Experience the City Sights of Vancouver

Vancouver City and North Shore Tour

Vancouver City and North Shore Tour

Vancouver is a city that offers all of the amenities that you would expect from an urban setting, yet it also offers nearby natural beauty in its surrounding areas. While you might not wish to spend your entire vacation in the city, you will find it nice to have such a lovely city to visit in between your outdoor nature excursions during your next Vancouver vacation.

To help you explore the city, you can take a couple of city tours on which guides will enlighten you about the history and significance of the sights that you are seeing. Two great tours for around town Vancouver are the Vancouver City and North Shore Tour and the Vancouver Highlights Tour.

The Vancouver City and North Shore Tour is a tour that will keep you busy for about six hours enjoying the sights and sounds of Vancouver. This tour that crosses Lion's Gate Bridge takes you to visit Gastown, B.C. Place, Canada Place and the shopping area of Rejoin driver at Lonsdale Quay. All of these travels during the tour will be by a luxury motor coach, which offers great views from its elevated windows. 

Included in the Vancouver City and North Shore Tour is a sky ride at Grouse Mountain. After you cross the bridge to Vancouver's North Shore, you can enjoy the Grouse Skyride, which will give you a panoramic view of Vancouver to see how well the urban development complements the natural beauty of the surrounding areas.

The Vancouver Highlights Tour is a four to five hour tour that highlights all of the best of the city of Vancouver. During this exciting tour, a knowledgeable and fascinating tour guide will educate you and entertain you with stories about the history and making of the places that you will visit. The Olympic sites, B.C. Place, G.M. Place and Science World are internationally renowned places on The Vancouver Highlights Tour.  Other stops on the tour include:

· Gastown - Historic area of Vancouver
· Canada Place - Alaska Cruise ship terminal
· Stanley Park - The Totem Poles and Prospect Point
· English Bay/Vancouver Harbour
· Granville Island - Stop at artists' studios, craft galleries, and the Granville Island Public Market
· Queen Elizabeth Park - Views of the city, the Sunken Gardens, and the Bloedel Floral Conservatory (admission included)  

Your guide will conduct this tour from an elevated luxury motor coach that offers fantastic views of the city streets and buildings that you visit. If you ever wanted to know more about the culture, geography and history of this Canadian city, this Vancouver Highlights Tour is the tour to take.

If you are in Vancouver for three days or more, you might consider taking the Vancouver Highlights Tour one day and an outdoor excursion tour to one of Vancouver's outlying attractions another day. What better way could there be to see the complementary beauty that the urban landscape of Vancouver adds to the natural beauty that surrounds it than to tour each?