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If you have ever thought of visiting Alaska, this would be my advice: DO IT! However, I would strongly recommend that you do your homework, advice alaska travel , before you go touring in Southeast Alaska. Either by mail, by telephone, or by searching websites, find out all you can about the city or town you wish to visit. The more you know before you leave home, the more you will enjoy your visit to a new and strange place.
Listed below are email addresses and phone numbers of Visitors Bureaus within major Southeast Alaska communities:
Juneau: info@traveljuneau.com Toll free phone: 1- 888-581-2201 Ketchikan: info@visit-ketchikan.com Toll free phone: 1- 800-770-3300 Sitka: scvb@sitka.org Phone: 907-747-3739 Skagway: infoskag@aptalaska.net Toll-Free: 1-888-762-1898
If you arrive on a cruise ship through the Inside Passage, you will be able to enjoy only, advice alaska travel , a limited few hours at each stop along the way. So, you should try to find out all you can about each little village or even the big towns where your ship stops - read all the travel brochures that are offered by the various Visitor's Bureaus. Do a lot of research on the web. Just about every little hamlet has some kind of website, advice alaska travel , where you can find valuable information.
If, advice alaska travel , your cruise is confined to Southeast Alaska, I would recommend Glacier Bay National Monument as one to include in your itinerary. Within its boundaries are awesome glaciers that you can view from the comfort of your warm cabin aboard ship, advice alaska travel , . The landscape within the Bay is spectacular, and not seen in too many other places in the world.
Cruise ship stops can include some, advice alaska travel , of the larger cities like Ketchikan, Juneau, and Sitka. The little town of Skagway near the northern end of the Inside Passage offers the hiking trail over the Chilkoot Pass that was made famous in the late 1890s during the Klondike Gold Rush. It stretches 33 miles from Dyea, Alaska to Bennett, British Columbia. Another means of travel over part of the trail is the White Pass & Yukon Route narrow gauge railway that was built in 1898. It is an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark - a designation shared with icons like the Panama Canal, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. The WP&YR is Alaska's most popular shore excursion and North America's busiest tourist railroad, carrying 461,388 passengers in 2007.
Weather permitting, hiking some of the trails of Southeast Alaska is one way to view and enjoy its awesome beauty. With more than 250 miles of trails (many within minutes of downtown), Juneau is a great place for hiking. The trails range from fairly flat and wide (some even accessible by wheelchair) to strenuous uphill paths for the 'in shape' hikers.
If, after you do all your research, and you still do not have an answer to a specific question about Juneau, Alaska, or about a specific tourist attraction here (and you want a local's opinion), I will be glad to help. Send me your inquiry via email to: irving@gci.net and I will try to give you an answer or recommend someone who can.
Tourists to our capital city of Juneau not only come to visit Alaska and its many beautiful and awesome sites, they also come to be informed. Many ask questions - some interesting - some mundane - some laughable - some even downright unbelievable. Having helped greet some of those tourists to our little bit of paradise, I have always tried to be courteous as I impart to them my own little bit of knowledge, advice alaska travel , . Some of these questions could, advice alaska travel , have been asked in other cities and towns throughout our state and our country.
Hopefully, these answers that I show below will be helpful for you to use in San Diego, Seattle, or even in New York City. Just remember to be respectfully smiling as you give a stupid answer to an even more stupid question. I have been lucky in that, so, advice alaska travel , far, all of the questioners have accepted my answers and smiles with the same amount of smiling, advice alaska travel , in return. In fact, we often have a good laugh together as we go on to their next question:
Q: What is the elevation here in Juneau? A: It depends on whether it's low tide or high tide. Usually we're at sea level.
Q: Do you take American money here? A: Yes, but we only accept it. We try not to take it - that's against the law.
Q: Where can I buy a T-shirt with an imprint of a 'hunchback' whale? A: Golly! I don't think there are any. Maybe that specie, advice alaska travel , of whale doesn't migrate this far north.
Q: What does it cost to telephone to America? A: It depends on how long you talk.
Q: Do the Fish and Game people help the mother bear deliver her cubs? A: Not any more. They ran out of volunteers. The sows are now on their own.
Q: (Upon seeing deer) Are those mooses? A: No, those are deers.
Hopefully, this upcoming tourist season will bring more of these doozie questions. As I hear them or as they are reported to me, I will try to post them. At the same time, I will send along my recommendations for courteous answers as well my suggestions as to interesting tourist attractions.
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