Vancouver in 4 days

A 400-hectare forest of Douglas fir and red cedar, a park since 1888, circled by a flat 8.8 km seawall for walkers and cyclists.

The city's birthplace, cobbled streets rebuilt in brick after the 1886 fire, with a 1977 steam clock that whistles on the district heating system.

The first Ming-style scholar's garden built outside China, finished in 1986 by 52 craftsmen from Suzhou using traditional methods, without nails or glue.

Smoked salmon, Vancouver Island cheeses, sourdough and Fraser Valley berries in a former industrial area, a market since 1979, beside a working cement plant.

A long sandy beach facing the West End towers, with a heated 137-metre saltwater pool, the longest in Canada, open from mid-May to mid-September.

Arthur Erickson's 1976 concrete and glass building on a cliff, where Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw and Nisga'a totem poles stand against a wall of glass.

A 137-metre deck hung 70 metres above the Capilano River, successor to an 1889 bridge of hemp rope and cedar planks.

A 1,231-metre peak reached by a 100-person cable car, with two orphaned grizzly bears, summer lumberjack shows and a wind turbine you can go up.