• Banff is the sightseeing base in the south of Canadian Rocky and became the center of Banff National Park by chance when a railway worker found the hot spring in 1883. It takes two hours by car from the Calgary airport to Banff. The airport limousine has Brewster and the Rocky Mountain Sky Shuttle.

• Banff is a town in Banff National Park of vast 6641km2. 6641km2 is a huge park that becomes as much as 120km in length when assuming 50km in width. The most has been left naturally. It is said that the road will become as much as 1600km in the total extension. There is a limitation where the building of the four floor or more is not allowed to be built because the town is in the park of nature. The town has composed mainly by Banff Main Street of 400m in center which expands to north-south, and the population is only 8,000 people.

Typical picture postcard scenery from the Cascade Garden to Cascade Mountain	A bird flies on Bow River	Cascade Mountain is clearly seen	Banff Main Street Expands toward Cascade Mountain
Banff Main Street is wide	It is like walking toward Cascade Mountain	Cascade plaza is the biggest shopping mall in Banff	Buildings are allowed three floors or less
Clear Cascade Mountain 2998m	Back street and Cascade Mountain	Saint Mary church	A white wagon fits for sightseeing
Rundle Mountain 2948m	Bridge of Bow River and Rundle Mountain	Sheer Rundle Mountain	Brewster Bus station of Banff
Bow River and Rundle Mountain	Bow River is effusing of the melting glacier, and flour, that the glacier has ground, reflects light in blue
Gondola of four people	It reaches top of Sulphur Mountain of 2285m		Town of Banff is seen underneath
Bighorn sheep in mountain range	Mountains in Rocky seen from the top of Sulphur Mountain

2007/04/01