Vancouver
Vancouver is the favourite city of many Canadiens and exchange students. The nicest part of the town is certainly the district Gastown, especially the Water street. Main attraction is the world oldest steam clock which plays every hour the "Westminster chime".
left: The Water Street with Harbour Centre Tower in the background; right: since 1870 the steam clock plays a melody every hour.
Starting point was the visit on the tower of the Harbour Centre (167m) from where a complete view over Vancouver is possible. In the middle of the picture above you can see the BC Place Stadium, the roof was once the biggest airbag roof in the world.
Also in Gastown you can find the traingular building from 1908 (left). Some blocks further, in Chinatown, the "Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden" (right) offers a nice atmosphere to take a break and relax.
Above: Where a harbour centre is there should be a harbour as well.
Close to center of Vancouver the Stanley park is located. In earlier times natives lived here, now it is an urban recreation area.
From here you can see a fantastic skyline of Vancouver (left) and a whole bunch of totempoles (right).
posted by FAMOUS SVEN at 26.8.05
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Where would svens blog be without the whole coming soon updates.. ;)
07 September, 2005
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