Vancouver Day 1 Drive to Stanley Park looking towards North Vancouver. Beautiful park, lovely trees, great cycle paths. The harbour area is very extensive with many large cargo and container ships moored. The closeness of the mountains make it a very picturesque harbour. We caught a small passenger ferry boat called an "Aqua-bus" to get to Granville Markets. This is a lovely area spread around the waterfront with a great food court and markets selling genera...

We had a buffet breakfast at The Bellagio then explored the hotel areas. While Joanne visited the shops at the Bellagio and at the next door Vaaessar's Palace, I explored the Bellagio's areas -swimming pools, other restaurants and garden foyers. Time to go to McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas), for our flight o Canada. We had a good flight with Westjet flying from Las Vegas to Vancouver arriving at 4.30pm. We had a funny experience arriving at Border ...

As we were very keen to leave the Alexis Park Hotel and move in to our suite at the Bellagio, we got up early, packed and moved on, arriving at the Bellagio aorund 9.00am,hoping to get in to our room early. A greeting of "Good morning sir, welcome to The Bellagio", from the porter - let the opulence begin! Unfortunately we couldnt check in early as "thousands" were checking out. We cloaked our bags and wandered the foyer of this wonderful place - but time to s...

We were exhausted when we got to the Alexia Park Hotel, our stay for one night. It was very hot in the mini van as the guide dropped a few people off first at various other hotels? Unfortunately, our room was at the far back of the complex. We arranged a limousine tour for the evening to show us the sights of Las Vegas Blvd - known as "The Strip",, where all the hotels/casinos are. Well we had a stretched black Hummer about 15 metres long. So off we set (9 o...

Hoover Dam holds back Lake Mead and has a depth of150 metres.  It feeds Las Vegas water supply.  Approaching the dam there is a marked scenery change from  flat country near Saligman to more hilly mountain areas.  This is the official end or beginning of the Grand Canyon.  The road we have been on has been skirting the canyon all the way from Grand Canyon village.  Hydro electricity is produced for Vegas  by 8 generators and is the largest dam in the US. ...