From mud pits to sourtoe cocktails, I was initiated into the Dawson City Music Festival. I joined hundreds of travellers as we stampeded into Dawson City, Yukon (not unlike the gold rush days) to take in Canadian music and have a drink with the locals. The beer flowed freely and evening line-ups greeted us at [...]

Travelling through the small northern communities in the Yukon – like Haines Junction and Beaver Creek – has been fun, but it was time to hit a lively town: Dawson City, Canada. This is where the beginning of the Klondike gold rush began, which turned a small town into a booming city of 30,000. I [...]