The next day, we came to the historic Cave and Basin, the home of Canada's national parks. We thought it would be an extensive walking cave, but it was, in fact, a one-room sized cave, and a small basin pool. We were a tad disappointed with the Cave and Basin proper, but the area around the building was very interesting. There is a hot sulfur spring nearby that keeps much of the area warm throughout the year. There are tropical fish and plants (imported years ago) that survive the cold Alberta winters because of the spring.
Me and Mt. Rundle
This is the Bow River Falls. The Banff Springs hotel overlooks the falls. There were other tourists all around.
We took a gondola up Sulfur mountain, had lunch (We were again attacked by birds.), and hiked to the nearby peak.
The view from up there was spectacular.
Downtown Banff
On the roof of the gondola station on top of Sulfur Mountain, we found a lady who would take our picture, but would not step away from the door. The flags ringing the outlook point you in the direction of famous cities, along with their distance. Because of the Earth's curve, the shortest distance to the farther cities wasn't the way you would guess. Bombay, India was to the north, for instance.
And another picture of us
Looking back at the gondola station from the walk to the peak
