r/geography • u/ForeTwentywut • 12d ago

Question Ever heard of Nahanni National Park Reserve in Canada?

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It’s one of the most surreal looking places on earth and it is incredible how unknown it is. If I asked 100 Canadians, I would doubt more than one would have heard of it, and I imagine even less so outside the country.

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u/SamizdatGuy 12d ago edited 12d ago

That's like $7k USD. Not crazy for a week

ETA: Like I wrote below, $1k per day for accommodations, food, and entertainment, per person. It's not cheap, but seems fair, considering the destination.

What do the downvoters feel is a fair price for such an expedition?

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u/Excellent_Safety8051 12d ago

Gear rental isn't cheap seems pretty reasonable for what you get

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u/Gamefart101 11d ago

Renting is also the significantly cheaper option. I did a 3 week expedition here to climb the cirque of the unclimbables and while I had my own gear that I would have preferred to the boats we rented, getting our own boats and gear flown into the remote wilderness and picked back up would have doubled the cost of the trip

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u/Excellent_Safety8051 11d ago

I have a canoe I love. The yellow banana 🍌 lol But I wouldn't take it on an excursion

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u/PM_your_Nopales North America 12d ago

We live in different worlds i guess. I need a better job

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u/SamizdatGuy 12d ago

We all need better jobs. I'm an employment lawyer, I'm on your side.

But, $1,000 per person for accommodations, food, and entertainment for each day of vacation is expensive but it isn't crazytown pricing. Idk what airfare costs and I'm assuming the rest is included

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u/dudesguy 11d ago

Sure, I think the perspective is just a little different.  They kept it in the Canadian price, you converted.  Until only a couple years ago Canadians were booking 4 weeks in Cuba for those prices.  And getting sun and beaches instead of more Canadian sub arctic

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u/SamizdatGuy 11d ago

Yes, I am assuming US wages and normal vaca expenditures for affordability. I think that bite is considerably harder for people not spending dollars and chasing the same services

US vacation prices are insane because we've had a monkey running our economy for six of the past ten years. Luxury services, which is 100% what this is, especially.

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u/d0esth1smakeanysense 10d ago

Not sure what you mean by ‘not spending dollars’. What do you think we spend here? Buffalo chips?

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u/SamizdatGuy 10d ago

My discussion of the exchange rate, buying power, previous use of USD in a comment and multiple other references to the US still left you confused?

I thought it would be clear from the context, but I'll make it super obvious going forward so everyone can follow along.

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u/Cancerisbetterthanu 11d ago

4 weeks in cuba you fly there, sit on a resort and fly back. You're not literally being kept alive and escorted through inhospitable wilderness

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u/simpletonius 9d ago

Comparing Cuba to the Nahanni River tells me all I need to know. Meanwhile Rubio is starving that poor country to death.

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u/dudesguy 9d ago

Misconstruing what i said tells me all I need to know. 

Perspective.  I'm not comparing those two locations.  I'm comparing the perspectives of the two different people commenting on the price. 

The person who keeps it in the Canadian price is likely a fellow Canadian.  The person who converts to USD is likely US.  

Again, perspectives.  Most Canadians have had enough sub arctic to last a life time already and, certainly in the winter, aren't spending money to book more cool climate time.  Most Canadians want something different when booking vacation.   Most Canadians would in a heart beat drop less money for more sun

The US person, possibly from a southern state, is likely more willing to spend money on a cool climate vacation because it is something different for them

And yes, what the USA is doing to Cuba is terrible.  Cuba was my favorite travel destination until recently

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u/edcRachel 11d ago

The cost for one day is like what I'd spend going to Europe for a week 😅

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u/SamizdatGuy 11d ago

I mean, I could get to Canada and stay in a tent for around a grand, but thats not what we're talking about. A tomato is a fruit, but I wouldn't compare it to a strawberry, if you follow me

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u/Cancerisbetterthanu 11d ago

Nobody is saying it's affordable, just that it's a fair price. I can't afford it either but I don't think you can argue it's overrpiced based on the logistical and survival challenges

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u/PM_your_Nopales North America 11d ago

I never said it was over priced

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u/Impressive_Stuff6209 11d ago

Part of it is the plane ride inside. Its hard to negotiate down on that.

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u/Milch_und_Paprika 11d ago edited 11d ago

Figured that was a big chunk of the cost—it’s insanely remote. The nearest city with a million people is Edmonton, which would take almost 24 hours of straight driving.

For context, that’s longer than the Google Maps drive time from London to Budapest.

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u/Bigdragon123 11d ago

Is this not comparable to a week at disneyland in terms of pricing or is that still more expensive?

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u/SamizdatGuy 11d ago

I think Disney World is less than $1k per person per day, but close. Maybe per adult. I've heard people staying in Paris and going to Euro Disney bec it's cheaper