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British Columbia is a vast and thundering territory, a rippling smudge of mountain chains, glacial lakes, and ragged coastline. Here, the grizzly rules the hinterland – and the humpback rules the seas. Seven days deep and you’ll have forgotten the last time you checked your phone. Bring your walking boots. Forget your charger.
From: $12,000 per person
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Years ago, Jack Hodgins called it the ‘ragged green edge of the world’. In this wild and ‘hovering’ place, you’ll go to ground in the frontier city of Vancouver before disappearing into the wild embrace of Nimmo Bay, the jewel of the Great Bear Rainforest. A drop of culture. An eye-full of nature. Just the ticket.
We’ll put you up at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, located moments from the artisanal and on-trend hubs of Gastown and West Georgia. It’s a city bolthole, and scintillatingly urbane. But with views of the mountains and harbor, you’ll feel in the very heart of the wilderness. A ‘best of both’ kind of place.
Food keeps Vancouver’s engine running. They like to eat here, and they eat well. For you, a gastronomic splurge in Granville market: a culinary Eden to which every chef and gourmand worth their salt makes pilgrimage. The scrawled notes of our previous visit will give it structure. They are food stained, and – eventually – quite hard to read.
Nimmo Bay doesn’t really have ‘grounds’. No, it has the Great Bear Rainforest. Nor is it really a ‘hotel’. Instead, it has nine luxuriously appointed cabins that sit at the water’s edge. Rising to birdsong, the sweep of St. Stephens before you. Snowy mountains, life-thrumming forests.
Fill your flask with coffee and pack your camera. Waking early, you’ll slip into the bay’s waters by kayak, where there are literally hundreds of coves and inlets and islands to explore. One of these – it has no known name – is where you’ll drag your craft onto the stones, and for a proper British Columbia picnic.
A privately guided cycle tour through the most happening and historic neighborhoods of Vancouver, by e-bike or traditional bicycle.