Especially when Yunluo found a row of wild hawthorns, he was overjoyed. Yunluo's OPPO camera phone finally came in handy. However, whether they are wild hawthorns remains to be investigated. However, they are really beautiful in appearance. So he walked back to the hotel slowly and had dinner in the restaurant.
deltavancouverairport features pier73restaurant, which offers live entertainment on selected evenings. hemispherenorthrestaurant serves breakfast and the fuelbaristabar is also located at the hotel.
Seeing the chalk drawings on the stone, I was impressed by the lifestyle of this kind. Yunluo thought that airport hotels are indeed a type of hotel with a very clear purpose. The guests who come and go are like "migrant birds" coming from different places, a transit or a rest. After dawn, they still need to continue their journey, and caring care is of course indispensable. But is this unexpected scenery a gift to Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo?
Picking up tickets at the airport is completely done on the device, and the location is already determined in advance, but you need to print out the luggage tags yourself according to the amount of luggage you have checked in.
I didn't have high expectations for a cheap flight like Westjet. In the end, I was given two drinks and snacks and one water during the four-hour flight, which was OK. However, I was very tired from sitting the whole time because the seats were too close together. After waiting for two hours at Edmonton Airport and flying for another hour and 20 minutes, I finally arrived at my destination, Yellowknife!
Yellowknife, also translated as Yellow Knife, is the capital of the Northwest Territories of Canada. Yellowknife has very different natural landscapes from the entire Northwest Territories, with vast wilderness, weathered mountains, rugged terrain, tranquil lakes, and leisurely wild animals... In the eyes of Canadians, Yellowknife is a pure continent that awakens people's body and mind. Starting from August, you can enjoy the northern lights in Yellowknife at night. The real and illusory red, blue, yellow, green, and purple aurora floats in the sky like gorgeous silk, which is extremely magnificent, and you can enjoy the aurora in a long dress. The climate is quite comfortable.
The airport terminal is like a bus station, with no sealed walkway connecting the plane and the terminal. I had been praying for clear weather before coming here, fearing that the thick clouds would block the aurora. When I walked out of the airport, I saw a big dark cloud.
In order to see the Northern Lights, they traveled all the way to Canada. Explorer Hotel Yellow Knife is the hotel where Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo stayed. The hotel was built in 1974 and renovated in 2006. It is the best hotel in downtown Yellowknife. It is also the place where Prince William and Princess Kate chose to stay this time. To be honest, it is not very luxurious, but thinking about the fact that the prince and princess have stayed here, it does seem to have a high status.
Actually, the whole city of Yellowknife is not very big, with only a few blocks, so you can walk around it quickly. In Yellowknife, there is also Oldtown where the aboriginals live. The local guide told Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo that the government paid a lot of money to support the aboriginals and even helped them clean the toilet pipes at home. Most of the aboriginals don't have jobs, and they live a carefree life.
The hotel lobby is not very big, but it is very warm. It is really warm. Because the winter in Yellowknife is really super cold. It is even colder than Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo Dadongbei, so there is a special design at the entrance of the hotel. It is almost isolated from the world. It is cold outside and warm and free inside. Therefore, for this iron-walled city, gorgeousness does not matter. It just needs to be enough for use. Imagine walking into the room from the extremely cold outdoors. The first feeling must be whether it is warm enough here and whether you can warm up instantly. It is definitely not to see whether the hotel lobby is luxurious enough as soon as you come in. Because the feeling of the physical store is more important than what the eyes see.
To suit the occasion. There is a particularly huge polar bear at the entrance of the hotel. This cute pet is really famous in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is basically in all tourism promotions and it is also included in the souvenirs you buy. The one at the entrance is super lifelike, and the hair is made very delicately, so many tourists will take photos with this big polar bear.
Speaking of iconic things, the stone man at the door cannot be ignored.
This "Welcome" stone shape has a very interesting origin. It is said that a long time ago, the aborigines always had to deal with all kinds of ferocious animals. When they went out hunting, they would mark the road they passed by to prevent themselves from getting lost. Because every time they went out to find prey, they had to walk a long way. This "Welcome" stone shape became their signpost. This thing could be seen in many places before. Later, cities were gradually built up, and there were fewer and fewer opportunities to go out hunting. The "Welcome" stone shape became the symbol of this area and gradually evolved into the meaning of "Welcome". Of course, with the development of tourism today, this thing has naturally become a tourist souvenir. The hotel puts this here as the bidder, and the meaning is very clear. It is for all guests who come from afar!
All guest rooms are equipped with free Wi-Fi. All guest rooms in the hotel are equipped with a flat-screen cable TV and an iPod docking station. Each air-conditioned guest room has a desk and a seating area. Of course, these are standard room features. In other bustling cities, you may not think this is a special service, but think about this small city dedicated to watching the aurora. It is really not easy for a hotel to meet these requirements.
Although it was yellowknife autumn when the clouds fell, the cold was really not to be underestimated. The warm hotel cabin really made people feel warm and comfortable from the bottom of their hearts. In the room, take a comfortable bath, turn on the stereo, and take a book. Although there is not much warm sunshine, thinking about the night sky with aurora passing through from time to time above the head, it is really a delicate time.
thehotelexplorer A fitness centre and business centre are available for guest use. For added convenience, an ATM machine is located on site. The hotel also has a business centre and ATM machine for added convenience. Fredhenerritorialpark is 4 km away. The Northern Frontier Visitors Centre Old Town and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre are just a 5-minute walk from the hotel. Cameron River Falls Rail, Cameron River Ramparts and Auro Ravalliage are only 25 minutes away. Check-in from 15:00:00 hours and check-out from 12:00:00 hours. Pets are allowed on request. Check-out policy, if the reservation is cancelled less than 2 days before the scheduled arrival date, the hotel will charge the first night's accommodation fee. If the reservation is not cancelled or even no show, the hotel will charge the first night's accommodation fee (in case of no show). There is no penalty for cancellation 2 days before the scheduled arrival date. This is the general hotel cancellation policy. Please note that cancellation policies may vary. Regarding extra beds for children, please verify before booking. Older children/adults can stay in the hotel at the price of CAD10 per person/night for extra beds. One child under 2 years old stays free of charge at the hotel.
After settling in the hotel, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo went to have dinner and took a walk.
The biggest feeling about Yellowknife is that this city is really small. It only takes a short while to walk around, and there is nothing special to buy or where to buy. The whole city is very quiet, with few people around, and most of them are tourists. Occasionally, you will see aboriginals who look like Asians on the street corners. They basically have no jobs and are supported by the government. When I heard this, Yunluo really wanted to be an aboriginal!
Yellowknife is located on the northern auroral oval, far from the ocean, and in the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains, with more sunny weather, so it has become one of the three major aurora viewing sites in the world. This was originally a gold prospector town, which prospered with the discovery of gold mines in the 1930s. Later, when the gold was mined out, it fell into decline, but later diamonds were discovered, so it continued to exist (this place is too good). So although the weather is not very good and it is far from anywhere, it still has a population of 19,000. The days in summer are too long to see the aurora, and there is too much rain and snow in autumn. Then go when the winter weather is "not too cold", so September is the best season. In fact, it will feel better in winter, but Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi are really afraid of the cold.
Take a walk in Yellowknife. There are cozy and warm houses on both sides of the road. The buildings are not high, and it is a small place with a lot of atmosphere. However, the weather here is really bad, and there are few sunny days. It is also very cold when it is cloudy, which is equivalent to winter when the clouds fall.
On the first night of the Aurora, Vida from "Yellowknife Travel" took Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo to the newly opened observation point to see it.
The place to see the aurora is half an hour's drive from the city, away from the city's light pollution. In fact, as a city, Yellowknife is really too small. The place to see the aurora is a two-story wooden house with a stove inside and a thermal couple above... (To be continued...)