PHOTOGRAPH: ROCKY MOUNTAINEER
1 TAKE THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL RAILWAY TRIP
The builders of the Canadian Pacific Railway might have preferred it if all of the country looked like its prairie provinces. Happily for sightseers, the Rocky Mountains put a mighty obstacle in their way. On Rocky Mountaineer trains, carriages are built with as much window space as possible to show off vast forests rising to glacier-carved peaks and young rivers whose meltwater is shaded a dazzling blue. A sense of occasion is never far away on this trip, whether it’s a bagpiper sending the trains off at Vancouver, to the castle-like turrets of grand railway hotels built a century ago. On Rocky Mountaineer routes, passengers are let off for the night to stay in a hotel, but if you want the full sleeper experience, you can also book The Canadian – a train taking the northern route through the Rockies and reaching Toronto in three days. rockymountaineer.com; viarail.ca