The Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: The third tour of the Rocky Mountains - Cloud Port in Vancouver

The Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: The third tour of the Rocky Mountains - Cloud Port in Vancouver I participated in a seven-day tour of the Canadian Rockies and arrived in Vancouver (Vancouv...

Phoenix City is like a rainbow: Rocky Mountain Tour 3 - Vancouver Cloud Port I participated in a seven-day tour of the Canadian Rockies. I arrived in Vancouver (Vancouver) on the evening of the first day. The station wagon parked next to the Coast Hotel and picked up a tourist from Taiwan so that we could have dinner at Shanghai Restaurant in Richmond. While I was sitting in the car waiting, I saw three Chinese characters in front of the house on the roadside: "Jing Si Hall". I was very happy. Then I looked carefully through the glass door and window. It turned out to be the Vancouver Tzu Chi branch. The Queen always laughs at me because I am so happy when I see Chinese characters. She does not understand that in foreign cities in Europe and the United States, Chinese characters can shine brightly to tourists. They are extremely precious and worthy of praise. After spending the first night in Canada, we had breakfast at the hotel’s White Spot restaurant the next morning and started traveling in Vancouver. The tour guide informed everyone that today there will be six more Taiwanese tourists and an Indian couple, and tomorrow there will be four more Chinese from Africa, bringing the total number to thirty-one. The tour guide also explained that these two days are spent visiting nearby scenic spots, staying in the original hotel, leaving luggage as usual, no need to move, but the most important thing is to bring cold clothes, medicine, mobile phones, cameras and other essential sightseeing equipment. The tour bus set off at seven o'clock on time. The tour guide gave an overview of the city of Vancouver and the two-day itinerary, including visits to the Old Town, Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, Chinatown, Whistler, where the Winter Olympics were organized, and Vancouver Island. Listening to the narration, we learned that Vancouver is the third largest city in Canada, the largest city in the west, a major water and land transportation hub, and belongs to the province of British Columbia. The so-called British Columbia is originally the transliteration of the English letters BC, and its full name is British Columbia. Vancouver is an important town for Chinese people. Before Hong Kong returned to China in 1997, Hong Kong people were afraid of the socialist authoritarian policies and immigrated in large numbers to live here. It became the largest Chinatown in North America after San Francisco. Some people even nicknamed it "Hong Kong China". Cantonese is the common language of the Chinese community. In recent years, the number of tourists from Taiwan and Mainland China has increased, and Mandarin conversation has gradually become more popular. This is my first time in Vancouver. I took a car to see the scenery. I saw everything fresh. There were many maple trees, with swaying maple leaves. There were more greens than yellows, and the reds were even rarer. I also saw mountains rising in the distance from the city, and there was an ocean outside. There were so many lakes on the roadsides. It seemed like "mountains and rivers meet each other" everywhere. The mountains and rivers were beautiful and the scenery was pleasant. I wasn't interested in a brief tour of the old city, but Taizu liked to go shopping in stores and buy warm clothes. I prefer the Chinatown flavor, which is particularly noteworthy. It is full of traditional Chinese culture. The operation of the shops is a bit like the Vietnam embankment in the past, which shows that the livelihood of old overseas Chinese in Guangdong is the same all over the world. Passing a narrow shop, a large vertical sign caught my eye: "Zhou Yongzhi──Yan Shu", the name resembles that of my brother, where is Yan Shu? The tour guide has to explain to Mandarin speakers that it is the Cantonese transliteration of "insurance". Not far away, I saw another old signboard: "Yungaohua Branch of the Chinese Kuomintang". It turned out that the early translation was not Vancouver, but Yungaohua. No wonder it was abbreviated as "Yunbu" or "Yuncheng". ah! Yuncheng, Yuncheng, is very poetic. We wandered here, admiring the clouds in Chinatown, which made me feel friendly. I passed by a bakery and bought a bag of sweet potato kettle and a box of chicken pancakes for snacks, reminiscing about the traditional flavor of my hometown. At noon, we gathered at a Chongqing restaurant for dinner, enjoying Yunchu’s Tang Dynasty cuisine and appreciating the Yuncheng Tang Dynasty atmosphere. We didn’t feel like a stranger in a foreign land at all. Unfortunately, everything passed quickly and the scenery disappeared in an instant. After lunch, we left like a calm cloud! All tourist attractions in Vancouver are quite famous and worth visiting in person. However, due to time constraints, tour groups cannot enjoy themselves as much as they want. They can only choose key areas to experience the fun. Tourists from all walks of life are busy taking photos and videos as souvenirs. The environment of Stanley Park is quite beautiful. The entrance of the park is vast and open, with a bronze statue of the old Governor Stanley. Facing the ocean, there are seven totem poles standing in the square on the east side. They are carved with various figures or bears and other beasts. They are colorful and unique in form. They are probably symbols representing various indigenous tribes. Queen Elizabeth Park has a pleasant scenery. The cherry blossoms and maple leaves are blooming with natural beauty and fragrance. Two Vietnamese couples like to join us, chatting and traveling together. They walk up the slope together and see interesting statues in the center. A photographer gestures with his hand not to block my lens. There are three other figures representing tourists dressed up and waiting to be photographed. These lifelike sculptures have become free models for us to capture the lens. Arrive in Whistler in the afternoon. It is even more famous. It is the largest ski resort in North America and the place where the 2010 Winter Olympics was held. The five-ring Olympic symbol is left to commemorate it, attracting many tourists and becoming a popular tourist destination. The place is vast and there are sights to admire everywhere, especially the bicycle fighters on the other side, which attract tourists to watch. They are all courageous young people. They take the cable car and bicycles to the top of the mountain, and then cycle from the peak to the foot of the mountain in a circuitous way. It is thrilling! In addition to visiting various scenic spots in person, the tour group also saw mountains, rivers and bays, blue skies and white clouds, flowers and trees, and lush green scenery along the way. There were also many beautiful and wonderful sights, such as the suspension bridge feature when passing through Ning Canyon, and a pair of lion statues on the way to and from Stanley Park. There are other places worth visiting on both sides of the iron bridge, called the Lions Gate Iron Bridge. However, if you want to see it in detail, take your time and travel freely to get what you want. The tour group uses collective measures to arrange the itinerary in a compact and time-sensitive manner. It is impossible to stay at each attraction for too long. As night fell, the tour group was already tired. They hurried to a Chinese restaurant for dinner and then returned to the Coast Hotel to rest and prepare for tomorrow's trip.