What you can do in British Columbia

Versatile tourist attractions of British Columbia will leave you not much time to relax. Simply the place has too much to offer- spectacular harbor of Victoria, fantastic cityscape of Vancouver and mountains of Kamloops. While Victoria offers lot of thrills of the sea, it also has many things spread out for enjoyment. Vancouver has ample of attractions starting with enjoyment of sailing, canoeing, water sports, skiing and tracking in coastal mountains. Kamloops Mountain is well known for bike riding with beautiful, easy to access tracks for riders. British Columbia cottage rental is the only befitting way to be properly installed for enjoying this place.

Go whale watching in Victoria
Having come to Victoria, you must have the privilege of seeing these largest animals of creation in their natural habitat. The city has professional companies that guide the tourists with all modern facilities to watch killer whales.

Kabuki Kab Ride
A little cab attached to a bike may not sound something attractive, but take it for granted there is some unusual attraction to feel about. Kabuki Kab Rides take you around not at a high speed, but at an enjoyable pace of movement to devour scenic beauty of the place.

Horse Drawn Carriage Ride
Step into the old world on horse drawn carriage. A ride around the city on a horse drawn carriage offers a perfect charm of roaming about the town of Victoria in leisurely manner reminding of old times. These carriages are beautiful and nicely maintained by company having rights for operating the ride in Victoria.

Butchart Gardens
The most scenic park, Butchart Gardens, offers breathtaking closeness to astounding flora both during summer and winter seasons. It has striking vegetation and wonderful spread of floral colors. No single tourist gets tired of repeating visits to this garden in Victoria.

Water sports in Vancouver
Call any sort of popular water sports, Vancouver is naturally well fortified with rivers, lakes and coastline. Go out sailing, canoeing, rafting and anything that you are fond of, Vancouver has the facility. You are assured to be accompanied with spectacular viewing of beautiful coastline with contrasting snow-clad mountains.


Fishing in Vancouver
Island of Vancouver and Kootenay Rockies are main places with ample of scope for fishing salmon as well as cod, burbot, trout and whitefish. Fishing is allowed against securing license for enjoying the sport in over 200 lakes around Kamloop Mountains.

Watching whales
March is the month of migration of whales in Pacific Rim. You can see Pacific grey whales, the humpback whales and Mink whales as well the killer whales. The sandy beaches of Tofino and Ucluelet towns, close to Vancouver, offer better watching.

Skiing in Vancouver
Vancouver has all sources for varied type of skiing. Besides normal skiing, you can go for snowcat skiing or heli skiing, snowboarding and glacier skiing in summers. A number of skiers like running across distances by ski-touring.

Kamloops Heritage Railway's Steam Train
This ghost train offers on hour journey enacting an old train robbery. The steam locomotive is a great source of enjoyment for all the ages.

Biking in Kamloops
This beautiful mountain range has large tracts for biking to fully enjoy the undulating topography passing through canyons. There is ample of place well laid for cross country biking. Kamloops Bike Ranch is an expansive bike park well groomed to satisfy adventurous and tuff bikers.

Winter activities in British Columbia

Every corner of British Columbia offers charming winter activities for whole of the family. It is a mixture of both wilderness and bustling metro life, which you can enjoy for most of the seasonal relaxation. British Columbian winter vacation will let you have access to all the activities you may have been waiting eagerly. For extracting total joy of your stay use British Columbia cottage rental to have a worry free stay. You can make your choice of available winter activities in BC out of activities like cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, snowmobiling, dog sledding and many others. This area is famous all over the world for sleigh rides, dog sledding, cross country skiing and ice fishing to name a few. British Columbia radiates warmth during icy winters in northern part of the continent.

Cypress Mountain, Vancouver, BC
It won’t be a justice unless the admiration of this place is recounted with being elected venue for hosting 2010 Winter Olympic Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing events. This mountain boasts of 52 trails accessed through 9 lifts. The skiing facilities go for Night skiing and Nordic skiing besides facilities for snow tubing and snowshoeing.

Purden Ski Village
It is the best skiing and snowboarding area in central British Columbia. This mountain ski village offers 1,200 feet vertical drop of the slop. Lake View trail offers the longest run. You will get all the facility of buying or taking equipments on rent.

Dawson Creek
This is a famous cross-country skiing ground off Bear Mountain Forest trail. The renowned skiing spots around Dawson Creek area are trail in Beatton Provincial Park, which is a cross-country skiing route and Andy Bailey Provincial Recreation Area. Both skiing areas are known for fluffy powder snow.

Pine Pass
Pine Pass is another known skiing ground having powder snow. The pass is located in the wooded area called Powder King. The trail has well groomed slopes and awful drop of 2,100 feet.

West Lake Provincial Park
This park is also known for cross-country skiing, and also tobogganing and snowshoeing. This is an ungroomed trail with a big location suitable for picnic and supported with all necessary shelters.

Big Bam Ski Hill
Big Bam Ski Hill is run by volunteers from the community of Taylor for skiing. Access to the summit is provided through tow lift, the lifting height is 180 feet.

You will find several skiing areas in British Columbia. Some to name are:
1. Prince George, the cross-country skiing trail.
2. Cottonwood Island skiing trail.
3. The skiing trail of the University of Northern British Columbia.
4. Moore's Meadow skiing trail.

There are trails in Tabor Mountain and Otway, which are smaller, but enjoyable ones. In these two places you will be charged a little fee for use. The Eskers Provincial Park on Chief Lake Road and the Giscome Portage Heritage Trail are other skiing trail in Prince George area. If you consider for all skiing trails in BC, it is stunningly large in numbers, some groomed and some not.