A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Wondering what is the best fall hike in Banff National Park? In my opinion it is the Larch Valley hike including Sentinel Pass. Make sure you don’t miss this Moraine Lake hike in fall! It was during my third visit to the Canadian Rockies that I finally got to experience a mountain autumn. I had […] Read more…
The Crypt Lake hike is a well-known day trail in the often overlooked Waterton Lakes National Park, located in Alberta, Canada. It is a difficult 17km return trail that gradually climbs over 700 metres in elevation. This trail is the most well-known of the Waterton hikes because it involves a bit of an obstacle course – […] Read more…
Did you know that such a thing as boiling lakes existed? I have seen small pools of boiling hot water in both Iceland and my home country of New Zealand but I never knew there were actual LAKES where the water was actively boiling. Turns out there is, and the second largest boiling lake in […] Read more…
As we glided through the still waters of Inle Lake, sitting local style, side by side on the bottom of the boat, I let the last three days of trekking through the mountains of northern Myanmar sink in. My body was weary but my heart was full. What we had just completed was extraordinary but […] Read more…
The first time I visited Denman Island I knew within days that it was special. Like with people, some places you just click with straight away and Denman Island was one of those places for me. It is one of my favourite places in the world, along with nearby Vancouver, and somewhere that I left […] Read more…
There are many, many beautiful hikes around Vancouver, one of the reasons I love this city so much. Over the years I have been steadily ticking different hikes off my list, a list that just keeps growing longer. One hike that I have been really wanting to do since I first heard about it the […] Read more…
After a stressful time on Greyhound buses involving late arrivals, rude bus drivers and an almost missed connection, we finally arrived in Chase, the closest town to the HI Squilax Hostel and General Store where we would be volunteering for two weeks. Trav and I signed up to a couple of websites, Workaway and Help X, […] Read more…
As our time in Vancouver was coming to an end, I started to feel anxious. Although I was excited about our road trip through the Rockies and the volunteering set up for after that, I couldn’t help but feel that the best part of the trip was over – this is the pull that this […] Read more…
To get from Toronto to Chicago involved 2 buses, numerous stops, an intrusive border crossing experience and a whole lot of time. I always dread having to cross into the US, especially by land. The US Border Guards are pretty much always nasty and incredibly self-important at the best of times, but the guy that […] Read more…
So our journey continued with a flight on Bolivia’s Military airline, TAM, from La Paz to Rurrenabaque. It was a bit too bumpy for my liking but in the 50 minutes we were flying the change in landscape was very dramatic. We flew over snow-capped peaks and milky turquoise lakes then dramatically the mountains dropped […] Read more…