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Looking
for day trips or excursion in an around Vancouver ?
Vancouver's neighbouring towns and cities offer the day and
weekend traveller a diversity of sights, sounds and souvenirs.
At its best, travel is the chance to create an orderly schedule
and a carefully defined list of must-see attractions, which,
once you’ve arrived, can be crumpled up and left under the
passenger seat.
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 Go experience Victoria’s love affair with Olde England. With its
manicured trees, fish and chip houses, and 19th-century façades.
It is a scenic hour and a half ferry ride away from Vancouver on
Vancouver Island, with first class hotels, hundreds of
restaurants and a large downtown, with plenty of shopping There
is plenty to see and do in Victoria BC the Capital of British
Columbia.
To Start off you can walk from the Empress’s central Inner
Harbour location to several other attractions: the Parliament
Buildings, the Royal British Columbia Museum and the Maritime
Museum of B.C. If you have children in tow, you can reward their
lack of fidgeting at teatime with visits to Miniature World (the
world’s largest dollhouses and the world’s smallest sawmill) and
the Royal London Wax Museum. The wax museum features British
royals, historical figures, a gruesome Chamber of Horrors and,
most terrifying of all, various Canadian prime ministers.
Double-decker tour buses are available for city tours and
destinations like Butchart Gardens and Craigdarroch Castle.
GETTING TO
VICTORIA BC:
Call BC Ferries at 888-223-3779
Victoria Travel InfoCentre
Phone 250-953-2033 or 800-663-3883. The
Fairmont Empress Hotel, 721 Government St. or a list of
other
Victoria BC Hotels
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Whistler Village Just
2 hours north of
Vancouver, lies , a charming Boutique
and cafe lined alpine village, and home to the
2010 Winter Olympics
 Winter
at Whistler is, in a word, huge. Over 8,000 skiable acres
encompass groomed schusses, snowboard pipes, brutally steep
mogul fields and some of the world’s best bowl skiing.
For those
who prefer not to ski, there are other ways to spend your time
besides shopping the village and drinking consecutive Irish
coffees.
An experienced musher and team of huskies will tour you
via dogsled through the Soo Valley Wildlife Reserve, or you can
work up a sweat on a guided snowshoe trek through forests of
hemlock and old-growth cedar.
Whistler broke new ground and aroused the envy of resort
operators worldwide with its summer Mountain Bike Park. Open May
to October, the terrain park gets bigger every season; everyone
from green beginners to log-jumping experts can improve their
trail-riding skills and put the vertical to good use. Wildlife
tours, five golf courses and nearby flyfishing and river
kayaking round out the warm-weather action.
Be careful of the
après-ski nightclub culture, though: it’s seductive in a whole
other way.
GETTING THERE:
Drive north on Highway 99, the scenic “Sea to Sky Highway,” or
bus it with Perimeter’s Whistler Express, 877-317-7788,
www.perimeterbus.com
Call Tourism Whistler, 877-991-9988, for more info.
Accommodations at Whistler
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 The
Okanagan Wine Route wends its way to over 50 wineries in the
region. Wine festivals and all manner of activities are tied in
with the industry, which vies for attention with the abundance
of apple, peach and cherry orchards. The fun doesn’t just grow
on vines and trees: house boating on Shuswap Lake and some of
the best golf in the country await your pleasure.
GETTING THERE:
All routes begin with a drive east along Highway 1 to Hope, B.C.
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