CANADA
Pacific Golf round Vancouver (BC)

What to see

Vancouver has a touch of San Francisco, Hong Kong and Sydney. Old British style residential areas verge on glass and steel office buildings rising to the sky while beaches give the city a look of Californian life style. Under the Lions Gate, swarm the maritime activities of the great harbours : streamliners, ferry boats, inter-island sea-planes, great ocean sailing ships, dinghies, canoes…

Canada Place, designed as a transoceanic ship under five hauled fibre glass sails, has become the architectural symbol of the city till its construction for the World Exposition. But in Vancouver, you can also ski (day and night in winter time) on the very mountain at about an hour from the centre where temperatures are regulates by ocean winds.
Climbing (by lift) to the Lookout at Harbour Tower in Hastings Street in the centre is a good way to begin the visit. It is an excellent place to have a high view over the city, the harbour, the sea et the mountains. At the revolving restaurant, the night view is the major interest. Then an old trolley or an English double decker or the skytrain is useful to go through the city.
Gastown is the historical area with nice shops, Indian art galleries… Stop on Water Street at Vancouver's most photographed location, the Steamclock, see and hear this public "Work of art - Art that works" at each quarter with noisy stream jets. See Chinatown as animate and coloured as San Francisco’s.
Stanley Park is the paradise for walking, jigging, cycling, rolling, sportsmen on the circular road along the beaches; some play tennis or English balls with immaculate white dresses. A pitch and run welcomes the golf addicted for learning or training. At the zoo aquarium, rorquals, whales, seals, otters attract people. It is of the most attractive park in the world facing the city skyline and the Vancouver Island.
At Public market at Granville Island, one can find everything. It is the ideal place to discover gifts and souvenirs, by pre-packed salmon ready for a long transportation or taste one or another fish-brocolis or shellfish-read beans soup or chowder…
Horseshoe Bay is the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the port of Vancouver Island ferries. The Vancouver island is famous for its all seasons flowers which has made it a favorite residential place.
Victoria, the capital, has been settled by the English colonists which gave it the typically British touch of its architecture with the Parliament House et the famous Empress Hotel where the five-o’clock tea is still a ceremony and attracts a lot of curious. The Britsh Provincial Museum traces the province history and exhibits a wonderful collection of Indian totems.

Between the island and the continent, millions of salmon are living there for the greatest benefit of hundred of orcs and grampus which can be seen from May to September jumping and diving for the great pleasure of tourists. Wonderful performance.

The Okanagan valley, at one hour drive East from Vancouver, is a long rosary of lakes with attractive beaches due to the local sunny microclimate of this country. Vineyards have taken place all around and the wine road drives to the best wineries where to discover excellent Canadian wines.

Stanley Park faces Vancouver

Lookout at Harbour Tower

Steamclock and old trolley

Cruise liner to Alaska

Whale watching

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