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Cruisetour 6N: 10-Night Heart of Alaska
Vancouver to Fairbanks

  • Travel Sequence: Cruise first, then Tour.
    7-night Voyage of the Glaciers Cruise with 3-night Land Tour featuring 1-night Mt. McKinley Princess Lodge, 1-night Denali Princess Lodge and 1-nights Fairbanks.
  • Ship: Island Princess
  • 2008 Sail dates: Jun 28, Jul 12, Jul 26, Aug 9, Aug 23, Sep 6.
    Cruise tours highlights:
  • Glacier Bay National Park cruising
  • McKinley Express rail
  • Natural History Tour into Denali National Park
  • Riverboat Cruise in Fairbanks


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Cruise Tour Itinerary
Day Port Arrival Departure
1
 Sail from Vancouver, B.C.
Port
Arrival
Departure
1
 Vancouver, British Columbia
12:00 AM
 4:30 PM
2
 At Sea
3
 Ketchikan, Alaska
6:30 AM
 2:00 PM
4
 Juneau, Alaska
8:00 AM
 9:00 PM
5
 Skagway, Alaska
7:00 AM
 8:30 PM
6
 Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska (Scenic Cruising)
6:00 AM
 3:00 PM
7
 College Fjord, Alaska (Scenic Cruising)
5:30 PM
 8:30 PM
8
 Anchorage (Whittier), Alaska
12:30 AM
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Day Destination
8
 Whittier/Mt. McKinley
Step off your ship and onto your rail car. The McKinley Express takes you directly to Talkeetna. Continue to the Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge for the night. Enjoy the rest of the day at your leisure.
9
 Mt. McKinley/Denali
Travel by motorcoach to the Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge. Upon arrival, take a Natural History Tour into Denali National Park. Spend the rest of the day at the lodge as you choose.
10
 Denali/Fairbanks
This morning enjoy motorcoach sightseeing to Fairbanks. Cruise on an authentic sternwheeler riverboat down the Chena and Tanana Rivers. Overnight in Fairbanks.
11
 Fairbanks
Your tour ends this morning in Fairbanks.

- Information above subject to change, please confirm details at time of booking.

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    Alaska National Parks Highlights
    Possessing half of America’s National Parks, Alaska truly offers some of Mother Nature’s best work. Stretching across a staggering 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is the largest parcel of land, but its sister parks—Glacier Bay, Denali, Kenai Fjords, and Gates of the Arctic—share equally in beauty and natural wonders.

Glacier Bay National Park

    Spread across an impressive 3.3-million acres, southeastern Alaska’s scenic coastal islands, narrow fjords and substantial wildlife offer an inspirational glimpse of pristine beauty.
    The highest concentration of tidewater glaciers on the planet can be found at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Access to this natural wonderland is extremely limited and not all cruise lines can offer this access. But as a leader in the business, Princess Cruises is proud to include Glacier Bay on every one of our exclusive Voyage of the Glaciers cruises or Alaska Cruisetours (combined cruise and land tour).
  • A Changing Landscape
    When John Muir discovered Glacier Bay in 1879, he surveyed the unblemished panorama and declared it "still in the morning of creation." Nearly a century earlier, George Vancouver's ships sailed right past it because a wall of ice sealed off the entrance to the bay. But over the last 200 years, the ice has been steadily receding, revealing a stark landscape that is slowly being taken over by vegetation unable to resist the fresh rock and soil. The result is a lush, temperate rainforest of spruces and hemlocks that carpets large portions of the stunning terrain.
  • Tarr Inlet
    At the head of Glacier Bay is the Tarr Inlet, where scientists have found exposed rock that's believed to be more than 200 million years old. The Tarr Inlet is home to the Grand Pacific Glacier, an active body of ice that's slowly making its way toward the Margerie Glacier, which it last touched in 1912.
  • Johns Hopkins Inlet
    As you cruise by the northeastern edge of the robust Fairweather Range, you'll enter the Johns Hopkins Inlet, home to no less than nine glaciers. Framed by rocky slopes that stretch skyward more than 6,000 feet, these wondrous bodies are eclipsed only by the mighty Mount Fairweather itself, which at more than 15,300 feet is the highest point in southeast Alaska.
  • Muir Glacier
    In the northeastern corner of Glacier Bay, the snow-covered Takhinsha Mountains feed the active Muir Glacier, which regularly sheds walls of ice into the bay. The brilliant blue glow of a calving glacier and the thunderous roar of ice crashing into the water below are sights and sounds that you'll remember for the rest of your life.
    With such a diverse landscape, the park provides a variety of habitats for animals, big and small. Large colonies of seabirds, migrating ducks and geese, black bears, seals, sea lions, porpoises and whales are all common here. Witness it all for yourself onboard Princess Cruises to Alaska.

Denali National Park

    From the moment you step off the Alaska Railroad at the entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve, you'll feel as if you've been transported back in time, where skyscrapers and traffic jams have been replaced by snowcapped mountain peaks and flocks of native birds. This park defines the Alaskan Experience so Princess Cruises includes it on every Alaska Cruisetour (combined cruise-and-land tour).
    Towering above it all is the venerable Mt. McKinley, the highest point in all of North America. At 20,320 feet, its summit beckons more than 1,000 climbers each year who brave the elements for the chance to scale its majestic face. Fortunately, the climate isn't a factor for guests of Princess, who can relax at one of our two exclusive, custom-built lodges - the Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge and the Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge.
  • Denali Untouched
    Located 240 miles north of Anchorage, Denali encompasses six million acres of forests, tundra, glaciers and mountains - that's larger than the entire state of Massachusetts. Yet only 90 miles of main road traverses the park, leaving the moose, caribou, sheep and bears free to roam a wide area of land untouched by man.
  • Wildlife Sightings
    A good pair of binoculars helps with ample opportunities for animal sightings, whether it’s a Grizzly foraging for berries beyond or a Golden Eagle soaring above. In autumn, a ready supply of blueberries, cranberries and crowberries keeps the wildlife active; much like the blooming wildflowers during the summer attracts shutterbugs in search of that perfect shot.
  • Muldrow Glacier Tundra
    Denali is one of the few places where visitors can come in contact with the Alaskan tundra. Meaning a "vast, rolling, treeless plain," the tundra starts at 2,500 feet and extends up and along the massive Alaska Range. Crossing a portion of the tundra is the Muldrow Glacier, which descends 16,000 feet from the upper slopes of Mt

Kenai Fjords National Park

    Filled with rugged capes, sea arches and ice caves, magnificent Kenai Fjords is the kind of place that stirs the souls of artists, including some filmmakers, whose otherworldly sets are no doubt inspired by locations like this. Indeed, if you were in search of Superman's Fortress of Solitude, this would be a good place to start.
    Set on the jagged southern end of the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage, the ice-sculpted land known as "Alaska's playground" just begs to be explored—and Princess Cruises provides a variety of ways to do it.
  • Harding Icefield
    A network of long and intricate trails affords some of the best views in the park, including an up-close encounter with scenic Exit Glacier, the most famous of the more than 30 glaciers that surround the spectacular Harding Icefield, the crown jewel of Kenai Fjords. Covering 700 square miles, this massive expanse of ice is as much as one mile thick at points, and receives an average annual snowfall of 30 feet. This unrelenting blanket of white is punctured only by the peaks of high, rocky mountains, known as "nunataks," which are best viewed at the crest of the steep, 4.5 mile-long Harding Icefield Trail.
  • Aialik Bay
    In addition to hiking, nearly every other type of outdoor activity that Alaska has to offer can be found here, including kayaking, river rafting, mountain climbing, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, tours by land, air and sea - even dogsledding. Glacier viewing is popular in the most impressive of the park's seven long fjords - Aialik Bay, where the Holgate, Pederson and Aialik tidewater glaciers converge to launch icebergs into the sea.
  • Land and Sea Tours
    If marine life is your passion, our Resurrection Bay Wildlife Cruise is the perfect opportunity to see humpback whales, orcas, seals, sea lions, otters, porpoises and puffins. It's one of several family-friendly excursions that can be arranged during your stay at our exclusive Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge, located on the northern edge of the park in the Chugach National Forest near the Kenai Wildlife Refuge. The only Cruisetour lodge in the area is just steps away from the glacial blue-green Kenai River, the perfect place for trophy-size fishing.


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