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Dall Sheep ALASKA
Denali Fairbanks
Talkeetna
Anchorage CANADA
Juneau
Seward Haines Tracy Arm or
Endicott Arm
Kenai Fjords Wrangell
Misty Fjords
Ketchikan
Sitka
Cedar planked
salmon
Gulf of Alaska
Vancouver
Inside Passage

Route line is approximate.
USA

DAY 6 • SCENIC CRUISING KENAI DAY 10 • HAINES, ALASKA or stretch out in your suite. You’ll know this
FJORDS NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA This quaint little town on North America’s is definitely the way to see Misty Fjords.
Appreciate the small size of Star Breeze all longest fjord borders 20 million acres of Want to power your very own vessel to see
the more as we navigate the breathtaking protected wilderness. Outdoor adventures the sights? Take a kayak trek for the paddle
waters of Kenai Fjords National Park — a are obviously high on the list here, from of a lifetime.
place where larger ships can’t follow. Watch kayak and raft trips to photo safaris. But DAY 14 • KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
from the comfort of your suite or stand at you can also pass a very pleasant day just
the rail as one magnificent scene follows strolling the streets, meeting the locals, The waterway hums with float planes,
another, listening as fellow guests call out and browsing shops filled with Native Tlingit and boardwalks, colorful stilted buildings,
sightings of sea lions, puffins, and whales. arts and crafts. and a profusion of steep wooden staircases
inviting you to explore. The town stretches
DAY 7 • AT SEA DAY 11 • JUNEAU, ALASKA 31 miles along the coast but is never more
DAY 8 • SITKA, ALASKA Alaska’s isolated capital city hugs the shore than 10 blocks wide, squeezed to the shore
by the steep hillsides. You’ll find plenty to
This humble port city was once the capital of Gastineau Channel with breathtaking do within just a few minutes of the pier,
of Russian America. In fact, back when scenery and glaciers all around. Of the from Dolly’s House Museum in a former
San Francisco had fewer than ten residents, 30-some glaciers in the Juneau Ice Field, bordello on Creek Street to Saxman Native
Sitka was a boomtown of 800. Explore the only one — Taku Glacier — is still advancing. Village with its totem poles and native dances.
Russian and Tlingit cultures that influenced Fly over it in a helicopter, then land to peer
its growth and capture an iconic photo of down into a crevasse and taste the purity of DAY 15 • SCENIC CRUISING
the Russian Orthodox Church, or head to glacial streams. CANADIAN INSIDE PASSAGE
the Alaska Raptor Center for a close-up DAY 12 • WRANGELL, ALASKA There’s a reason this region is so popular
look at bald eagles and other birds of prey. Bears, petroglyphs, and totem poles with yachtsmen. You could spend years
DAY 9 • SCENIC CRUISING TRACY just scratch the surface of Wrangell’s exploring this archipelago and never
ARM OR ENDICOTT ARM, ALASKA attractions. Hike to Rainbow Falls, go discover all the hidden coves, secluded
villages, and magnificent landscapes.
Today you’ll have the opportunity to see fishing, or visit the local museum to learn Sunset is a special time as the light turns
tidewater glaciers up close and personal on about the town’s unique claim to fame as the passage red and silver.
a Zodiac tour, a kayak expedition, or cruising the only Alaskan city to have existed under
in the comfort of Star Breeze. At Tracy Arm four nations — the Stikine Tlingits, Russia, DAY 16 • VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA
we follow the ice to its source up the Great Britain, and the United States. The city that began as a frontier fur trading
30-mile-long fjord to twin Sawyer Glaciers DAY 13 • SCENIC CRUISING post is now a bustling metropolis with an
to watch enormous slabs of ice calve off the MISTY FJORDS, ALASKA almost unfair boon of jawdropping natural
glacier’s face. When ice makes the route Cruise past all the big ships’ shore excursion beauty and thriving culture. Take it all in on
impassable, we cruise the wider Endicott boats in the comfort of the intimate and your way to Canada Place Cruise Terminal.
Arm to Dawes Glacier. nimble Star Breeze. Enjoy a drink, a bite,

DEPARTURE DATES:
Star Breeze: Jun 5, 20 ; Jul 27 *; Aug 28 , 2023
*Itinerary varies, visit WindstarCruises.com for details.
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