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Jonathan
What i not knew is what to do best at the Ports we go.
I was before in Vancouver and Victoria, but not in the other Ports except Los Angeles.
Should you have any Advice for me, it is welcome.
Thanks for Assistance and the good Whishes of the Others.
Skagway: You have to take the famouse train to the White Pass! If you have time left take also do a helicopter trip from there to fly over Glacier Bay. (though my fligt over Glacier Bay has been cancelled due to bad weather....)
Ketchikan: Difficult to say - the Lodge overlooking Ketchikan is very nice (there is a cable car going up the small hill) - probalby you can do this whatever excursion you do. I took a waterplane to do some bear watching (black bears) - a very nicer trip nice, but concerning bear watching Kodiak island is just better.
Juneau - take a whale-watching trip; you're almost guaranteed a sighting of humpbacks. Take the aerial tram up Mount Roberts, it's just across the road from thev quay, and the views are spectacular, especially of your ship down below.
Skagway - helicopter trip which lands you on a glacier, and a trip on the White Pass railroad. You might even have time for a dash through the shops as well.
Ketchikan - flightseeing trip in a floatplane over the Misty Fjords national park, including a touchdown on the water. Spectacular.
None of this is cheap, of course. On a seven-day Inside Passage round-trip cruise with RCI (Radiance of the Seas) from Vancouver in 2003, my wife and I spent about £1,200 (sterling) on excursions alone, but it was worth every penny.
Bon Voyage!
Juneau: Did a kyacking excursion it was wonderful very relaxing and saw eagles catching fish and just some really nice sites and we got very close to the glacier there in Juneau also.
quote:Originally posted by greybeard: [...]Ketchikan - flightseeing trip in a floatplane over the Misty Fjords national park, including a touchdown on the water. Spectacular.None of this is cheap, of course. On a seven-day Inside Passage round-trip cruise with RCI (Radiance of the Seas) from Vancouver in 2003, my wife and I spent about £1,200 (sterling) on excursions alone, but it was worth every penny.
I nearly forgot Misty Fjords! - The excuse is, I have been there by ship. (forget the (black) bear watching)
Alaska is certainly a destination where one can spend money ashore a bit more easily. (the amount mentioned above is the order of magnitude one has to expect - if not even a bit more)
[ 04-18-2006: Message edited by: Ernst ]
In 1999 in Canada i was River-rafting with my Wife on the Clearwater River in British Columbia.
That was an very good Experience.
British Columbia is definitive an Place, where i want to come back.
In 1999 we had an Chrysler Dodge Intrepid and go from Vancouver to Manning Park - Penticton - Revelstoke - Banff - Jasper - Clearwater - 100 Mile House - Smithers - Prince Rupert - Port Hardy -Campbell River - Tofino - Victoria and back to Vancouver, 26 Nights in Hotels.
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