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VanDusen Festival of Lights
Over a million lights, reflecting ponds, and a Christmas-tree forest that changes colour to music in a botanical garden.
Arts & Culture
Over a million lights, reflecting ponds, and a Christmas-tree forest that changes colour to music in a botanical garden.
VanDusen drapes its botanical garden in over a million lights and dares you to walk through it without stopping every ten steps for a photo. You will fail that dare. The reflecting ponds double the glow so the whole thing feels twice as extravagant as it has any right to be, and the Christmas-tree forest changes colour in time with the music, which is the sort of detail that sounds slightly absurd until you're standing in front of it going "oh." It is cold. This is a feature, not a flaw. Cold makes the warm-drink stops mandatory rather than optional, cold justifies the scarf situation, and cold is, historically speaking, very good for hand-holding. Bring your softest one, set your photo expectations accordingly high, and plan to stay longer than you planned.
