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Fairbanks
Denali
Talkeetna ALASKA
Anchorage
Haines
Juneau
Tracy Arm
Misty Fjords
Alaska Sitka Ketchikan

Ketchikan, Alaska CANADA
Gulf of Alaska
Vancouver
Canadian Inside Passage

USA
Route line is approximate.

before finishing the drive to Seward for your calve off the glacier’s face. If ice blocks historic wooden boardwalk — while salmon
included flight to Juneau to board your Tracy Arm, we’ll cruise the broader swirl in the creek below. A profusion of
waiting ship. Endicott Arm with similar scenery. steep wooden staircases climb the hillsides
(Includes breakfast, flight from Anchorage DAY 8 • SITKA, ALASKA like an Escher-esque painting, linking
and then all meals onboard your ship.) This humble port city was once the capital weathered, wooden homes and Nob Hill
mansions. At either end of town you’ll find
DAY 6 • HAINES, ALASKA of Russian America, and was where the Tlingit and Haida culture from totem poles
Haines is one of the best places for hiking, official transfer of Alaska took place in 1867. to clan houses and native dancers.
fishing and wildlife viewing, especially bald Explore the Russian and Tlingit cultures that DAY 11 • SCENIC CRUISING
eagles. See Fort William H. Seward, a influenced its growth, capture an iconic CANADIAN INSIDE PASSAGE
nationally recognized historic landmark. photo of the Russian Orthodox church,
Take in other cultural offerings in Haines or head to the Alaska Raptor Center for The sheltering archipelago of Canada’s
including the Alaska Indian Arts Center a close-up look at bald eagles and other Inside Passage unfolds in layers of deep
where traditional craftsmen demonstrate birds of prey. forest green on a sea the color of kelp and
their work, the Sheldon Museum & Cultural DAY 9 • MISTY FJORDS, ALASKA oyster. We twist and turn around undulating
Center featuring local Tlingit people, the John Muir first viewed Misty Fjords by islands as you enjoy the passing scenery of
Hammer Museum, and the Tsirku Canning cedar canoe, comparing it to his beloved centuries-old coastal rainforests, cascading
Company Museum with memories of Yosemite. And today it looks much as it waterfalls, bald eagles, orcas, and seals
Haines’ salmon canneries. did back then, one of the last places on sunbathing on rocky shores.

DAY 7 • SCENIC CRUISING TRACY earth where you can explore vast swaths of DAY 12 • VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA
ARM OR ENDICOTT ARM, ALASKA rugged, remote area untouched by humans. Disembark your ship in Vancouver, a city
Follow ice debris up stunningly beautiful With silt-blue lakes, silvery waterfalls, and that began as a frontier fur trading post but
Tracy Arm, a fjord that terminates at the snowcapped peaks, you’ll get a postcard now possesses an almost unfair boon of
twin Sawyer Glaciers. Sheer mountain picture literally everywhere you turn, jaw-dropping natural beauty and thriving
peaks loom above you and waterfalls stream depending on the weather of course. Get culture. If you have time, take in attractions
off the rocky cliffs. Mountain goats look even closer on an optional Windstar including Stanley Park, Gastown and
down from above and harbor seals with their Signature Expedition Zodiac tour. Chinatown.
pups watch from ice floes below. Our small DAY 10 • KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
ship is much more maneuverable than larger Ketchikan is some 3 miles long but only a
ships, giving us a better chance of reaching few blocks wide, squeezed between Tongass
all the way up the passage. When weather Narrows and the steep slopes of Deer
and ice conditions permit, we’ll watch ice Mountain. Colorful businesses occupy

former bordellos along Creek Street — a

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Star Breeze: Jul 16, 2023

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