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Gate to Chinatown
Gate to Chinatown
New gate in old Chinatown in Vancouver. One of top three Chinatowns in North America prior to it falling out of favor with wave of new immigrants.
Old Meets New The tale of two Chinatowns is one of "old" meets "new". Vancouver's Chinatown being old and Richmond's Asian "Golden Village" being new. While we would not recommend visiting Vancouver's Chinatown for either Chinese dining other than Wild Rice, a fabulous restaurant on Chinatown's outskirts, an evening destination, or a contemporary shopping spree, if you appreciate architecture, traditional Chinese culture, and history, then it's certainly worth a look. For Chinese dining and shopping, head out to Richmond on the Canada Line to the Aberdeen Mall, Parker Plac [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 20th 2009 | 25 Views | [diary=440596]

Dr. Sun Yat  Sen Public Garden
Chinatown Streetscape
The Sam Kee Heritage Building

By Embai
November 15th 2009
Vancouver North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver » YVR
Harbour Centre
Harbour Centre
Prominent landmark on the city's skyline
27 Oct 2009-Went to Vancouver for a first time. Despite of the cold weather and rainy days, it didnt stop me to explore a little bit of Vancouver city. I went to Stanley Park, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park and Gastown. [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 15th 2009 | 16 Views | [diary=453404]

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Sut Yat Sen Memorial Park
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Westside Heritage Homes
Westside Heritage Homes
1918 Craftsman home located on a heritage streetscape.
Neighbourhood Hopping on the Westside Hopping south across the Burrard Street, Granville Street and Cambie Street bridges, Vancouver's westside offers tourist attractions embedded in its residential neighbourhoods that feature single-family dwellings, tree-lined streets, shopping districts, and private schools, clubs and golf courses. Queen Elizabeth Park, VanDusen Gardens, Nitobe Gardens, University Endownment Lands, public beaches and golf courses, University of British Columbia, museums, live theatre venues and Granville Island Public Market are visitor highlights. On some [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 14th 2009 | 76 Views | [diary=425137]

Neighbourhood Banners
Stanley Theatre, South Granville
Glen Brae Mansion

Happy Halloween! Öbbis womer eifach wirkli muen erläbt ha in Nordamerika isch Halloween, die wohl grössti Partynacht da. Gschnitzti Chürbisse, Gspänstli u Spinnwabe überall, Chind wo dür d Quartiere laufe u Süesses sammle. So richtig agfange hets aber ersch, woni ufe Bus bi für Downtown zgah. Sogar de Buschauffeur isch verchleidet gsi u so bini de imne als Zombi dekorierte Bus mitemne Zombibusfahrer gfahre. D Stimmig isch bestens gsi u vo Teletubbies über en wandelnde Sarg hetmer alles gseh. Es isch denn o öbbe i dem Stil wiitergange, d Granville Street isch voll gsi mit kostümie [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 10th 2009 | 11 Views | [diary=450590]

wandelnder pumpkin
Ninja Andrew
Taeh, Andrew and me

Today, our last day in Vancouver, was a warm, sunny Sunday. We picnicked with Ally then spent the afternoon wandering around Stanley park capturing all the beautiful autumn colours as the sunset over the city. Last night was halloween so we followed tradition and carved some pumpkins, dressed up in gory outfits and bought the biggest, baddest box of fireworks we could find. The city was screaming with fireworks going off in every street, fire-truck sirens in the background and the wafting smell of gunpowder. It was a warm night so we had a few drinks, Anna (Ally's housemate) cooked us [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 35 Views | [diary=450071]

and Sarah carving a pumpkin
Pumpkins and costumes
Fall leaves

Airplane
Airplane
Taken during our stop over in NZ
Hello everyone, we've flown for sixteen hours around the world and landed in rainy vancouver... and guess what, it feels like the pilot is playing cruel joke and dropped us back off in Melbourne. No, there's differences, for example don't cut corners or jay-walk until you known what direction the traffic flows from. Spent the first night in a hostel in 'downtown' Vancouver, found a great brewery and learnt the trick to not getting jet lagged is to confuse your body with a nasty hangover. Day two we caught the bus out to SFU by accident which is one of the [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2009 | 50 Views | [diary=448203]

Airplane 2
Blackfrog Brewery
Houseboat

Vancouver, BC [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 19th 2009 | 55 Views | [diary=446237]

Gastown
Downtown
Waterfront

By Aly s
October 16th 2009
Day 27  North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver
Today I awoke, as I expected I would, to the pitter patter of rain drops on my tent and with 100km to the ferry to go there was little time for sitting around so I was up and off by 8.45 and the rain had even stopped. Bonus. My first 10km today was all uphill. No-one had told me that the highway climbs from sea level up to 350m on Vancouver Island, wow that’s a way to wake up. Being used to hills by now though it was a case of shift into a low gear and let the legs work. [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 16th 2009 | 31 Views | [diary=445575]

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Grouse Mountain is the location of a very popular hiking trail known as the Grouse Grind. It is an extremely steep and mountainous trail that climbs 853 m (2,799 ft) over a distance of 2.9 km (2 mi), with an average grade of 30 degrees. The trail, nicknamed "Mother Nature's Stairmaster", is notoriously gruelling due to its steepness and mountainous terrain. Hikers, who often time themselves on the trail, reach the top in approximately 90 minutes on average, although some who are very fit can finish in 45 minutes. This time we made it in 60 minutes! (Little better than average...but [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 13th 2009 | 14 Views | [diary=444521]

Some general info
Maciej ready for the challenge
Some very specific warning for hikers

A month is already over... Es chunnt mer zwar einersiits vor, als wäri erscht gad gange, aber anderersiits hani o ds Gfüehl i bi scho ewigs hie, wiu i füehl mi da wirkli afe drheime. En Viertu vo mire Ziit da in Vancouver isch bereits ume, chum zum glaube. Vorletscht Wuche hani de mis erste Erfolgserläbnis im Use of English gha u mittlerwiile bini o chli zueversichtlicher, dass i die Prüefig im Dezämber wirde bestah. U es isch cool chönne zgseh, dass es öbbis bringt, wemmer Wörtli übersetzt u versuecht o im Alltagsänglisch z bruuche. S Änglisch isch eigentli keis [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 11th 2009 | 22 Views | [diary=444163]

View to Downtown
Beach at Whiterock
us at Whiterock


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