Medicine Hat Lodge

... touring. They are off to Alaska so we gave them plenty of tips for their journey. Left Wayne and started making our way down to Medicine Hat to spend the night. Once again a huge water slide in the hotel - a little too exposed for us to subject our ...

... can reach and sustain speeds of 50 km/hr. - During the summer months the buffalo hair is the shortest. Skins were taken for lodge covers, and numerous other articles were made from the soft, dressed skins. We left and decided to find a campground. We did ...

... nobody smokes.  Bonus.  We have dinner with the Irish couple, who happened to have lived in Canada for 5 years in Medicine Hat and Regina.  We go to a restaurant called Arnold’s and it is offering a free bottle of wine with ...

... at Phil's Restaurant and began our trip eastward towards home.  The mountains fell behind much too quickly and we entered the flat land of eastern Alberta.  Our overnight stay was in Medicine Hat and we had dinner at Kelsey's Bar & ...

... down the funniest comment ever heard during our stay in Fernie. "Tap Water, that's my sh*t" (This was said in reference to an act we checked out who came to us straight from Medicine Hat.) Well folks that is all from Fernie. Love and miss you ...

... , the British invented those - mainly from starvation and illness. If you swore allegience to England, you got better rations and medicine. Sick bastards. They, with a force of 450,000, were unable to contain or defeat an Afrikaaner force of about 30,000 ...

... the end of uni. For a change we turned left out of the lodge and it was a 3 hour journey in the sun to the medicine man! On anaconda watch Juan with hawk eyes spotted a number of snakes, one being particularly large and a little scary! When we got to the ...

... the bowl). Better than finding a quiet place in the bushes though! With the help of a translator, Delphin taught us about jungle medicine plants and it is amazing what he can fix with the stuff growing in his front yard! One morning he said ...

... 4 times a day), Chinatown (food stalls & cheap fakes), Little India (hundreds of material shops & stalls selling medicine for every problem possible - SlimmiTea, Herbal Viagra, Bleaching soap!!!) And last but by no means least, an over night ...

... , while I went on a nature walk with Cockatoo Paul who taught us about the local flora and what it could be used for (bush medicine/tucker etc), my favourite thing was how to make string if you're lost in the bush! Cockatoo Paul gets his name from his ...

... the Trail.. so the tour was boring and laborious. Got to Puno by 5 and had traditional orientation walk... decided to get some cough medicine to aid my chesty cough and had a little nap before dining with my 3 best pals from the tour - Matt and the Irish ...

... Which Prem finds highly amusing indeed. As the evening closes in, I smoke a little more of the mountain medicine which seems to be alleviating some off my stomach cramps. I'm still unable to digest any ...

... lake  way up in the mountains to collect a strange caterpillar plant grub that is sold and used in Chinese medicine, the caterpillars fetch ridiculously high prices making the difficult work of collecting them quite lucrative. We watched a family of ...

... gave them to the ladies. On our return to this village later that day the ladies thanked us through the translator for the good medicine. Always ready to help! We were in the process of booking flights to Luang Prabang the old capital of Laos but as this ...

... believed that the gods would be honoured by the chocolate-rich blood in their hearts - The rich hot chocolate drink used to be used as a medicine/pick me up, as well as to help people to sleep (how it did both I don't know, you would think it would do ...

... shoot rhinos and tigers. These animals are protected now, but are still poached for their skins and horns, mostly for use in Chinese medicine. The next day started with an elephant safari – I don’t think it would have been my first choice of ...

... very big trouble. There are some organizations and their workers you can only doff your cap to. Trish Mackenzie, a nurse for Medicine Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), is the only foreigner in a little village near the northern border of the ...