The Vancouver Art Gallery - probably one of the worst I have been, with an exhorbitant admission fee.

Go past at night, it looks like all the crack heads hang out at these stairs. This is also not the main entrance.

Thoroughly disappointed in this.

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The Dr Sun Yat-Sen classical Chinese garden, located in Vancouver, I think south of Gastown - just past the skid.

Modeled after a Ming Dynasty Scholar's garden.

Tranquility in place.

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Totem Poles in Stanley Park. We had a view of the park and the Lion's Gate Bridge from our hotel rooms.

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More images of the Lower East Side (AKA Skid Row) in Vancouver. These are two old hotels that are still in operation, but appear to have been left to rot.

The Skid runs immediately between two designated tourist areas (Gastown and Chinatown). It remains to be seen how the politicians will try to hide this from the tourists/dignitaries that will be in Vancouver during the Olympics next year.

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Here I am at night on Granville Street. This would appear to be an old Theatre District, the Orpheum shown above. The Vogue is just down the street.

What I'm really liking about Vancouver is the extensive use of neon in new buildings, and the vintage neon signs that remain.
Even though some are not working.

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Still in sunny Vancouver, where it finally is sunny and warm, for only the first time on my trip. Spent the day in Victoria yesterday (pictures later); today, wa walking trip through Skid Row and then a venture into Chinatown.

This afternoon: Davie Street

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Arrived Vancouver, BC about 18:00hrs yesterday. It had turned dark by the time we got to the Empire Landmark Hotel. This is the view of Robson Street, I think looking west, from my room on the 21st floor.