Reply to Traveling to Alaska? Anyone been?

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "Traveling to Alaska? Anyone been? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]It was one of our best trips ever.  Here are some of the things we did.  
Anchorage:  we went to a show on the Northern Lights.  On Saturday there is a market in town.  
We took a drive down the Turnagian Arm to the town of Hope - not much to do, just pretty.  If you do this, you have to know not to walk on the quick sand.
We took a day trip on a glacier cruise and another to hike on a glacier (that was about an hour or so north of Anchorage and it was the only place we found where you could actually hike on the glacier).

Then we went to North Pole and Fairbanks.  In Fairbanks we took the river boat cruise.  We made a stop in Chena Hot Springs - if I were doing it again, I would have spent the night there instead of in Fairbanks.

Then we went to Denali.  We took a bus trip into the park one day, stayed in cabins outside the park for two nights (the restaurant had the best pancakes I've ever had in my life).  We went back and hiked in Denali for awhile, but you can't go very far into the park unless you are on a bus trip.

Then we went to Seward and Kenai Fjords.  While there, we did another glacier boat trip, went on an Iditarod ride - they teach you about the iditarod and then take you for a ride by hooking the dogs up to sleds.  We went to Exit Glacier.  The only other thing I remember doing was Mount Alyeska Tram in Girdwood, which was on the way back to Anchorage from Seward.

I wrote to the chamber of commerce in Alaska and they sent me a travel guide that lists all of this stuff and more.  I was traveling with three kids, including a 2 year old, so I was limited in what I could do.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics