Canadian Rail Pass, Where to go?

Question

I'm purchasing the North American Rail pass from Amtrak for the month of August. This allows me unlimited travel for 30days on Amtrak and Canada's VIA rail system. I'll be departing from the San Francisco Area on the Coast Starlight which I'll take to Seattle, then Vancouver,B.C. From there I want to take a line that goes all the way to Toronto and eventually to Nova Scotia. I have no set plans, so where should I go? What should I see, where to stop?? I'm a 25 year old student, female and will be traveling alone. While I'm not on a tight budget, I would like to be a but frugal with it, so fancy hotels are out of the question. I'm into geology so places with great rocks would be key. Where do you suggest and why??

-I've been to banff and jasper briefly

- Nova Scotia was beautiful and I definately plan to go back

- Never been to the Canadian Plains! What's out there?

Answer 1

Are u only open goin 2 places directly on the rail line in Canada?

Here are some places (look them up on wikipedai.org OR my fav wikitravel.net)

Must-go's haev stars*

Victoria/Nanimo**

Vancouver**

Lake Louise**(beutiful..the lake is Bright Green-Blue)

Calgary

(Praries can be actaully quite boring..For me, )

Ottawa

Toronto*

Montreal*

Quebec City*

Gaspé

Halifax*

BTW Alberta has a lot of geology stuff

try Drumheller home of

Drumheller and Dinosaur Provincial PArk home of the largest T-rex ...

herese a pic link

http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/images/pi...

remember wikitravel.net! It rly helps

What do you want to see? City Scene, Natural Atractions, Cute small town?

:)