 Xa:ytem Cultural Tour
2011 Departure Dates:
SITE CLOSED TO PUBLIC
Departs From: Pier and Downtown Vancouver, BC
Group Size: Minimum guests 50 maximum guests 60 per day
 
Xa:ytem is the sacred site of a 9,000 year old Coast Salish village located one and a half hours east of Vancouver on the North bank of the Fraser River. The Sto:lo Nation has the only sacred transformer rock site in Canada that is available for the public to access and is home to the oldest house in British Columbia, older than the Egyptian Pyramids.
The seven-hour group tour includes a Salmon lunch and return transportation between Vancouver hotels and Xa:ytem |
Adult $142 CAD - based on minimum group size of 20
Adult $98 -based on minimum of 55 |
| Children 12 & under: $133 CAD |
Trip Inclusions:
- 7-hour guided tour
- Admission to Xa:ytem
- Traditional salmon lunch with bannock, rice and dessert
- Transportation from/to downtown Vancouver with peer and hotel pick-up/drop-off
Some of the Highlights of this package:
- Cultural Tours
- Traditional Food
- Cultural Workshops
- Education & history
- Cultural Centres/Museums
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There are two pit-houses, a long house and a carving shed at this powerful ”Singing Rock” site.
You will sample a part of Stó:lo life while participating with First Nation tour guides in traditional activities such as Salish weaving and adzing a dug-out canoe. Xa:ytem’s Gift Gallery offers quality native art, silver and gold jewelry, cedar weavings and carvings, bent boxes, drums, books and clothing. Your six hour tour includes a Salmon lunch and tour has Vancouver hotel drop-off.
Your seven hourguided tour includes a Salmon lunch and tour and has
Vancouver hotel or airport drop-off.
A total of two and a half hours is spent at the venue with a guided site tour, barbecue lunch and traditional activities of Salish weaving and adzing a dug-out canoe. The remainder of the time is with a guide first Nation guide on the motorcoach supplying interpretive history and legends of the territories traveled through on this excursion
The bus will depart the site to begin drop off to your Vancouver destination. Tour starts and ends in Vancouver - Arrangement for guests transportaion to Vancouver is available as well.
Contact Talking Totem Tours if you want to have an exhilarating cultural experience.
Ph: 1.250.444.7077
Mailing Address:
Talking Totem Tours
1664 Thrums Road
Castlegar BC V0N 1R7
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