A visit to the historic Canadian city also includes spending the night in a First Nation people’s longhouse and exploring 17th century buildings.
I had a Ski-Doo Accident shortly before I bedded down in a spectacular sub-zero spaceship made entirely of ice and snow. That’s the cold truth.
Although day visitors can tour the entire property , braver folks hunker down until morning . Along with fellow slumbering guests, I attended a “mandatory training session” — the crucial fashion tip was no cotton and thin layers so you don’t perspire which makes you cold in your sleeping bag. To prep for bed, I sat on my covered mattress, which was atop an ice spaceship, and reached to put my phone on the end table except it was all ice, before I clumsily stuck my foot to the frost-biting floor while changing into non-sweaty clean socks. Then I laid out flat, wiggled accidentally backwards into the hooded fleece “mummy” bag and after that squirmed into a cocooning North Face sleeping bag I next futilely tussled with because I had the hood, neck velcro and zipper turned around.
The Huron-Wendat are First Nation peoples and I was delving into their rich culture at a unique complex: the Hotel-Musee Premieres Nation on the banks of the Akiawenrahk River. Under one roof is a contemporary-earthy 55-room lodge , an impressive museum , storytelling sessions, craft workshops and a fine-dining restaurant run by a Michelin-starred French chef keen on the Indigenous terroir.
Returning to the hotel, it was almost my bedtime in the adjacent, isolated Ekionkiestha’ National Longhouse, a replica of the rustic Wendat dwellings in pre-colonial days before 1534. As I sat on a log,17-year-old Diego, a drum-beating traditionally dressed Turtle Clan storyteller, theatrically recounted myths and legends about grandmas, star constellations and the Sky World. Lastly, he sang a Wendat lullaby. Then I had him remove the bearskin from my cubicle, before I climbed into my sleeping bag atop a reed mat, and amazingly traveled back 1,000 years.Quebec City’s Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a charming European-style destination in Canada.
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