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Ideas to inspire you from Amazing Alaska Family Vacations
Your family can revel in Alaska's most charming towns and set sight on Alaska's abundant wildlife in their natural habitats, from breaching 40-ton humpback whales, roaming bears and soaring bald eagles. See Majestic Glaciers & Denali on a Land & Sea Vacation! It's a journey equal parts exhilarating and inspiring. Consider the ultimate Alaska land and sea vacation, featuring a tour director escort, personal service and most meals on land included. Spend 5 to 8 nights on land at Princess wilderness lodges visiting Denali and perhaps, sensational places like Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and/or the Kenai Peninsula. Plus great advice for family travel from Certified Alaska Cruise Experts. A land of rugged hills, rushing waters and undisturbed wildlife, Alaska is as big as it is wild. Whether you're watching whales splash in the Pacific Ocean, gazing up at towering ice formations like the Hubbard Glacier or journeying by train deep into the last frontier on Anchorage's Coastal Classic Railroad, Alaska is sure to quench any explorer's thirst.
Recommended Reading
Fodor's The Complete Guide to Alaska Cruises
(Full-color Travel Guide) Paperback
Written by locals, Fodor's The Complete Guide to Alaska Cruises is the perfect guidebook for those looking for inside tips to make the most of their visit to Alaska by cruise ship. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this Alaska Cruise travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease.
With detailed profiles of every major cruise line and ship sailing in Alaska, not to mention concise and practical overviews of more than 20 top ports and major inland destinations, this guide offers Alaska cruise passengers everything they need to know to plan their cruise. Combined with an extensive and practical cruise-planning chapter, this book really is a complete and comprehensive guide to Alaska cruises.
Fodor's The Complete Guide to Alaska Cruises includes:
:: UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE: From detailed information on planning an Alaska cruise to reviews on the latest big- and small-ship cruise lines and ships to head to Alaska, this new edition is the most complete guide to Alaska cruises on the market. Destinations include the top ports as well as the top inland cruise-tour destinations.
:: ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE: A spectacular color photo guide captures the ultimate unmissable experiences and attractions throughout Alaska's major cruise ports to inspire you.
:: PULLOUT MAP AND DETAILED MAPS: A handy pullout map of Alaska will help you navigate on the go. Full color and full-size street maps throughout will inspire and help you get around confidently.
:: GORGEOUS PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATED FEATURES: Full-color photos will help inspire you. Stunning magazine-style, illustrated color features focus on whales, glaciers, Alaska Gold Rush history, and beautiful local handicrafts you can buy in many ports. Guides to the state's flora and fauna help you spot your favorites. Illustrated cruise ship reviews help you pick the right ship and line.
:: TOP RECOMMENDATIONS: Includes tips on where to eat, stay, and shop as well as information about nightlife, sports and the outdoors. "Fodor's Choice" designates their best picks in every category.
:: INDISPENSABLE TRIP PLANNING TOOLS: They give you all the planning tools you need to tailor your trip and choose the cruise that best suits you: reviews of cruise lines and ships, overviews of all the major Alaska cruise itineraries, and an extensive practical planning chapter to help you understand what's included in the fare (and not) and how to make the most of your time on board your chosen ship.
:: COVERS: Denali National Park, Fairbanks, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak Island, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, Whittier, and more.
ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor's has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years.
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BEAR NECESSITIES
Everyone loves fresh wild Alaska salmon - including Alaska's bears. Here are
a few exceptional places to see bears bringing in the catch of the day. Seeing
the bears in their natural habitat is a dream activity for many Alaska visitors.
And this time of year, as salmon are making their way upstream in rivers across
Alaska, is a perfect time to do it. Why? Bears - especially along Alaska's
coasts - are congregating to catch a few tasty meals before heading into
hibernation later this fall.
Bears + Salmon = Catch of the Day
Ketchikan is known as Alaska's "first city" due to its location at the southern tip of the Inside Passage - it is the first city you reach as you cruise north, and for many visitors, their first introduction to the beauty and majesty of Alaska.
Top 7 Things To Do in Ketchikan
SEEK THE SUMMIT
The snowcapped summit of Denali can be seen from more than 100 miles away, dwarfing the other mountains of the Alaska Range with its enormity. Fortunately, there are a number of great spots to catch a glimpse of the mountain named The Great One by the Dena'ina Athabascan people. One of the most popular places to go to experience Denali is Denali National Park.
Denali is home to Alaska's Big Five - bears, moose, Dall sheep, wolves, and caribou
GOLD-RUSH STAMPEDERS
Skagway rarely disappoints visitors. A seven-block corridor along Broadway features historic false-front shops and restaurants, wooden sidewalks, locals in period costumes and restored buildings, many of which are part of the National Park Service-managed Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Beginning in 1897, Skagway and the nearby ghost town of Dyea was the starting place for more than 40,000 gold-rush stampeders who headed to the Yukon primarily by way of the Chilkoot Trail. Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, the White Pass & Yukon Route is a marvel of engineering despite the harsh weather and challenging geography faced by thousands of railroad construction workers. 121 years later we can take you on a journey to see Skagway splendid panorama of mountains, glaciers and gorges; waterfalls, tunnels and trestles. Along the way, you will climb nearly 3,000 feet in elevation in just 20 miles!
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Often, visiting Alaska has as much to do with what people may feel as with what they will see. There is a mystique that surrounds Alaska. To some it represents a dream, a trip of a life time, a life altering event, a chance to reach out and touch something inside themselves that is wild and beautiful like they imagine Alaska to be. Our job is to put that dream - or as much as possible of it - within reach of you.
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