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To make your Alaska Cruise the most memorable trip of your lifetime, try these 9 things I did that turned my Alaska Cruise into a life-changing and incredible trip of a lifetime
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most people will only go on an Alaska
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Inside passage Cruise once so every day
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must be special and really memorable
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that's where I come in as for my
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multiple cruises there I think I know
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what you can do to make it so as some of
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these activities can be costly as you'll
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see I also have an exploring Alaska
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ports without breaking the bank video
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that will help you balance out your
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budget if these are a bit too much more
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on that later meanwhile welcome aboard
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I'm Gary bambridge and let's start with
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three ports that you'll almost certainly
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be calling
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on Juno is the capital of Alaska it was
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founded by two Prospectors Richard
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Harris and Joseph Juno they discovered
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gold there they triggered a major Gold
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Rush and people flooded into what was
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first called Harrisburg and eventually
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became known as Juno about 30,000 people
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lived there the gold mines closed way
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back in 1940 and its main business now
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is being the administrative capital of
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Alaska and tourism What epic things
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should you do in Juno while many people
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think going to view the menen hle glacia
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just outside Juno about 12 miles away is
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incredible which it is but going dog
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sledding on the glacier itself totally
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trumps it it's the best trip I have ever
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done anywhere a helicopter whisked me
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over Juno over the Juno ice field before
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landing on the glacier there were around
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150 racing husky dogs there their train
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there and spend the summer season there
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I then went on a dog sledding Adventure
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it was an incredible experience off the
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ride there was time to interact with the
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dogs before the helicopters return with
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the next set of guests and to fly me
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back to Juno while it was a phenomenal
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experience it is very pricey around $600
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plus per person that's why on a return
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visit instead I went for the next best
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thing which is a helicopter up onto the
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menall glacia but here you just walk
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across the surface this to was memorable
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it was thrilling and it was about half
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the cost now if those eyew watering sums
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are in nogo I guarantee you and your
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family and friends will will find
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visiting the menal glacia and the Nugget
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Falls next to it up close a stunning
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experience it's 12 Mi out of town and I
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do explain the best ways to do that in
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my exploring Alaska ports without going
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broke video another epic thing to do in
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Juno is going up the gold belt Mount
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Roberts traway it's one of the steepest
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cable car rides in the world and at the
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top of the mountain you'll see views
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across the area that you will absolutely
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cherish forever up there I always always
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go when I'm in Juno there is another
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adventure I do every time I go to Alaska
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but this one is actually in Skagway it's
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so fantastic and I will never ever Tire
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of doing it now skag became famous as
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the gateway to the Klondike in the Ukon
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Canada when gold was discovered there
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going via Skagway was actually the
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easiest way of reaching the goldfields
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even though they and Skagway are many
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hundreds of miles away 30,000
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Prospectors headed to Skagway using the
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chilot or the White Pass behind the city
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to get to the Yukon over the mountains
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the White Pass and Yukon Railway was
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built to make it easier for Prospectors
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to get the go fields and to transport or
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and the cargo back the railway ran from
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1900 until
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1982 in the late 1990s it was
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resurrected as a tourist attraction
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traveling from Skagway up many thousands
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of feet right up to the White Pass
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Summit while you can actually go further
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into Canada on some trips the best trip
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in my view is the 40m return trip to the
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summit and back the views are incredible
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as the train twists and turns of the
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mountain there's live commentary about
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the route and the history and the train
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itself is just brilliant whilst the
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regular carriages are great on some
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trips I've been on there was a luxury
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parlor car Option but it cost almost
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three times the standard Carriage price
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of around $140 it holds 14 people in big
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comfy seats there's a dedicated guide
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who serve drinks and food fantastic if
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booking is an Excursion with your line
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by the way the railway usually allocates
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a train per ship and you board right
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next to your ship either before or after
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the train do spend time exploring
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Skagway Town itself as it still mostly
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has original buildings they have great
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stories behind them and it my budget
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exploring video I have tips on how to
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get the most when exploring that Skagway
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town in the next sport ketan there is
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actually one of the most fun things that
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you can do in Alaska I love it kesan
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started as an indigenous people's
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fishing camp and rapidly grew after
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salmon Canary was founded in the 1800s
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it's the self- declared salmon capital
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of the world although forestry and
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lumberjacking were a major industry for
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a Time nowadays tum is actually the main
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activity here so what should you do in
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ketan that is fun and pretty epic the
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most spectacular activity here is a
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float plain sightseeing flight over the
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tongas national forest to the Misty FS
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National Monument through ancient times
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volcanoes and Ice carved stunning
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scenery in theory they claim on these
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flights you will see Eagles Bears D
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mountain goat seals maybe even whales
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but in my experience you're not going to
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see that from the plane
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these are pretty costly again around
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about $300 for an hour trip so there are
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instead of that three really fun things
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that I actually usually do instead when
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I'm in ketukan first of these is such a
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laugh it's the Great Alaskan Lumberjack
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Show on the site of the old Ketchikan
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Spruce Mill two Lumberjack teams United
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States and Canada battle it out in
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increasingly spectacular and
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crowd-pleasing wood chopping
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competitions it's done tongue and cheek
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it's a really really really fun activity
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definitely do that not far away is Creek
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Street these are original and colorful
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wooden buildings on stilts built over
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the ketukan creek it was the red light
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district from the early 1900s right up
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believe it or not to
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1954 each building has a story they're
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now mostly craft and souvenir shops one
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is Dolly's House Museum home of one of
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the most infamous of the madams ketukan
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is also by the way renowned for the
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around 80 totem poles in the city and
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surrounds now my favorite place to see
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them is at the 11 acre totem bite State
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Historical Park this was actually
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created right back in the 1930s as so
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many indigenous native people were
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starting to move into the centers for
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work there was a lot of concern that
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some of the Heritage and the culture
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would be lost particularly the beautiful
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storytelling totems so a group of them
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were collected and they were preserved
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now the entrance fee there includes a
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guided tour telling you all about the
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history the story of each Paul it's not
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that far of ketan and you can get there
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on a trolley bus tour uh or buy taxi now
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while there are three main ports on most
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Alaska Inside passage Cruise there is
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actually one destination that is crucial
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to making any Alaska experience epic
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it's also one that you're not going to
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get off the ship when you get there and
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this is glacia
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Bay if you're planning an Alaska inside
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Cruise make sure it is one that will
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will be going into glacia Bay not many
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cruise lines and ships do because only
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two cruise ships per day are allowed in
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the three lines that have most access
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are Holland America and Princess because
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they've been going to Alaska longer than
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any other lines and Norwegian Cruise
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Line other lines will go to other
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Glacier areas like Tracy arm which is
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great but it lacks the scale and the
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range of glaciers in glacia Bay now I've
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been to glacia Bay on both Holland
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America and Princess cruisers on past
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trips the glacia bay National Park and
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Reserve is a magical and really
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important place to see glaciers it's
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overall 3.2 million Acres large but on
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the ship you get to see several really
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impressive Tidewater glaciers including
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the Reed Glacier the John Hopkins
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Glacier and the most impressive of all
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the majeri glacia the cruise and the
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ship will spend many hours kind of
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cruising between these different
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glaciers the National Park Rangers join
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the ship they give talks and commentary
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why in the bay at margary glacia the
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ship will spend quite a lot of time
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there with everyone out on Deck hoping
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to see The glacia Carving which it often
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does in the summer and that is just
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amazing it would definitely be something
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epic in my view nothing beats glacia Bay
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and you're going to be short changed if
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you're on a cruise that does not go
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there depending on when you are cruising
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well spotting and sightseeing is likely
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very likely to happen on an Inside
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passage Cruise it's a memorable and
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humbling experience and will make your
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creu Cruise Epic on my last hland
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America Alaska cruise I was told that
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over 500 humpback whales are in Alaska's
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Inside passage for part of the season
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with June and July being the key months
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as I discovered then the first sign of a
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whale is when you're out on Deck you see
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a plume of like steam that Springs up
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from the water orcas who feed on salmon
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in the Alaska Inside passage can also be
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spotted early in the season early May to
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early June around ketan and Juno I've
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not seen them to be honest if you really
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want to see whales the best ports for
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boat excursions to find whales and see
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them are Juno and Ketchikan and the
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lions will usually have a number of
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options they do though start from around
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$175 per person as Inside passage
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Cruisers are increasingly starting to
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call on ports like Sitka for example as
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a region grows in popularity I do have
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some great fantastic and lowcost
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opportunities and things to do there in
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my exploring Alaska without breaking the
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bank video along with Amazing Ideas of
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things to do in those other ports if
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these ones are just too much for you so
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why don't you watch that now to find out
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what they are see you over there
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