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Alaska Cruise: Ice Age Odyssey begins

The ooohhs and ahhhs start as the Alaska cruise effortlessly glides north through the Inside Passage 1000 miles that runs along the coast of British Columbia and southern Alaska Panhandle.

Alaska is located in the northwest corner of the continent of America North. Almost one third living in the Arctic Circle Canada separated by 48 states.

Alaska has a total area of 663,267 miles and is square largest state in the U.S. It has an east-west width is equal to the width of the 48 states.

He spends thousands of densely forested islands total of 40,000 km coast, all kissed by the placid waters of fjords, inlets, bays and chaos created by glacial rise of millions of years ago.

Mountain Tower as high as 15,000 feet above the sea, waterfalls run down the face, and Bald Eagles soar overhead. Youre in the homeland of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Indians, and his ship may dock in Canadian ports en route. All this, and his odyssey Ice age has just begun.

For most cruise lines, first Alaska port is Ketchikan, where a wealth of traditional Native American culture expects, including the worlds largest collection of totem poles.

Nearby, you'll be mesmerized by Misty Fjords National Monument Tongass National Forest, a temperate rainforest with abundant wildlife and ancient conifer ecosystems of the worlds rarest and largest national forest in the U.S.

Highlights include trips northern passage Sitka, the Russian capital of Alaska from 1808 to 1867 Juneau, with the massive Juneau Icefield glacierinfested, Tracy Arm Fjord and picturesque waterfalls.

Choose a cruise that sails to Alaska Skagway, and you float glassysurfaced Glacier Bay on a stretch of 72 miles of pristine beauty unmatched in the world. Vela grinding past high cliffs rising above the water, could see a group of humpback whales breach the surface, a dull brown bear along the coast and a sea otter floating on his back while ate the food.

The meeting of the glacier after the spectacular glaciers and hear the powerful sounds explosionlike gigantic blocks of ice crashing into the emerald water, then is a witness to the Ice Age of the distant past.

Disenchantment Bay is home to the creaks, groans, constantly Hubbard Glacier calving, glacier tide over in Alaska, which covers 76 miles from its source Yukon, Mt. Logan, head of Yukatat Bay.

The glacier cuts a wide swath through the mountains like a huge river of ice toward the sea. small icebergs inhabited by seabirds and seals add to the surreal atmosphere on the road. If you're lucky, you white thunder will experience huge chunks of ice crash into the bay.

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