{"id":8684,"date":"2026-02-07T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/day-squamish-one-best-views-british-columbia-canada\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:55:22","slug":"day-squamish-one-best-views-british-columbia-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/day-squamish-one-best-views-british-columbia-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Things To Do In Vancouver In Canada: Squamish Day Trip, Sea To Sky Gondola And More"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since we arrived in Vancouver (on this trip, anyway), we decided to tear ourselves away from the wonderful breakfast at the Shangri La<\/a> and head into town for breakfast.<\/p>\n

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There was a place in town everyone kept raving about and my gluttony was far too intrigued to not pop in and try things out.<\/p>\n

The place was called the Jam Caf\u00e9<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t sound like much on name alone but once we arrived to a queue outside the cafe, I knew the hype kinda had to have some legs to it.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not a fan of queuing for food \u2013 especially not for breakfast (I\u2019m just far too hungry and impatient to do this) but I\u2019m also very greedy (as you may have guessed from my inability to stick to just one choice for breakfast for the last couple of days) and so I decided to wait for a little while \u2013 getting hungrier (perhaps even \u2018hangrier\u2019?) with each passing minute.<\/p>\n

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Thankfully, we didn\u2019t have to wait too long and before you knew it, my breakfast of chicken and waffles and Lloyd\u2019s of French Toast the size of a mountain, arrived. And boy was it good! Like seriously, as soon as you take a first bite into it, you totally understood why there was a queue round the block for it. (Even just thinking about it now makes me so hungry! *licks lips*<\/p>\n

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To keep hunger at bay, I started off with a Strawberry Lemonade\u2026.(I don\u2019t know what it is but they just know how to do that really good up here in Vancouver \u2013 I\u2019ve ordered my fair share of Strawberry Lemonades on my travels, the last one tasted like someone just chicken in Strawberry Jam with sugary water so I really appreciate it when places like the Jam Caf\u00e9 just get it so right).<\/p>\n

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\u2026Lloyd went with a chocolate milkshake (no surprises there).<\/p>\n

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As soon as breakfast was over, we hot-footed it quickly across town (kinda lost track of time), picked up our car from the valet at the Shangri La and headed straight for Squamish.<\/p>\n

Squamish is a pretty special place in British Columbia. It\u2019s about 1 hour\u2019s drive from downtown Vancouver and is home to the Squamish people, some of the indigenous people of Canada who lived here long before the Brits and French even considered sailing across the pond.<\/p>\n

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Squamish is also home to the Sea to Sky Gondola<\/a> \u2013 the best way to get some pretty amazing views when you\u2019re in this part of Canada.<\/p>\n

You can, of course hike but we were only in Canada for a week and I definitely was in no mood to spend half a day hiking up and back down (Canada has some really tall mountains \u2013 plus, not that I expected to see one but what would I do if there was a bear on that path? I don\u2019t know how to handle a wild bear \u2013 I\u2019m not Canadian enough for that. \ud83d\ude00 )<\/p>\n

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Up at the top (and partly why we had to rush over after breakfast), we met up with our pre-booked First Nations guide<\/a> – Karen (the First Nations are the indigenous people).<\/p>\n

Karen would be showing us around Squamish, where her people were from \u2013 telling us all about their cultures, traditions and showing us some of the best viewpoints on the trail (again, I was worried about bears but you don\u2019t really go that far \u2013 in fact, you\u2019ll find that there are quite a fair few people up here with you).<\/p>\n

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The viewpoints were as incredible as expected (*look out for Mount Garibaldi when you\u2019re here) and learning about how the indigenous people used everything from trees to sap was absolutely fascinating.<\/p>\n

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Even the relationship they have with the nature was interesting (this is why you\u2019ll find lots of trees with stripped barks back in Stanley Park in Vancouver<\/a>, the indigenous people use nature but respect it and pay homage to it and would never have wastefully destroyed a tree \u2013 it was used to what they needed it for e.g. the bark for medicine, and let to carry on growing).<\/p>\n

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When you\u2019re up here, guide or no guide, be sure to head over to the viewing platform (it reminds me in a lot of ways of the ones we\u2019d seen over the fjords in Norway<\/a>). This is where you\u2019ll have some of the best views of the mountains, lake and nearby towns and villages.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also a suspension bridge worth walking across though if you\u2019ve got vertigo or you\u2019re really scared of heights, you might wanna give that one a miss. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Eventually, with our tour over, we headed over to the caf\u00e9\/restaurant (not sure which one it is) for lunch and a big drink (the heat had certainly picked up a bit on our walk), before heading back down on the Sea to Sky Gondola and into town.<\/p>\n

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Not too far from the Sea to Sky Gondola, however, is an amazing waterfall which we didn\u2019t even know existed until we heard it (and then saw it) on our drive back. It\u2019s literally minutes away and worth swinging by on your way to Vancouver. It\u2019s called Shannon Falls and as it turns out, is the 3rd<\/sup> largest waterfall in British Columbia.<\/p>\n

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Back downtown, we popped into the pool at the Shangri La to cool off in the heat before slowly making our way to the MARKET by Jean-Georges restaurant<\/a> for dinner. (It\u2019s located in the Shangri La so I wasn\u2019t kidding about that \u2018lazy\u2019 part\u2026).<\/p>\n

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First off, before I even start going into what we had, I can say without a doubt this was one of the best meals we\u2019d had in the city! (And this says a lot considering the many amazing breakfasts we\u2019d had and that amazing meal at Savio Volpe<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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There was a bit of salmon and Carpaccio to start\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026swiftly followed by beef and lamb for mains (I can\u2019t actually remember who had what now \u2013 I think we decided to tag team and share both but doesn\u2019t matter, the menu changes here so you\u2019ll probably get to try something totally different from us when you visit).<\/p>\n

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The chef even popped out to say a quick hello! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The desserts that followed were absolutely fantastic \u2013 chocolate fondants and ganache – the perfect way to round off a pretty amazing meal! \ud83d\ude0b<\/p>\n

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Funny, even now when I think of some of my favourite memories of Vancouver, my mind still goes back to the amazing food we had across the city \u2013 all thanks to evenings (and mornings) like this. \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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