Friday, August 24, 2007

Exploring Vancouver

Our first day in Vancouver started typically American...with Iced Coffee from Blenz (the Canadian Starbucks). After visiting the tourist office we moved on to China Town, where we visited the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden. Please see our updated Vancouver photo album for more pictures. Having a lot of Chine restaurants around us, we decided to have lunch in one of them. But this wasn't so easy, because it was really hard to read the menu with Chinese vegetables in English language! ;-)
In the afternoon, we rented two bikes for traveling through Stanley Park (which is located on a half-island connected to Vancouver downtown). From there, you can get a fantastic view of Vancouvers skyline, as you can again see in our gallery. In the middle of the park is Vancouver Aquarium, a nice spot with Orcas, Sharks and other very interesting animals. We proceeded by bike to the Third Beach, where we went for a quick swimming trip in the Pacific Ocean and watched the beautiful sunset. After a really nice day, we watched Vancouver at night from the top of Harbour Center.

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