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Follow your sense of discovery to Greater Victoria

Where land meets sea & cultures converge

Open-hearted, open-minded, and wide open spaces await.

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Welcome to Victoria!

Info victoria is your source for the best victoria bc has to offer.

Explore Victoria

Discover the unique victoria shopping experience.

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The Best Victoria Attractions

See why visitors come here again and again, planning your victoria exploration.

There is so much to see in Victoria, even the people living here need years to see it all. That’s why we put together resources on this site to help you prioritize your visit and ensure you and your family form lasting memories of a successful holiday. Here you will find valuable information about Victoria’s best hotels, sumptuous restaurants, eclectic shopping, cultural events and natural vistas.

When you arrive in our fair city, be sure to look for a copy of  Explore Victoria  – our glossy, high quality publication found in most motel and hotel rooms throughout the city. And we invite you to stop by our Greater Victoria Tourist Information Center found in the Victoria Public Market in the old Hudson’s Bay building. See you soon!

Info on Victoria

Victoria is a small city of some 350,000, located on the south tip of Vancouver Island and the capital of British Columbia. It features a bustling inner harbour nestled in the Salish Sea, overlooked by majestic mountains, and graced with an abundance of flowers.

This city brims with artists, artisans and venues. Visit the famous Robert Bateman Center on top of the Inner Harbour causeway featuring the largest exhibit of original works by the world renowned wildlife artist. There you will enjoy his lifetime commitment to the majesty of nature through more than one hundred pieces painted across his lifetime. Walk down the causeway along the inner harbour and you will find talented buskers entertaining and creating an eclectic variety of art.

In the busy harbour, sailboats and tour boats come and go as ducks and harbour seals play in their wake, kayakers and canoeists poke into coves and marinas, and floatplanes take flight off the water. If you feel like exploring the city from both land and water, take a trip with Hippo Tours – both a bus and a boat combined! Go on a whale watching adventure with either Eagle Wing or BC Whale Tours to visit our resident killer whales, or take your kids to see Miniature World located in the classic Empress Hotel which features over 80 exquisite miniature dioramas.

South of the Empress Hotel, the Royal BC Museum and Imax Theatre has so much to see you’ll need to plan a second trip. Nearby in Thunderbird Park is the Mungo Martin carving shed named after the Kwakiutl artist who began the restoration work on native totem poles, now housed in glass cases by the Royal British Columbia Museum.

If live performances are your thing, take in some extraordinary music with the Victoria Symphony – Vancouver Island’s premier performing arts organization.

There is something for everyone; historical buildings and tours, souvenir and specialty shops, restaurants that cater to families and sophisticates, pubs, lounges, coffee bars and antique shops are all within walking distance in downtown. Victoria boasts more restaurants per capita than any other Canadian city which means every kind of international cuisine can be found here. For lunch, stop and have some Indian food at India Bistro, or Mediterranean at Black Olive Restaurant, or Chinese at the Fountain Restaurant or even pizza at the Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria in Market Square plaza near Chinatown.

Victoria is known as the city of flowers. Take in the famous Butchart Gardens, the exotic Butterfly World nearby, or stay in the city and visit Beacon Hill Park – Victoria’s ‘south lawn’ facing the Juan de Fuca Strait. If you want to escape the bustle of the city, pristine and wild, Goldstream Park is only minutes from downtown Victoria. Here you can climb a mountain, visit a waterfall or, at certain times of the year, marvel at the struggles of spawning salmon.

This city has something for every taste of adventure. Enjoy our site and your exploration of Victoria!

WELCOME TO VICTORIA, BC

Victoria and vancouver island has so much to offer a visitor… how do you know where to go and what to do while you’re visiting here.

In our own travels over the years, we’ve found the best way to find interesting things to do and out-of-the way places to go is to ask a local for their advice. This website is intended to be just that! Imagine that you’re a tourist in Victoria, sitting down for a coffee with local, long-time residents who are willing to share their wealth of knowledge with you!  That’s us !

With this website we hope to provide you with a comprehensive travel experience about all things Victoria, British Columbia has to offer – including things you may not find anywhere else – along with ‘recommended’ places and events (keep an eye out for the  ? symbol – that means it’s definitely worth checking out!).

We’ve created it in with RV’ers in mind – but the information isn’t just limited to strictly the RV crowd. And we share not only our knowledge of the fun stuff like where to go, what to do, where to eat and where to stay while in Victoria… but all the basic necessities a tourist might need as well: where to go in a medical emergency, where to do your banking, where to buy liquor and groceries, transportation and parking, where to get your vehicle repaired and on and on.

We help you with all of that as well as provide maps and links to other sites you might find useful. If you don’t find specifically what you’re looking for, please feel free to email and ask.  Also come back often as the site is constantly being up-dated and things added or deleted when we find new stuff to tell you about.

Whether you’re a tourist in Victoria, visiting in your RV… or whether you live in Victoria and want to find new places to explore… we hope this site helps you enjoy this beautiful city and all it has to offer!

So come for a visit… stay for a while… and come back often!

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