Alaska Circle (8 Days) July 10-17, 2016 Includes: 7 Breakfasts, 3 Lunches & 2 Dinners Day 1 Anchorage, AK Day 4 Fairbanks, AK Known to Gold Seekers in 1898
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TRIP INSURANCE INCLUDED IF YOU SIGN UP BY 5/11/16 10201 Wayzata Blvd | Suite 335 | Minnetonka, MN 55305 952-541-1019 Ext. 319 Alaska Circle (8 Days) July 10-17, 2016 Includes: 7 Breakfasts, 3 Lunches & 2 Dinners Day 1 Anchorage, AK Day 4 Fairbanks, AK known to gold seekers in 1898. Enjoy if you plan to go outside of the boat. We Day 8 Home Our journey to the great state of Alaska Our Alaskan adventure continues this magnificent views of the Chugach will arrive back at the Valdez Harbor Today we say goodbye to our new friends begins with our flight to Anchorage. morning! After a short tour of Mountains and Alaska Range. Our first and the rest of the evening is on your and to this spectacular place. We will never Upon arrival, a Riley motor coach will Fairbanks, we’ll stop at the stop is in North Pole, Alaska. Here own. Today you will have the option forget the time we enjoyed in “the last Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. It was built Santa Claus House, frontier.” be awaiting our arrival. we’ll stop at the to spend the day fishing instead if you as a means of transporting crude oil home of the Original Letter from Santa. would like. Please call our office for from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay on Mail your cards and letters here for an more information. (B, L) Day 2 Denali National Park, AK Alaska’s North Slope to Valdez. Then authentic North Pole postmark. Browse We head north on the Parks Highway we will head out to Gold Dredge #8 and the gift shop and visit with Santa and Day 7 Anchorage, AK to the historic village of Talkeetna, strike it rich! Ride a replica of the his reindeer. A stop will be made at the This morning we travel on the nestled at the base of North America’s narrow-gauge Tanana Valley Railroad Delta Junction Visitor Center, where Richardson Highway again. We’ll tallest peak Denali. Then we will while the conductor tell tales of you may have your picture taken with make stops at Horse Tail Falls in the board the Denali Star and travel the prospectors who arrived by the the monument in front that marks the Keystone Canyon and Worthington Alaska Railroad from Talkeetna to thousands during the gold rush. We will Alaska Highway or another favorite, Glacier on our way back through Denali National Park. We’ll follow the see first-hand how the dredge worked the giant mosquito sculptures. We will Thompson Pass. Along the way, we banks of the Susitna River, hoping to the gold fields, then receive a brief but continue our travels south through see beautiful mountains, lakes and get a view the famous mountain, informative course on gold panning Thompson Pass with its narrow chasms rivers. Our stop for lunch (on your Denali across the river (weather before panning for ourselves. This and jagged slopes. The highway winds own) includes a view of Sheep permitting). Next, we’ll travel the afternoon we will have an included through the Keystone Canyon passing Mountain, at an elevation of 6,300 feet. Indian River Canyon. The track climbs lunch before we board the Riverboat Bridal Veil Falls as it plummets to the Sheep are often seen high up on these toward tree line, first crossing Discovery to cruise along the Chena and roadside. We will make stops along the slopes. We’ll get a view of the Hurricane Gulch, the longest bridge on Tanana Rivers. We’ll experience a real way for photos. Upon arrival into Matanuska Glacier, the largest glacier the railroad just over 914 feet and 296 Alaskan Bush Pilot in action as he takes Valdez, we will check into our hotel accessible by a personal vehicle. This feet above Hurricane Creek. The train off from the river; see the home and located right on the harbor. (B) Glacier once reached all the way to will move into Broad Pass, at 2,363 kennels of Iditarod Champion, the late Palmer, where we will make a stop at feet, the highest point on the railroad. Susan Butcher and see her champion the visitor center and see the Lunch is included on the train. Upon Day 6 Valdez, AK sled dogs in action; learn about the Matanuska Valley Agricultural arrival to Denali National Park, our This morning we board a boat for a area’s Native cultures and lifestyles and Showcase Garden. This is our chance motor coach will be waiting to bring us cruise of Prince William Sound passing experience frontier living first hand with to view the giant cabbage Alaska is to our hotel for the evening. (B, L) Bligh Reef, where the Exxon Valdez a tour of an Athabascan Indian Village. spilled. We will cruise the majestic famous for! Next, we go to a Musk Ox Tonight, dinner is included at the waters of Prince William Sound from Farm, known to Alaskan Natives as Day 3 Fairbanks, AK All-you-can-eat Alaska Salmon Bake. Valdez to Meares Glacier. Our captain Oomingmak, which means “the Today will be spent aboard a special bus Your salmon is fire cooked on an open will travel the shoreline of the Valdez bearded one,” this once-endangered for the Tundra Wildlife Tour of Denali wood grill while the Prime Rib is slow arm looking for the critters that call the animal produces an annual harvest of National Park. We will travel 53 miles roasted, and the Bering Sea Cod direct Sound home. Watch for harbor seals, quviut, the finest wool in the world. into the park to the Toklat River rest from icy Alaskan waters and beer sea otters, sea lions, whales, porpoise, We will continue to Anchorage. Upon area and see incredible scenery, learn battered to perfection. Dinner includes a eagles, puffins and other wildlife. On arrival, we’ll see the down town area, history of the park road and have some salad bar, soft drink and dessert! board our captain will share with you where there will be free time shop and of the best opportunities to view the Afterwards, we’ll walk over to Pioneer stories about the history of the Sound explore (B) park’s wildlife inhabitants on this 6-8 Park and see the “Golden Heart Revue” from early explorers, gold and copper hour tour. Keep an eye out for Dall a lighthearted, comic look at the colorful mining, oil shipping, commercial fishing sheep, moose, caribou, wolves and characters from early and present day and the 1964 Earthquake. We’ll see and grizzly bears. After the tour, we will Fairbanks. (B, L, D) float within thousands of icebergs, continue our trek north to Fairbanks on many larger than the boat we are in. An the Parks Highway, where we will Day 5 Valdez, AK included lunch is served on the boat, spend the next two nights. Tonight, Departing Fairbanks along the along with an afternoon snack. It is we’ll enjoy a pizza party! (B, D) Richardson Highway, the first road recommended to bring a coat, gloves and hat SCS | 10201 Wayzata Blvd. | Suite 335 | Minnetonka, MN | 55305 | 952-541-1019 Ext. 319 Day 1 Anchorage, AK Day 4 Fairbanks, AK known to gold seekers in 1898. Enjoy if you plan to go outside of the boat. We Day 8 Home Our journey to the great state of Alaska Our Alaskan adventure continues this magnificent views of the Chugach will arrive back at the Valdez Harbor Today we say goodbye to our new friends begins with our flight to Anchorage. morning! After a short tour of Mountains and Alaska Range. Our first and the rest of the evening is on your and to this spectacular place. We will never Upon arrival, a Riley motor coach will Fairbanks, we’ll stop at the stop is in North Pole, Alaska. Here own. Today you will have the option forget the time we enjoyed in “the last Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. It was built Santa Claus House, frontier.” be awaiting our arrival. we’ll stop at the to spend the day fishing instead if you as a means of transporting crude oil home of the Original Letter from Santa. would like. Please call our office for from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay on Mail your cards and letters here for an more information. (B, L) Day 2 Denali National Park, AK Alaska’s North Slope to Valdez. Then authentic North Pole postmark. Browse We head north on the Parks Highway we will head out to Gold Dredge #8 and the gift shop and visit with Santa and Day 7 Anchorage, AK to the historic village of Talkeetna, strike it rich! Ride a replica of the his reindeer. A stop will be made at the This morning we travel on the nestled at the base of North America’s narrow-gauge Tanana Valley Railroad Delta Junction Visitor Center, where Richardson Highway again. We’ll tallest peak Denali. Then we will while the conductor tell tales of you may have your picture taken with make stops at Horse Tail Falls in the board the Denali Star and travel the prospectors who arrived by the the monument in front that marks the Keystone Canyon and Worthington Alaska Railroad from Talkeetna to thousands during the gold rush. We will Alaska Highway or another favorite, Glacier on our way back through Denali National Park. We’ll follow the see first-hand how the dredge worked the giant mosquito sculptures. We will Thompson Pass.