Wild West MacKenzie Trail

"The trekking holiday in Canada through the beautiful scenery of the Rainbow Range, with its amazing colours and stunning views, is an experience that I will never forget.”

Jon Lugg, Mackenzie Trail, 2005

This is a unique trekking holiday in Canada with packhorses and cowboys travelling through remote and seldom traveled areas. The journey links into the Mackenzie trail, the route originally taken by the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean overland through the Rocky Mounatains.

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS

• Wildlife viewing – caribou, marmots, bald eagles, grizzly and black bears
• A genuine wild west trekking holiday in Canada
• Pristine and remote wilderness
• Following ancient trading trails and route of Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean overland.
• Native Indian cultural tour to Native 5000 year old native rock carvings
• The spectacular mountain scenery
• Salmon spawning and bear watching with a local biologist
• Visiting the remote wilderness frontier town of Bella Coola

This trekking holiday in Canada begins in Vancouver where your guides will meet you before heading overland to the Chilcotin plateau from where you will trek through the Rainbow Range, into the Coastal Mountains, through alpine meadows and lakes and descend into the forests of the Bella Coola Valley Alexander Mackezie becamethe first explorer to reach thePacific Ocean overland.

Once in the Bella Coola valley relax on a river drift down the Bella Coola River through temperate rainforest, as bald eagles circle over head in the shadow of snow-capped peaks. Go snorkeling with salmon, take a cultural tour with local Native Indians and watch Grizzly bears fishing.

This trekking holiday in Canada starts and ends in Vancouver, a great introduction to the west coast, with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere and stunning setting of Pacific Ocean and backdrop of Coastal Mountains.