| Featured City: Calgary | Calgary of Canada is a plateau city, whose altitude is 1062 meters, and has fairly dry weather.
Overlook the city of Calgary from the airplane, you will find that its geography rises and falls all over the place, all the constructions locate at the fluctuant hillside. The Bow River flows through from the center of the city. You will also have a vaguely scene of the stretching Rockies.
Calgary means "the water of the pure fluxion" in Indian. The city has been founded more than 130 years ago. In 1914, people discovered petroleum at the bottom of the valley. Then the city quickly became "the energy center" of Canada, too.
Calgary is very square city just like a rectangle. All the streets and avenues are situated either from east to west or from north to south, so even people who do not have strong sense of direction will not easily get lost. The Tenth Street is commercial area located in the central city with crowed buildings. While walking in the street, you will feel like to walk through the narrow slot constitutes of cement and glass.
Calgary is filled with romantic feeling of North America. All of them will be found from the advertisement at the street corner, living style or far-flung campo, galloped courser, Western ranchers¡ Walking into a restaurant, especially some small bars, you will also have the sentimental sense of appealing of western region. Dark light, western style decorations, paintings and photographs lead a romantic environment. Most meals cannot get away from steak and roasts.
Annually July, at the session of the Calgary Exposition and the Shepherd Boy Technical Game, all the residents rush out of their home, dancing and singing willingly in the streets wearing like buckaroos. Cowboys coming from North America and South gather here to compete with each other. The day is called "the pasture carnival". It attracts numerous world-wide locations of visitors to go to have the scene.
As a world center of ice-sports, Calgary held the 15th Winter Olympics successfully in 1988. If you are keen on skating, you should definitely not lose the chance to have a try of skating there.
Calgary is only 130 kilometers apart from the Banff National Park which is the largest and most famous national park in Canada. It has already been ranked to be the world natural heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. The park covered more than 6641 square kilometers, which is full of natural beauties, high mountains, forests, glaciers, lakes, rivers... Especially wonderful sheer apexes and pure lakes at the foot of the glaciers looking like clear mirror make people totally relax and happy in heart, as if go into the fairyland of fantasy.
There are more than 60 perfect hotels and hostels with different styles and costs. You will absolutely find one of them that suit you. Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites needs 119.99CAD-129.99 CAD per day for a single room. Calgary Macleod Trail Travelodge Hotel is little cheaper which will cost you 73.94-149.99CAD per day. The Carriage House Inn, four-star, provides excellent service but only needs 94-198CAD per day.
The transportation in Calgary is very convenient. Vehicles such as bus, metro, taxi are extraordinary prosperous. It guarantees you could go everywhere in the city quite quickly.
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