On the way to Whistler

Before we took off and boarded the ferry back to the mainland, we shortly visited the rainforest trail in Tofino. An untouched natural reservoir who describes to visitors how this biosphere can survive on its own system:

First picture taken with the self-timer ;-)

Falling trees have crossed our trail. Watch your head!! According to the information-plates such falling trees are very important to keep the system of a rainforest in balance.

These trees are often about 800 years and so huge!

After approx. five hours of driving (ferry-time excluded) we arrived at Nita Lake Lodge in Whistler. Our hotel for the next four nights:

The first glimpse at this beautiful lodge

The view from our room 308 to the Nita Lake

The Nita Lake Lodge from the opposite site of the lake. (this picture was taken on a kayaking-tour)

Some impressions of the hotel room:  

On this occasion we would like to thank Mr. Schweizer from Travelhouse for the recommendation of the hotels. Also the accomodations in Vancouver (The Loden Hotel) as well as the ones in Victoria and Tofino were excellent and all with very good services. 

Besides playing golf, we took several times the bikes from the hotel to get around the Whistler area. We were really surprised how many people are riding bikes and how popular mountain biking is (nothing to compare to Switzerland).

 

As soon as we got an overview of this sporty village, we went uphill with our rental bikes to explore the downhill slopes of whistler mountain with our personal guide "Lukas". We were introduced in the basics of downhill racing. 

Ready to rock the hill!!

As we got around, we were impressed of the very nice and huge canadian houses. This region is definitely a place for wealthy people. ;-) 

The view of the Whistler Golf Club (hole 10 ;-)

The beautiful Alta Lake. Yesterday with 31 degrees we had a chilling afternoon at the beach.