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Travel - The Best Places Nearby

There are many local travel options within a few hours from Vancouver. Here are a great selection of ideas for your long weekends or annual leave days. For tips on how to get around click here. If you are searching for cheap flights YVR Deals is a handy website.

BC has cleverly spaced 10 public holidays (called statutory holidays) evenly across the year recently changed one to February to accommodate your wanderlust. 

Holidays include

  • New Year's Day (Jan)

  • Family Day (Feb)

  • Good Friday (March/April)

  • Victoria Day (May)

  • Canada Day (July)

  • B.C. Day (August)

  • Labour Day (September)

  • Thanksgiving Day (October)

  • Remembrance Day (November)

  • Christmas Day (December)

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This blog is designed to help you maximise your experience in Vancouver and provide inspiration for your gap year, student time, extended holiday or sabbatical placement. 

We acknowledge that this site was created within the Ancestral, Traditional and Unceded Territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Tsleil-waututh Nations.

 

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