World Adventure Travel Vacations: Alaska Adventure Travel

Popular Active Travel Vacations as Yosemite, Alaska's Kenai Fjords, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Olympic National Park. For travelers looking to explore the national parks during winter, Backroads offers the Yellowstone Snow Adventure Tour “When you travel somewhere and realize you brought he said. Since 1967, Alaska’s motto “North to the future” has been promoting adventure, opportunity and promise in the Last Frontier. As it turns out, self-proclaimed transplants from the Nature-travel specialist Natural Habitat Adventures has announced an exclusively chartered Grizzly Ship for close encounters with the giant brown bears of Alaska. New this year for Variety Cruises is a 10-day Madagascar & Mozambique Channel itinerary Guess again. We sent contributor Lilit Marcus to Southeast Alaska to see if she can recreate the standard shore excursion with a series of day trips and small-ship adventures. The 49th state can be a difficult one to love. The climate is constantly (Photo: Natural Habitat Adventures) If your Alaska cruise isn't complete without a bear sighting, a new cruise for 2015 is custom-made for you. Natural Habitat Adventures, a nature travel company, has chartered a ship solely for bear watching along Alaska I recently took a trip with Gear Junkie contributor and fellow adventure buddy Erik Cooper where we camped out in the blazing hot Empty Quarter of the U.A.E. (See Cooper’s report, “‘Empty Quarter’ Camp-Out”.) Vast Alaska Within a week of .

I thought about how we usually travel in order to I've been hanging around in Alaska since my brother took a position as an ecologist at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2000. During the past decade of adventures, I've experienced a litany of In this second part of a 3-part series on the Kenai, you will Cross country in Alaska: A scenic wild road trip Cross country travel is fairly simple in Alaska. There just aren’t many roads and there is relatively little traffic on them. In fact there S.S. Legacy sailing weeklong Alaska’s Golden History adventures between Ketchikan and Juneau, Alaska (and reverse). History comes alive through presentations and skits on board and included tours to points of historical interest. Ports visited More than half of Alaska cruisers add land adventure tours to their itineraries. The water in the Nenana River was 35 degrees during the whitewater-rafting trip. You can pan for gold, but don't expect to get rich. .