www.trekmaerica.co.uk With the onset of spring, Alaska once more becomes accessible, with isolated settlements preparing to welcome visitors once more. Combine magnificent sea-life with some of Alaska’s wildest tundra landscapes on a 14-day tour offered by adventure specialist TrekAmerica, departing Anchorage 29th May 2005. Other dates are available.
The tour follows the snow-capped Chugach Mountains, past the Mantanuska Glacier to explore the vast wilderness of the Alaska Mountain Range before joining one of Alaska’s most famous landmarks, the Alaskan Pipeline, heading to the frontier town of Fairbanks.
In Denali NP hiking is possiblein the company of moose, caribou, fox and grizzly bear in the shadow of the Athabascan Indians’ Denali – ‘The Great One’ – Mt McKinley to the uninitiated.
The tour also includes sculpted icebergs in Portage Lake followed by the misty and mysterious Kenai Fjords NP and finally hiking up Exit Glacier to Harding Icefields. There is a chance to go boating off the coast (keep an eye out for Killer Whales and glaciers carving icebergs into the sea) and canoe the waters of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge with bald eagles soaring overhead.
The tour ends with hiking at the ‘end-of-the-road’ settlement of Homer which will work up an appetite for freshly caught Halibut and an optional boat journey to a luxury wildlife camp offers an opportunity to experience true Alalskan adventures in this remote wilderness paradise. The tour concludes in Anchorage, returning via the old Russian settlements of Ninilchik and Kenai.
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