Then you arrive. Alberta’s sparkling capital Edmonton boasts North America’s largest shopping and entertainment complex, including a giant water park, over 800 shops, more than 110 places to eat, 21 cinemas, a casino, a man-made lake, amusement park, two mini-golf courses…

And, of course, you can stampede into Calgary. More than a million people do every year, to be thrilled by a huge parade and the most famous rodeo in the world. Surely one of the major highlights on your luxury, tailor-made holiday to Canada? And you still have Banff National Park with its therapeutic hot springs and glacier tours to come. Plus a whole range of outdoor adventures around Jasper, and helicopter flights over the glaciers at Lake Louise. Alberta also has dinosaurs – 40 of them at Drumheller’s prestigious Royal Tyrrell Museum.