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Photograph by Dan Westergren The traditional village at the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre in Osoyoos features a ceremonial pit house and sweat lodge. Taste the bounty of the Okanagan by ...
Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot have been standouts in the Okanagan Valley. Ripening is rarely an issue here, especially in the warmer, desert like portions of the valley. Hangtime can be a factor ...
Desert Hills is just one of nearly 50 wineries ... and sleepy small towns to booming midsize cities alongside 84-mile-long Okanagan Lake. Kelowna, the valley's urban center, is a boisterous ...
Most people don't even know Canada has a desert - the Okanagan is an anomaly in a country known for snow. But the Okanagan Desert is threatened - scientists and indigenous people are now working ...
A day in British Columbia's Thompson Okanagan region could begin in Canada's only true desert, include visiting a waterfall higher than Niagara (463-foot Helmcken Falls) or hiking in the planet's ...
decided to put roots down in the southwest-facing foothills of the Okanagan desert. Bai, who came to Canada when his children did their post-secondary schooling in Vancouver, approached Humbrecht ...
An award-winning South Okanagan museum showcasing miniature trains and figurines will permanently shut its doors after the Labour Day long weekend. The Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad is closing on ...
and backed by the stark landscape of the south Okanagan desert. On a day in late October, he took a group of visitors from the nearby Osoyoos Lake Water Science Forum to see the site. The syilx ...
Last week, his Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad museum won the annual Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice award for specialty museums. The U.S. online travel company says only 10 per cent of the ...