Another early start today we had to get the hire car back to Banff for 1 pm when the office closes. We got away at 8.40 am and drove the Icefields Parkway again. We made a couple of quick stops, at the Athabasca falls and the Columbia Icefield viewpoint. Opposite there is a big centre where you can go out in an all-terrain ice explorer that drives over the ice but this seems inappropriate when it is fragile.
We kept motoring and enjoyed seeing the mountains from the opposite direction. The road signs are in French and English so it's also called 'Promenade des Glaciers'. Apparently there are more than 100 on the parkway including 6 major toe glaciers visible from or near the route.
We made it to Banff for about 12.30 pm and went to the Fairmont to deliver the car back. We then got a bus back to the town centre and ate tasty lunch at Nourish.
At 3.30 pm we got the FlixBus to Calgary downtown which took a couple of hours. We checked into the hotel and have had nibbles from our cool bag. We're on the eleventh floor and the view is very different to the Rockies! On the right is the Calgary Tower which is 190 meters tall - not as high as The Shard at 309.
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