How would you like to spend an afternoon biking through wooded hills along a peninsula with a view of the sea, then grab a cocktail before heading to the theatre? It may be a vibrant metropolis of two million, but Vancouver integrates its natural spaces like no other city. Lucky Vancouverites take full advantage of magnificent Stanley Park, a thousand-acre haven of virgin forest and clean sandy beaches, and a multitude of smaller city parks, beaches, and botanical gardens mean Mother Nature’s never more than a few blocks away.

Much of Vancouver is accessible on foot, and the public buses are clean and relatively efficient. Stanley Park crowns

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