Things to do in Vancouver
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Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6 million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada after Toronto and Montreal. The Greater Vancouver metropolitan area, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland region with a total population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,000/sq mi), and the fourth highest in North America.
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Day 2 on the tripStanley Park Seawall
The seawall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a stone wall that was constructed around the perimeter of Stanley Park to prevent erosion of the park's foreshore and is the world's longest uninterrupted waterfront path. Colloquially, the term also denotes the pedestrian, bicycle, and rollerblading pathway on the seawall, one which has been extended far outside the boundaries of Stanley Park and which has become one of the most-used features of the park by both locals and tourists.
Seawall Water Walk
JOEY Burrard
Five Sails Restaurant
Paradox Vancouver
Day 2 on the tripTotem Poles
Totem poles are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Indigenous Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. They are usually made from large trees, mostly western red cedar, by First Nations and Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast including northern Northwest Coast Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian communities in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Kwakwaka'wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth communities in southern British Columbia, and the Coast Salish communities in Washington and British Columbia.
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7 days in Vancouver, planned day by day
Built from real, bookable activities — flights, stays and experiences included at around €958.
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Arrival & the Waterfront
Land, settle into the Harbourside base and ease in along the downtown waterfront.
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Stanley Park Day
A full day exploring Vancouver's great urban wilderness on foot and by bike.
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North Shore Mountains
Cross to the North Shore for suspension heights and mountaintop views.
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Sea-to-Sky to Whistler
Drive the spectacular coastal-mountain highway up to Whistler for the day.
