Southern Alberta Indigenous Tour | 2-Day Cultural Experience

An unforgettable journey awaits you

Embark on a travel experience that will stay with you forever. We offer a blend of culture, adventure, and tranquility, ensuring every moment is filled with wonder. Whether you’re seeking thrill or relaxation, we create journeys that are truly unforgettable.

The journey Begins

Day 1

This morning you will be picked up in clagary at 9:00 am and start your Adventure. Welcome to Siksika Nation. Arrive at Blackfoot Crossing to step back in time and explore the Blackfoot culture. Receive a guided tour and experience exhibits that will provide you with cultural and educational information with accuracy about the rich and unique spiritual foundation and survival of the Blackfoot People. Learn about the lifestyle of the Blackfoot people, the Blackfoot Treaty, the Powwow dance, and traditional cooking. We will enjoy an authentic Indigenous Lunch before departing. We will continue our journey south. Our first experience will be a visit to the Insikim Umaapi, known as the Alberta Medicine Wheel. Here you will enjoy a brief talk on the history. Next, travel to southern Alberta to Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. Enjoy a guided tour into the Archaeological Preserve at Writing-on-Stone/ Áísínai’pi, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The cultural landscape integrates the natural environment, cultural features, human experiences, and spiritual perceptions into one. In this unique setting, Indigenous people came for centuries and recorded their experiences and visions on the sandstone cliffs of the Milk River Valley. This extensive rock art collection depicts generations of knowledge, traditions, and history. See where the history, stories, and language of the Niitisippi people are woven together to provide insight into the meaning of the carvings (petroglyphs) and paintings (pictographs).

Overnight: Lethbridge

Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Day 2

Enjoy breakfast in the hotel this morning before checking out start moving north. You will arrive at Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump, a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site. The Interpretive Centre preserves and interprets over 6,000 years of Plains Buffalo Indigenous culture. Through vast landscapes, exhibits, and diverse programming, you will learn from a Blackfoot Nations guide about the cultural significance of this cliff to the Plains People. From the Interpretive Centre, venture out along a paved trail that leads you to spectacular views of Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Cliff, Calderwood Buffalo Jump & Vision Quest Hill to the north, the great prairies to the east, and the Rocky Mountains to the south. We’ll take a short drive south to see Alberta’s Big Rock. It is a boulder weighing 16,500 metric tonnes and 9 meters high, broken into two large pieces in the middle, sitting alone in a field. The Big Rock resembles nothing around it, except for a few scattered smaller boulders of the same type. There is no layer of rock from which it could have eroded or cliff it could have fallen from. This massive rock has sat in its field for as long as human beings have lived in Alberta. The Niitsitapii (Blackfoot) people saw that it did not belong and told a legend of how it came to be where it rests today. Learn of this legend. Return to drop off in Downtown Calgary. (ETA 4:00pm)

Meals: Breakfast

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What’s Included

Round-trip transportation from Calgary
Blackfoot Crossing immersive experience
Guided tours at UNESCO Heritage Sites
Meals as listed (Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast)
Overnight accommodation in Lethbridge
Professional Tour Leader
Local tax - GST

What’s Not Included

Personal expenses and optional activities
Travel insurance

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Tour Questions

Anderson Vacations specializes in Small Group Fully Escorted tours. If the tour is classified as a ‘Classic Tour’ up to 24 persons may join the tour although tours commonly travel with anywhere between 18 to 24 travellers. If the tour is classified as a 'Tour of Distinction’ only up to 18 persons may join the tour and many 'Tours of Distinction' travel with 12 to 18 travellers.

After dreaming about travel to an exciting destination, arranging for time off work, booking your flights the last thing you need is for your trip to be cancelled. Anderson vacation's pre-Guaranteed tours take the uncertainty away from planning your travel and give you peace of mind to book our tours. Pre-Guaranteed Tours are group tours that we have already confirmed as certain to travel on the specified date. All 'Guaranteed Tours' will travel except in the event of a natural disaster or a catastrophic event that is beyond our control. They may already have the minimum number of people booked or else are tours that are known to be popular. Only select departures of tours are 'pre-Guaranteed'.

We pride ourselves on providing “a small shared group experience.” In the event that we have fewer than ten participants on a tour we will offer a “small-group surcharge” to ensure that the tour runs as scheduled. This fee, which is up to 15% of the “land” portion of the tour, will be offered to you as an option to continue with the trip. This fee will cover the costs associated with handling a smaller group.

Our tours are suitable for all age demographics. The average age of travelers is typically 45+.

Some tours are mainly coach based and may not be physically demanding while others may require walking inclines or on rough surfaces to access interesting locations. Please check with us and your booking agent carefully and discuss your mobility restrictions before completing any tour booking to ensure this style of travel is right for you.

Yes, we do accommodate dietary restrictions (within reason) such as, food allergies, vegan, vegetarian, etc. There are many meals included on our fully escorted tours. Please inform us of any dietary restrictions at the time of booking so we can ensure there are alternative meal choices.

Booking & Flight Questions

Yes, we can assist you with airport transfers for you in most locations at a reasonable extra cost. Several tours have airport transfers already included. Please contact us for more details.

Yes, we can certainly assist with booking additional nights of hotel accommodation for you before and after your fully escorted tour. This is available upon request and subject to availability. Please inquire for further information and prices.

Each passenger may bring one large suitcase and one carry-on bag. The weight limit for baggage is 20 kilograms or about 40 pounds. Baggage handling is provided at the hotels in our tour packages but there may be places where you will be required to wheel in your bags for quicker access. Be sure to advise our reservations staff if you will be bringing additional items such as a cane, walker, or wheelchair. You may also bring one small soft-sided carry-on bag, which should easily fit into the overhead shelf of a coach. Each person is responsible for his/her own carryon luggage. Remember to check your airline baggage restrictions if you are flying, as they may differ from Anderson Vacations guidelines.

There are options for single travelers to join most tours. Solo travellers can choose to pay a Single Supplement and have their own room throughout the tour. For those willing to share with a co-traveller of the same gender, we have a Twin Share option that is offered for most tours where you share a hotel room with another same gender traveller. In this case, you will not be charged for Single Supplement.

Yes, it is possible to book triple share accommodations on select trips. Please inquire or contact us regarding this option, as prices and availability vary from tour to tour.

Yes, you can! Anderson Vacations works with many private groups and helps to customize a tour to traveller’s needs. Please contact us for more details.

For convenience, gratuities for local guides and meals that are specified in the itinerary are included in the tour price. For meals not included in your tour package please remember that it is customary to tip your server 10-20% in North America. Gratuities for your Coach Driver (where appropriate) and Tour Director are entirely at your discretion. We recommend about CDN $5.00 per person, per day, for your Driver and CDN$7.00 per person, per day for your Tour Leader.

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