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Frommer's Favorite Experiences

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  • Strolling Victoria's Inner Harbour: Watch the boats and aquatic wildlife come and go while walking along a paved pathway that winds past manicured flower gardens. The best stretch runs south from the Inner Harbour near the century-old Provincial Legislature Buildings and The Fairmont Empress hotel.

  • Savoring Afternoon Tea: Yes, it's expensive and incredibly touristy, but it's also a complicated and ritual-laden art form that goes on for at least an hour. Besides, it's good.

  • Marveling at Butchart Gardens: This world-class garden, 20 minutes north of downtown Victoria, is a must-see attraction. Gorgeous during the day and subtly illuminated on summer evenings, it takes on a whole new personality when the famous fireworks begin. Saturday nights in the summertime, you get both.

  • Touring the Royal B.C. Museum: One of the best small museums in the world, the Royal B.C. does exactly what a good regional museum should do -- explain the region and its people. The First Nations galleries are breathtaking reminders of the richness of native culture.

  • Whale-Watching: Of all the species of orcas (killer whales), those on the Washington and B.C. coasts are the only ones that live in large and complicated extended families. This makes Victoria a particularly good spot to whale-watch because the orcas travel in large, easy-to-find pods. There's something magical about being out on the water and seeing a pod of 15 animals surface just a few hundred feet away.

  • Touring by Miniferry: Catch a Victoria Harbour Ferry, and take a 45-minute tour around the harbor past the floating neighborhood of West Bay or up the gorge, where tidal waterfalls reverse direction with the changing tide. Moonlight tours depart every evening at sunset.

  • Biking the Dallas Road: Where else can you find a bike path by an ocean with high mountain peaks for a backdrop?

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