On the first day of the tour we went to Lake Louise the most photographed lake in the rockies! The day we go it is cloudy and raining but it is still a pretty lake just not the same as the pictures that you see. We hiked up 3.5km to Lake Agnes and the tea house that is on one of the mountains. Passing the mirror lake on the way up. Then came all the way back down and had a look inside the famous Lake Louise Chateau it is very fancy but it is in the middle of nowhere and to get anywhere you would need to drive or hike. Lake Louise also has the most expensive groceries store in the rockies, just as well we stop in banff. Our van broke down just as we parked in Lake Louise so while we where hiking they tried to fix it without any luck so we had to get a replacement van which was about an hour away when we met back up in Lake Louise, so we ended up just walking the 3km to the village and looking around the shops until they got everything swapped around. That night we stayed in the first wilderness hostel of the trip - no electricity or running water! Got used to going to long-drops by the end of the trip. The hostel did however have a sauna! So we all went to the sauna and then when it got too hot you ran out to the creek and covered yourself in cold water from the glaciers lake and then ran back to the sauna. It was more fun than I thought it was going to be. We also went looking for the beaver dam that was down the road but we couldn't find it as went the wrong way, saw it the next morning and would properly of walked by it if actually went the right way.
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