Alaska is the last frontier and a true wilderness. Where else can you sit eating your breakfast and watch a bear walk past the window, followed a while later by a moose and her calf.
Catherine Blackburn, Canada, Alaska & The Arctic Specialist, 01993 838706
Alaska is a land of innumerable glaciers, raging rivers, towering mountains, dense forests, endless tundra, countless islands and great tracts of Arctic coast. But it is so much more than this. It is a land of summer festivals, diverse cultural influences and fascinating history and architecture. Where else will you find Russian Orthodox churches rubbing shoulders with brightly-coloured Norwegian houses and 19th century gold rush towns?
The USA’s largest state, it has a population of 627,000, greatly outnumbered by the caribou. Between May and September, visitors can join Alaskans in Petersburg’s ‘Little Norway Festival’ or Kodiak Island’s ‘Crab Festival’ or even the ‘Nalukataq Festival’ on Barrow’s Arctic shores. Alaska offers some of the best bear watching in the world, while whale watching and fishing are often without peer. The road system seamlessly links to Canada’s Yukon and lends itself to wonderful circular drives through awe-inspiring scenery. Many remote towns, villages and islands can often only be reached by ferry or cruise ship, giving them a mystique all of their own.
The sheer scale of the landscape is rarely equalled anywhere in the world, but it is the friendliness of the Alaskans that makes a visit here a truly never to be forgotten experience.
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Drive the Dalton Highway into the Arctic
The Arctic Circle conjures up images of a cold snowy land, but a trip to the Arctic Circle from Fairbanks will change your view. Take a summer road...
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View Mount Mckinley & abundant wildlife in a pristine wilderness setting
Denali National Park is almost two and a half million hectares of unspoiled wilderness, with an entire ecosystem preserved here providing unrivalled...
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Watching grizzly bears in Katmai National Park
Bear watching in Alaska has to be some of the best. It is possible to get quite close to the grizzly bears of Katmai National Park when you do a bear...
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