Xwísten Experience Tour Packages

Fishing Rock Tour: The fish rock tour includes a walking tour along the Xwísten (Bridge River) fishing grounds where the St’at’imc people still fish every summer to gather their salmon for the winter. A demonstration is provided of how the St’at’imc wind dry salmon which includes cutting the salmon and preparing the salmon for hanging for wind drying, a sample of the wind-dried salmon is provided.

S7ístken Site Tour: The archaeology site tour guide will provide a short walking tour of the archeological village, home to over 80 cultural depressions. This site is currently being studied by the University of Montana and we are able to share the history they are learning about the site with our tours. Our community has rebuilt one of the S7ístkens (pithouses) and the tourists can enter the pithouse and see what one of our traditional winter homes on the site would have been like.

BBQ Salmon Meal: The meal includes a serving of Fraser River salmon cooked over the BBQ, rice, salad, asparagus, bannock, and bottled water. The dessert is a traditional treat of whipped soapberries (sxúsum).

Over lunch the session runs from 10am – 1pm, and your arrival and departure time will be different depending on what tour package you book.

10am – 11am – S7istken Site Tour
11am – 12:30pm – Fishing Rocks Tour
12:30pm – 1pm – BBQ Salmon Meal

Call us or email us for booking outside of these times, or for groups larger than 20

250-256-7844

tours@xwisten.ca

More About Packages:

https://www.xwistentours.ca/tourpackages