CANADA – VANCOUVER I SURROUNDINGS – Queen Elizabeth Park and Bloedel Conservatory

CANADA – VANCOUVER I SURROUNDINGS – Queen Elizabeth Park (*****)

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Queen Elizabeth Park is one of the most beautiful parks in Canada. Its location on the highest hill in Vancouver (152 meters above sea level) gives a great opportunity to admire the panorama of the city.  The 52-hectare park is perfectly maintained. There are different specimens of trees as well as thousands of flowers (including rose garden) and blooming shrubs. In the past the hill was quarried for rock, used to build Vancouver’s first roadways. Thanks to this, nowadays the park can pride itself on diverse landform. Bridges stretch over streams full of salmons years ago.

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The park is an artist friendly place, where you can buy pieces of art during the walk. It’s famous for unique sculptures, which create an artistic vibe and an unusual backdrop for pictures. The bronze sculpture  (by  J. Steward Johnson, Junior) of a man taking pictures of three figures posing with the city as a background is one of the most interesting photo spots with panoramic view of Vancouver.  The park’s most popular piece of art is one of four copies of an abstract sculpture Knife Edge – Two Piece by Henry Moore.

Under the acrylic dome of Bloedel Conservatory, visitors can also admire over 120 species of wild birds  all year long. The birds are not kept in cages so you have to look hard to find them among tropical vegetation and flowers. This place is worth seeing especially in rainy days (which are quite frequent in Vancouver). Entrance to Bloedel Conservatory is free for children under 3. Regular ticket costs 6,5 $.

There is an astonishing Dancing Waters fountain with 70 jets of water adjacent to Bloedel Conservatory.

Visiting Queen Elisabeth Park takes 2-3 hours. It’s accessible to disabled people. Although it is located on the hill, visitors can get there by car just to the entrance.