Canada
Whether you’re hardcore adrenaline junkie, a wildlife enthusiast or a city slicker looking for cutting edge culture, Canada ticks all the boxes. The world’s second largest country racks up an astonishing diversity of landscapes; vast prairies rise abruptly to glacier-topped mountains; rugged unspoiled coastlines give way to immense forests and emerald lakes; and Arctic waters lap upon frozen tundra. Incredibly, this wilderness is also home to cosmopolitan cities, quirky towns and remote indigenous settlements.
Canada’s people are as varied as the landscapes; from the Arctic Inuit and the Francophone Quebeckers to the British expatriates and burgeoning Asian community, this is a multicultural land where around 20% of the population are foreign-born.
Canadian cities are progressive, vibrant and regularly feature on lists of “best places to live”. Toronto, a veritable patchwork of charming neighbourhoods, has an idyllic beachside location on the shore of Lake Ontario, while Canada’s capital city Ottawa, contains a clutch of fantastic museums and the pretty Rideau Canal for the ice skating in winter. Montreal’s skyscrapers belie its French heritage,l but look closer and you can stumble upon historic, cobbled streets and centuries old customs.
A stone’s throw from the Canadian Rockies, booming Calgary flashes of its oil wealth and flaunts its cowboys traditions during the annual boot-stomping stampede. Chilled-out Vancouver, meanwhile seems to have it all; mountains, beaches and incredible downtown park and a cosmopolitan dining scene. Across the Georgia Strait Vancouver Island is just the tonic if the city life gets too tough. Not that it ever does.
For something wilder, Ski steep chutes in British Columbia, Kayak scheduled bays with whales in Nova Scotia or learn to lasso at an Albertan ranch. Capture grizzlies on camera in the Yukon. Watch mammoth icebergs drift past the Newfoundland Coast, or soar over Niagara Falls in a helicopter. Tour vineyards, dig for claims or feel giddy gazing at the Northern Lights. In Canada, it seems, the options are endless.
Mont Tremblant Quebec
Tremblant in summer is a sensory treasure chest. Crisp mountain air perfumed by freshly baked bread and mighty coffee wafts throughout the colourful pedestrian village-the greens of nature the ideal backdrop for the village's lipstick-red and powder-blue roofs.
