Introducing Banff Town
Banff is a small alpine village, 138km west of Calgary, but you could also say that Calgary is some city near the center of the Canadian tourism universe – Banff. Every year, four million people come here to look at the mountains, ski, take the requisite photo of Banff Ave and pay too much for a hotel room, dinner and a beer. The upside to this popularity is that the sheer number of excited visitors means the atmosphere is festive; everybody seems to be on holiday. The town is the place to stay to explore the park; the plentiful accommodations, numerous places to grab a meal and volume of things to do make it the prototypical mountain town. The scenery is legendary and for the most part lives up to the hype.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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