Travel Playing roulette at Diamond Tooth Gerties “Big-as-your-head” cinnamon bun from Braeburn Lodge Cancan dancers at Frantic Follies Baked wild salmon at Klondike Rib and Salmon in Whitehorse Taste of the Yukon Yukon’s diverse foods and drinks surprised us. In Dawson City, Klondike Kate’s serves great smoked chicken and ribs in a Gold Rush-era building. Driving on the Klondike Highway from Dawson to Whitehorse, we stopped at Braeburn Lodge for one of their “big-as-your-head” cinnamon buns. We didn’t finish the icing-topped roll until breakfast the next day. Klondike Rib and Salmon is a popular Whitehorse restaurant. The menu includes bison steak, reindeer stew and wild elk stroganoff, which was featured on Food Network’s You Gotta Eat Here. We enjoyed the baked wild salmon drizzled with Yukon birch syrup and Yukon Gold beer. After a delicious fish-and-chips lunch at Coast High Country Inn, we spent our final afternoon in Whitehorse shopping for souvenirs. The choice was difficult – fireweed honey, Midnight Sun and Bean North organic, fair trade, locally roasted coffee blends, and paintings, ceramics and sculptures from Yukon Artists @ Work. At Aroma Borealis, owner Beverley Gray enticed us with Arctic rose petal hand cream, meadow mint tea and other aromatherapy and herbal products. A welcome surprise accompanied each purchase. Yukon does not charge the 8% provincial portion of the HST – only the 5% GST. Vaudeville show Shopping finished, we couldn’t resist the Frantic Follies at the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel. “Yeehaw!” yelled a viewer, when the cancan dancers kicked up their flouncy skirts with gartered legs. (The theatre encourages audience participation.) As a Klondike Kate look-alike sang and banjoplayers strummed toe-tapping music, we once again travelled back in time to the Gold Rush era. It was a memorable way to end our Yukon tour. RESOURCES Tourism Yukon: www.travelyukon.comor call 1-800-661-0494 Barb & Ron Kroll publish the trip-planning website: www.KrollTravel.com CSANews | SPRING 2017 | 23
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