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Old Nov 7, 2013, 8:37 pm
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Originally Posted by bryanwallace
thanks again..
i thought an other air flight might be too expensive but seems quite cheap to use as with avios..
are any of these interesting nome,prudhoe bay,kotzubue etc..(anywhere else that as goes)and suitable for kids? barrow seems to go into the next range of avios(over 645miles from anc )so was going to count it out..
this could be interesting!!!
Oh, you're using Avios? Great, Alaska is a partner, and the redemptions ought to be cheap.

Actually, AS flies ANC-OTZ-OME-ANC, so (not sure if you can do an enroute stopover using Adios) combining Nome and Kotzebue is very easy, flight-wise (40 min. apart.)

The two towns are very different - Kotzebue a major Eskimo center (Inupiat) with a lot of cultural activities, Nome a very historic gold rush town (1899) with plenty of artifacts from that era, plus one can hire a car and drive out into the bush on the Seward Peninsula - real wilderness, muskox... fab. Nome is where the Iditarod sled dog race ends every year. It's on the Bering Sea rather than the Arctic Ocean. http://www.visitnomealaska.com/thing...o-in-nome.html

Together they would make for a terrific experience for your families - history, culture, lots of fun activities, the midnight sun, pan for gold... great.
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