Butchat Garden

On the 3rd day which is also our last day in Vancouver, we booked a day tour in China Town to Butchat Gardens.  This 55 acer of stunning floral show gardens and a National Historic Site of Canada is located near Victoria We boarded the tour bus from China Town  at 7.30 am and headed to the port .  The ferry left the port at 9am and reached the island at 10.30am.  By the time we reached China Town of Victoria(capital of Vancouver) is already our lunch time.  We had our own simple lunch.

 The oldest railway station in Canada

 The port in Victoria

 The Parliament house in Victoria

 O mile from Victoria to the main road of Vancouver

 We reached The Butchart Gardens at about 1pm after going round Victoria.

 Outside Butchart Gardens.

 The first garden that we visited was The Sunken Garden.

 We were so amazed on the first look of the garden.  The landscaping is so fantastic, the plants, the flowers and so on, so.....beautiful!! Lets go on to the other parts of the gardens.

 The Italian Garden, another type of beauty in the landscaping.

 The Japanese garden.

 Ocean in a hole.  We can see the ocean from this hole among the plants in the garden.  We walk to the jetty of the Ocean in  the hole.

 Garden in a window.

AS we had only 2 hours for such a big garden, we actually missed out a lot of the gardens.  We were short of time because we have to catch the 5pm ferry back to main land (Vancouver).  We left the gardens with some disappointment because we did not see enough of the gardens.  It was 6pm when we reached our hotel.  That ends our tour in Vancouver.

Vancouver

From the jetty we hired a taxi to our prebooked Hotel Moda in Vancouver city.  As it was only 10am , not time to check-in yet, hotel attendants handle our languages, we get hold of the city map and started our city tour by walking to China town .  It took us about 30 minutes walk . Once at the town,the first thing we did was to look for Chinese food.  We missed Chinese food as we were tired of western food for the last 8 days in the cruise. We were so satisfied with just fried rice and fried noodles.

Parts of China Town

Beautiful scenes of Dr. SunYat Sen garden.

From the garden we took a bus direct to The Stanley Park.

 Lets move around in Stanley park

 Wild squarer every where

 Greedy sea gull

 Raccoon family

 Sky line of Vancouver view from Stanley Park

Tontom in Stanley Park

We spent about 3 hours in Stanley park. AS we were quite tired and it was getting dark too, we got hold of the next bus to return to the city for our dinner.  That's ended our 1st day in Vancouver.

The next morning we bought day ticket which allow us to travel around the city by bus, train or tram.  It cost us CAD 9.00.   Our first stop was Granville Island which is a market as Victoria market in Melbourne.

 Peaches season

 Different types of guards

We had a simple lunch before we proceed to our next destination, Queen Elizabeth Park.

 So beautiful in the garden, the landscaping woh...

 We enjoyed ourselves in the garden almost 2 hours. The garden really gave me a very deep impression.
From the garden we took another bus to The Gas town which was popular for its old buildings.

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Gas Town

We had our slow walked in this area for 1/2 hour.  That ended our second day in Vancouver.