Vancouver's Best Kept Secrets: Where to Go and What to Do for a Memorable Trip (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798257468308)

VANCOUVER'S BEST KEPT SECRETS

Vancouver is the kind of city that gets into you - slowly, quietly, somewhere between the mountains and the ramen and the morning the rain smells like cedar.

Vancouver's Best Kept Secrets is an insider's guide to one of the most beautiful cities in the world, written for the traveller who wants to experience it rather than merely visit it. It covers the neighbourhoods that locals actually live in, the trails that exist ten minutes from downtown and feel like another century, the dim sum tables in Richmond where nobody speaks English and everything costs eleven dollars and is extraordinary, and the SeaBus crossing that never once gets old.

From the forests of Pacific Spirit and the cedar silence of the North Shore trails, to the mural laneways of Mount Pleasant and the Saturday morning rhythms of Commercial Drive. From the Grouse Grind at dawn to Wreck Beach at sunset. From the food markets and the fish tacos to the gospel concerts and the live highlife nights. From the practical wisdom of the Compass Card to the emotional experience of standing on a dock at Granville Island watching the light do things to the water that still feel impossible to describe.

This guide is also for the person hosting a visitor - the full two-week itinerary is here, with the budget breakdown, the annual pass logic, and the honest advice about which restaurant to book three weeks in advance and which watering hole to find by following the sound.

Go slowly. Pack a rain jacket. The mountains will be there when you arrive.

They always are.