A Desert in Canada?
Des(s)ert in Canada isn’t only Nanaimo bars and maple taffy at the cabane a sucre. Up here in the notoriously cold Great White North, the very tip of the long tongue of the Great Basin Desert sneakily licks up across the border from its birthplace down in the Sonoran Desert in Mexico. The town with the slogan “Canada’s warmest welcome” isn’t lying, with summer temperatures easily reaching 100 degrees. Perched up on a hill on Osoyoos Indian land is the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, a beautiful eco-friendly building of rammed earth, where interactive displays describe the endangered desert flora and fauna that abound along the walking trails that surround the centre. And if the heat gets to you, there is always ice cream for dessert in the luxurious hotel next door.
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Originally published on Trazzler
