Budget · 3-hour walk · Vancouver
Gastown and Chinatown in three hours
Canada Place, the lookout, the steam clock, the city's first square and the classical garden in Chinatown.
Vancouver began in 1867 as a saloon on the waterfront, and Gastown, named after the talkative man who ran it, is the street grid that grew around it. This route starts at the cruise terminal, follows the cobbles east to where the saloon stood, and turns south into Chinatown.
The route, stop by stop
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Canada Place
The cruise terminal with white sails for a roof, built for Expo 86. The walk along its deck looks across the harbour to the North Shore mountains.
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Vancouver Lookout
Glass lifts run up the outside of the Harbour Centre tower to a ring 130 metres up, with the city, the harbour and the mountains all round.
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Gastown Steam Clock
Built in 1977, it whistles the quarter hours on steam from the city's underground heating system.
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Maple Tree Square
Where Vancouver started. The statue on the whisky barrel is Gassy Jack Deighton, whose saloon stood here.
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Chinatown Millennium Gate
The gate over Pender Street, put up in 2002 at the entrance to one of the largest Chinatowns in North America.
10 min here Walk here → -
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
The first full-scale classical Chinese garden built outside China, made in 1986 by craftsmen from Suzhou with materials shipped from there.
45 min here Walk here →
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