Thursday, March 25, 2010

Vancouver Day 21/22: QE Park and Stanley Park

I visited 2 parks in 2 days and they were beautiful parks. Queen Elizabeth Park was more of a big hill, and it had the Bloedel Conservatory at the peak, which is like an amazon zoo, but really small. It had a lot of fancy birds and plants but I didn't get to tour it cause I arrived too late. It had beautiful gardens and it was quite the walk. Not all the flowers were in bloom yet but many were and it was nice to see.

Stanley Park was just off the coast of Vancouver. I walked/jogged the whole coast in about 2 hours. Turns out I'm not very good at jogging. I thought since everyone else was doing it, I'd do it too...but I think I jog too fast and expend all my energy too quickly. I don't know how to go slow! But the sights were nice and there were many mythical legends left behind by the Natives. They had this one giant rock where they claimed a man had been so unselfish he was transformed into a rock. It was a nice sunny day so it captured a lot of the effect. The insides of the park was beautiful too and a nice nature hike. It's more flat than most of Vancouver surprisingly. There was an "Aquarium" which is an aquatic museum. I didn't enter cause it was $22 but I did get to see some beluga whales and captured them on film! I finally found the Inukshuk and got a picture of it. Vancouver's a beautiful city, much more than Montreal! It's definitely worth a visit if you're looking for something inside Canada that's not Toronto!

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