On your guided tour visit the City Hall, Chinatown, Rogers Centre, Casa Loma Castle and panoramic from the CN Tower.

Travel around Lake Ontario to Niagara Falls. Stop at Niagara on the Lake see the Greenhouse, Whirlpool and Clock. After lunch, don a raincoat and board the “Maid of the Mist” Cruise, for a close spectacle of the Falls.

Travelling along Lake Ontario to Kingston and the 1000 Islands which dot the St Lawrence River for miles. Cruise the quaint Islands of the Admiralty group, Napoleon’s Hat, Wanderer’s Channel, the Bateau Channel, Mandalay Mansion and historic Kingston. Leisurely boardwalk stroll or join an optional trolley tour.

On arrival in Ottawa your guided tour will include the Parliament Buildings, Rideau Hall, Rideau Canal, Notre Dame Cathedral. Leisurely visit to the Byward Market. Optional performance at the Arts Centre.

Visit the National Gallery, a visual Arts Museum. We board the train to Montreal and a guided tour of the French Quarter, Old Montreal, Notre Dame Cathedral, St Joseph’s Oratory and panorama from Mount Royal. Tonight’s dinner with entertainment will be at the Festin du Gouverneur, evoking past colonial feasts.

Travel through beautiful countryside following the St Lawrence River to Quebec City. Meander the narrow streets lined with boutiques and cafes, the French influence is palpable.

Your guided tour includes Parliament Building, the Citadel, Place d’Armes, the Plains of Abraham. Excursion to Montmorency Falls, views of St Lawrence River and the City. Tonight’s farewell dinner will be at a traditional Sugar Shack.

Your tour comes to an end after breakfast.

Ferry crossing to Vancouver Island and a short drive to Victoria. Tour this elegant old world city with unique architecture, spectacular gardens and harbour. Join an optional whale watching tour.

Stroll through the beautiful Butchart Gardens. Return by Ferry then travel along the “Sea to Sky” Highway through the valley of the Cheakamus and where it plunges over an escarpment at Brandywine Falls. Arrive in Whistler, home to jagged peaks, glistening lakes and lush coastal forests, saunter through the village and the sites of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Explore Vancouver a delightful city with its Stanley Park, Chinatown and English Bay. Visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge, note the cedar scented rainforest air as you make your way across famous landmarks.

Today we take in the varied scenery of the Cariboo Plateau. Arrive at Sun Peaks Resort, a European style village complete with bell tower. Stroll through the narrow streets lined with welcoming restaurants and quaint shops.

Following the blue-green North Thompson River, as it weaves through forests of cedar, fir and spruce. View Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Rockies on the way to your hotel in the quaint town of Jasper. Remainder of the day is at leisure or join an optional Athabasca River trip.

Ride the Jasper Tram up Whistler Mountain to Jasper National Park’s alpine tundra and breakfast at the top. We walk down Maligne Canyon, view spectacular mountain crevices carved by the water. Drive to Lake Maligne the largest natural lake in the Rocky Mountains.

Travel through the spectacular highways of the Icefields Parkway. It’s unsurpassed mountain scenery paralleling the Great Divide, see typical fauna and the powerful Athabasca Falls. Ride the Ice Explorer, for a close up of Athabasca Glacier, then to the summit of Bow Pass to Peyto Lake and the Mistaya River Valley.

On to the famous Bow Valley Parkway and an easy walk at Johnston Canyon studded with waterfalls. Along Lake Louise surrounded by glaciers and the nearby Morraine Lake hemmed in by mountain peaks. Cross the Continental Divide where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans divide into the Yoho National Park with sublime views. Visit Takakkaw Falls (higher than Niagara Falls) and Emerald Lake with blue-green glacial water glistening.

Explore Banff, stop at the historic landscapes of Cascade Gardens and Bow Falls. Watch the towering mountains disappear as you travel east to Calgary, nestled at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Farewell dinner at your hotel.

On your guided tour Calgary we visit Chinatown, Au Claire Market, Kensington District. Then an elevator ride for unsurpassed views of the Rocky Mountains from Calgary Tower, walk “out into space” by venturing onto the new glass floor for a direct view of the city below. Afternoon transfer to the Airport.

Meet your guide at breakfast. Travel through Edmonton, a city that maintains it ties to the Klondike past. Then through beautiful Northern Alberta, with its grandiose lakes, mighty rivers, abundant wildlife and untapped wilderness.

Travel the great northern prairie region of Alberta. En route to Dawson Creek we stop at Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway. Then into British Columbia’s picturesque Peace Country with its abundance of natural history and cultivated landscape.

Cross the Nisutlin Bay Bridge into Teslin, Yukon. En route to Whitehorse note the lakes’ reflection of the mountain ranges. On arrival tour Miles Canyon, the Fish Ladder and the SS Klondike Historic Site. Night out at Whitehorse Frantic Follies.

On the Klondike Highway we pass Lake Laberge, view the Carmacks Interpretive River Front Boardwalk and the beautiful Five Finger Rapids. Arrive at Dawson City, the site of the Klondike Gold Rush. Tonight, Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall awaits you, the most unique and oldest Casino in Canada with can-can dancers.

We visit a Gold Mining Dredge, one of the largest wood hulled, bucket line dredges and pan for your own fortune. Leisurely afternoon as you relive gold rush crazed Dawson City.

North to Alaska! Travel the “Top of the World Highway” stop at the town of “Chicken” named after the Ptarmigan that resembles a chicken. On to the Village of Tok, where the Eagle Trail crosses the Tanana River and Sternwheelers once plied the River.

Stop by Santa Claus House, North Pole on the way to Fairbanks, the hub of Alaska. Cruise the Chena and Tanana Rivers on the Sternwheeler Discovery. See a plane take off from a “bush” runway, witness the “wedding of the rivers,” and an insight into the ancient Athabascan Indian culture on a personalised tour of the Chena Indian Village. Baked salmon dinner and show at Alaskaland.

Feast your eyes as we travel to Nenana through the Denali National Park, the famed Alaska Range and Mt McKinley (the highest peak). We continue to your hotel in the quaint town of Wasilla, a paradise and host of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

At an Alaskan Husky dog kennel, view the Iditarod video, then tour a kennel and have fun with 10-20 pups on the wilderness trail. Visit the Alaska Native Heritage Centre hear the tales through songs, stories and dancing. Dinner, inside a Goldmine at the Sourdough Mining Co with storyteller Dusty Sourdough!

Cruise the Prince William Sound with a professional Naturalist Guide. The vessel hugs the coastline as icebergs glide by. Pulling into a bay the vessel floats up to a 1700ft high, active tidewater glacier! See otters, eagles, puffins, sea lions, whales and glacier-wildlife. This is wild, dramatic Alaska up close!

We transfer to the pier at Seward and board either the Holland America M/S Veendam or M/S Statendam for your cruise through the inside passage. Expected departure is at 20.00.

Your grand experience comes to an end after breakfast with an early morning arrival in Vancouver the tour will end at Canada Place.

Meet your guide at breakfast then travel through Edmonton, Capital of Alberta a city with a Klondike past. Watch the beauty unfold, view grandiose lakes, mighty rivers, abundant wildlife and untapped wilderness.

Across the great northern prairie en route to Dawson Creek, stop at Mile “0” of the Alaska Highway, then we continue to British Columbia’s picturesque Peace Country with its natural history and landscapes.