Thank you very much Seat 2A for this wonderful tripreport and greetings from Germany.
It brought back memories of our visit to Alaska in late July/early August this year.We are now addicted to Alaska and will return as soon as possible.
We did a combination of a landtour on our own and a cruise.
We flew from DUS-FRA-ORD-ANC on LH/UA.
From ANC we took the train to Denali und two days later to FAI.
Then we picked up a car and drove down to Valdez, then on the AMHS
to Whittier and on to ANC by car . (Ship: M/V Kennicott)
In Denali (July 31, 2005) we took the bus to Kantishna. It was a beautiful
day and DENALI was ,(if possible),allways visible, sometimes without clouds.
The day before it was heavy raining.
During our trip we had only 2 rainy days (from ANC -Denali and Valdez-Whittier-ANC).
Again we took the train from ANC to Seward.Beautiful scenery.
During the Cruise we visited Hubbard Glacier,Juneau,Skagway, Icy Strait and
Ketchikan, Inside Passage, YVR).
One highlight (the whole trip was a highlight) was a flight from Ketchikan to Anan Creek to visit black bears.
We flew with Michelle from Island Wings. It was a 40 year old De Haviland Beaver.
The Scenery was amazing as well as the the bears.We enjoyed every second.
Greetings
Petra and Michael
PS:
Beside our Flights, cruise and car rental ,we made all our reservations( Hotel, train,ferry,daytrips etc... ) direct in Alaska via Internet/E-mail.
Everybody was very very nice and helpful (English is not my native language)and everything went without no problems.