedar ramai budak budak sekolah berkerumun kat kereta kami. Rupanya aku tumpang tidur kat pandang sekolah !! Hahaha. 

Ada sekali, aku singgah di kat R&R kat Lake Louise. Pemandangan time tu memang lawa gila. Ada satu kedai makcik kat situ. Dia tegur dan kami borak borak pastu dia belanja aku coffee FOC. Baik betul dia. Buat aku rasa kedatangan aku di alu alukan ke bumi Canada ni. Some people we meet in our lives touch us in ways that last a lifetime. Ye dok?

Dia kagum sungguh aku drive jauh jauh dari LA sampai ke Banff ni.

"demi cinta nyeh ! semua pun boleh !"

Banff memang tersendiri. Highly recommended kalau sesiapa ke Canada untuk jejakkan kaki ke sini. Alam semulajadinya memang menarik dan pemandangan yang lawa. Confirm kalau dah pegi rasa nak jejak balik ke sana.

Untunglah En Ghaz boleh ulang alik pegi hari hari jer ke sini !

No postcard for Banff. Tak tau mana aku letak. Pics from internet.

Banff, Alberta

Irony nya, Alanis Morissette berasal dari Alberta, Canada.

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you think
A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out