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[quote=Anonymous]The bus tour in Denali should be considered carefully. And IMO was not worth it especially if you only have 6 days.

We took the day-long tour (I think it was about 8 hours long) and it was uncomfortable and boring. The bus was an old school bus with small bench seats that could barely fit two average size adults. The box lunch we got was inedible. We didn't see any wildlife nearby at all. None.

The bus had video/tv screens in the front and the driver had a long-distance camera connected to it. When he saw something (like sheep) way up on a hill he pointed camera at it and we watched it on the screen as it was nothing but a speck the size of rice if you looked at it yourself. We soon realized ... we were essentially watching grainy videos of animals on a screen - something we could have done anywhere.

We completely understood that you can't command animals to appear in natural settings, but this bus tour seemed like a loooong waste of time to us.

When we finished the disappointing tour, there were several moose wandering around the parking lot right at the visitors center! Also saw moose/bear when just driving around on our own.

Didn't see a single one of either during Denali bus drive. [/quote]

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