well hello everyone
Channel here today we're going to be giving you a tour of beautiful downtown
Kelowna Kelowna is situated on a lake in British Columbia Canada
we have lots of tourism here there's skiing golfing wine tours
so this is the beginning of downtown and it's right on the lake there's a marina
I'm just gonna be pulling onto the Main Street here which is Barnard
we'll come around back down Barnard at the end of the tour
lots of restaurants different things down here they're gonna be building a
big beautiful hotel and conference center right in this area over the next
few years
we've got City Hall right up ahead here their cologne huh
without the bus depot here straight ahead on Queens way
when you head down here on the left there's a outdoor skating rink it's
closed now because it's spring but all winter you can skate there along the
water
you can go next door and have dinner at the cactus Club they play music they
even have an outdoors on boney to clean the ice it's great conditions there's
music playing that sort of thing well so Kelowna Community Theatre here lots of
plays different things go on there
on the right up ahead here we have the Kelowna law court so the the courts for
Kelowna and there's a boat launch here on the
left
we bought the art gallery for clone on the right you want to see some paintings
and that sort of thing and the big Delta hotel the Grand Hotel is on the left
here as well as the grand
Casino I think they just changed the name and
not sure what it's called
on the right we've got Prospero place that's where the Kelowna Rockets play
they have lots of concerts that sort of thing Brian Adams is coming here shortly
in a couple of months some pretty big acts come in here this is
new area of town where they're building some high-rises there's gonna be 20 30
storey high-rises coming in here
and up ahead we've got the police station that building that's three or
four stories just about a block ahead there we're gonna hang it right here
onto Ellis
this area is kind of a cultural district they're putting in you know all sorts of
things and some of the older buildings there's lots of little shops and
different things
bistros sushi
little pops and stuff
there's a parkade here if you need to park while you're downtown there's
actually a few of them right around town on the right coming up here we've got
the Kelowna library which is a great place it's quite large
there's different coffee shops here blends coffee Starbucks down the street
as well as on the left here we've also got being seen the original Ice Arena
there's on the right-hand side
now it's just minor hockey being played there that Maine hockey is at the
Prospera place which I already showed you
we'll turn down boil here and there's a new interior health building here on the
left
hospital services a YMCA they just put in here on the right hand side
The Daily Courier the newspaper here is on the left
it's a great place to visit it's really warm here in the summers lots of
swimming you can
you can get out on the golf courses colonna's going for its goal of course
is there's quite a few of them again the wine tourism
rent a boat go go parasailing that sort of thing I'm in the winters there's lots
of skiing big white is just up the hill Silver Stars up in Vernon apex is down
in Penticton and again you can do that like skating and and different things
there's loads of conferences that come to town
so we're coming around here we'll end up pulling
going down the the main street there on Bernard a moment
there's some old churches here on the left
sighs I pull on to Barnard this is the East End of Barnard we've got a Safeway
here up on the end they just redid Barnard and put in all these beautiful
new light light posts and trees that sort of thing
it is early spring so I guess the end of winter so there the trees haven't
started blooming yet but shortly that'll be happening
there's lots of restaurants on on Bernard as well again they're gonna
be building some more towers here on the right hand side there's an old store so
that's gonna be coming down as well up ahead on the left
in this area there's lots of little shops
restaurants
grateful fed
Lululemon Starbucks is here on the left
some sushi places another coffee shop the being seen the Bread Company
doc Willoughby's
another blends coffee
Memphis blues there's some sushi and barbeque up there as well as it Tim
Horton's you can see the Paramount building up ahead there that used to be
an old movie theater they've taken that out and they put a Tim Horton's
down below it there's also some ice cream shops mix is down there and Earls
on top if you're looking for a beautiful place for dinner in the summer that you
can go up top and they they you sit outdoors and overlook the lake it's
quite beautiful
some of the local police walking around there on the right-hand side
also in this paramount building they put in
beer brewery
this is where that girl's is and the movie because I was talking about
we'll head here into City Park as well it's beautiful down here in the summer
there's some vendors there's people busking floods of events and festivals
car shows that sort of thing
this is kind of at the photos the bridge the William Bennett bridge
that heads across to the West Kelowna got some tennis courts the Kelowna lawn
bowling chord / Club is on the right hand side lots of fields for picnics and
hanging out
there's a waterpark up here for your kids in the summer
also a skatepark as well
lots of parking outdoor washrooms that sort of thing
and down on the other end there there's also
some sports field so thanks for watching I appreciate it
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