Drumheller

The drive was pleasant, the roads here are so wide and flat and very quiet even over the long week-end. We travelled for part of the time on the trans Canada highway which is dual carriageway and very fast. Driving along the highway the miles of prairies suddenly give way to steep, dry coulees ridged with the strata of hundreds of years of erosion. Drumheller is located in a valley in the heart of the Canadian Badlands, so called because they were difficult lands for explorers to cross. The valley at this time of year looked more like a canyon and definitely a place dinosaurs existed.

When we arrived the first thing we did was check out 'the World's Largest Dinosaur'
In this photo you can see how tall he is, our car looks like a matchbox toy beside him. That is the Tourist Information Centre on the left.

We climbed up inside him and looked out of his mouth. It was freezing up there. His jaw also moved heaps in the wind as he is flexible. I didn't get it in the photo but next door was an aquatic centre with an outdoor pool that had completely frozen over.