Vancouver Paralympics feature free activities

Ziplining across Vancouver's Robson Square on March 16, 2010
Photo by Sue Frause

There's still a party goin' on in British Columbia. This time, it's for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games, which run March 12-21, 2010.

I was in Vancouver March 15-16, and there were people waiting in line for the popular zipline across Robson Square. But no more 7-8 hour waits, now it's only three hours (no, I didn't queue up, but I've done the Ziptrek at Whistler, scary but fun).

Here are other free things to do in Vancouver:

• Olympic Cauldron
• Ice skating at Robson Square
• BC Pavllion at the Vancouver Art Gallery
• Canada's Northern House
• LiveCity Downtown
• Royal Canadian Mint Pavilion
• Hudson Bay Company for Olympic gear (drastically reduced but really picked over)