Our hotel is in Lake Louise Village, which is about 3 km from Lake Louise itself. The village is small, but it has many visitors in summer and winter.
We headed out to Lake Louise. This is a very attractive glacier fed lake, with an arc of high glacier-coated peaks around three sides of the lake. The iconic Fairmont Lake Louise hotel is at the open end of the arc.
It's all really attractive and there are plenty of people around even though the peak season has passed.
While all the photos show the Fairmont hotel as beautiful, these pictures are mostly when it is draped in snow - in fact, it's actually an unimpressive concrete file. However, this doesn't take away from the beauty of the lake and its surrounds - glacier coated peaks and green fir forests on the mountain flanks.
Moraine Lake is another attractive spot about 12 km away, and equally popular. It's another turquoise lake with surrounding mountains coated in glaciers and, lower down, green forests.
Everything is close here - we headed back to the village for lunch at a table by the local river.
The afternoon was exercise time. We drove back to Lake Louise and took the hiking trail to Lake Agnes. This is a 3.4 km track which rises about 400m above Lake Louise, with the track continually rising through the forest. The prize at the end is Lake Agnes and its Teahouse. Lake Agnes is a small and beautiful glacier fed lake, as is Mirror Lake a little distance below it.
The teahouse is perched on a ledge, with a great view to the head of Lake Louise and the Fairmont Hotel, as well as the land around for miles. They actually serve a great cup of tea, along with scones or chocolate cake, and you feel it is so much more worthwhile after the hike up the mountain. The hike filled our afternoon.
We had a pre-dinner drink, a good meal at the nearby pub and headed for an early night after the labours of the day.
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| Lake Louise |
It's all really attractive and there are plenty of people around even though the peak season has passed.
While all the photos show the Fairmont hotel as beautiful, these pictures are mostly when it is draped in snow - in fact, it's actually an unimpressive concrete file. However, this doesn't take away from the beauty of the lake and its surrounds - glacier coated peaks and green fir forests on the mountain flanks.
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| Moraine Lake |
Everything is close here - we headed back to the village for lunch at a table by the local river.
The afternoon was exercise time. We drove back to Lake Louise and took the hiking trail to Lake Agnes. This is a 3.4 km track which rises about 400m above Lake Louise, with the track continually rising through the forest. The prize at the end is Lake Agnes and its Teahouse. Lake Agnes is a small and beautiful glacier fed lake, as is Mirror Lake a little distance below it.
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| View from Lake Agnes Teahouse |
We had a pre-dinner drink, a good meal at the nearby pub and headed for an early night after the labours of the day.
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