Edmonton

Latitude: 53 34' 20'’ North

Longitude: 113 30' 48'’ West

Population: 730,372

Climate: semi-humid, and dry

Ecozone: Boreal Plains

Closet National Park: Elk Island, Banff, Waterton Lakes, Jasper                                                       

Industry:Oil                                                                                                                                        

Tourism: west Edmonton mall                                                                                                           

Landforms: Interior plains                                                                                                                       

Population Density: 1067 km2

Day 1~

It’s my first day in Edmonton and I’m loving it, first my hotel is beautiful, second my family and I are heading to Banff National Park. It took us an hour and a half to get to Banff National Park, once we arrived at the park (around 12:00pm), we could not decide what to do first because there was so much interesting stuff to do. So when my dad, mom, and sister were talking to each other about what to do I wondered off to look around and found a pamphlet that said ‘’Banff Culture Walk’’ (it celebrates the arts, culture and heritage throughout Banff) so I grabbed one a brought it back to the rest of my family and then we decided to take the culture walk first. The culture walk was about 3 hours long, the culture walk tour people took us all around the park they showed us Banff’s most interesting and vibrant art galleries, museums, and attractions. After the culture walk we seen a site for ‘’ Holiday On Horseback- Warner Guiding and Outfitting’’ tour. My family knew that I was personally going to enjoy this tour, the riding was an hour and a half long and they took us all up through the national parks mountains, trails, beside the lakes let’s just say they took us through the whole park basically. By the time we got back to the entrance of the park it was 4:30pm so we chose to start driving back to the hotel before it got to dark out. It was a long drive back to the hotel and we were too tired to even eat dinner so we did not bother phoning room service. I just can’t wait for tomorrow !!

Day 2~

My last and final day in Edmonton, for the last day we chose to go to Edmonton’s ‘’Valley Zoo’’. It took about 2 hours to get to the zoo but it’s worth the drive. The zoo is huge it has every animal you can possibly think of, it had many mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians (has more that 350 animals) The most interesting thing that I’ve learned about the zoo is that they mostly focussed on conservation for the animals. The zoo helps many animals from getting hurt and endangerd, we spent the whole day in the zoo because there was so much to learn on the different kinds of species, and many different animals to look at. The most enteraning thing that I've seen was the elephant show, the trianers made the elephants do tricks (like painting, standing on their heads and spraying the crowd with water and juggiling). By the time we wanted to go look at the tigers it was starting to get close to the closing time (4:00pm because it was a saturday). We started to drive back to the hotel and pack and get on the road to start driving to the next destination.