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Alaska
Cruise to Alaska to get up close to mammoth glaciers and discover all the other wonderful facets of North America's vast wilderness. Glide past calving glaciers as you head for ports of call that are home to diverse communities. You'll be greeted warmly and shown traditional, local culture, while you get a glimpse of modern life in this mythological land. Settlements cluster near ports of call, and as you go deeper inland you'll find vast stretches of wilderness, uninhabited and unspoiled. More than a half of all U.S. National Parks are found in Alaska, with Denali alone covering 6 million acres.
Particularly popular are Cruises to Alaska offering educational aspects, such as on-board scientist-guides who can tell you about Alaska's diverse geography and wildlife.
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Small Ship Luxury Cruises Around Alaska
There are 34,000 miles of coastline around Alaska, with endless fjords, glaciers, and inlets to explore. Taking your luxury cruise on a small ship allows you to get up close to calving glaciers, take small off-ship excursions onto actual glaciers, or explore less-traveled routes that bigger ships wouldn't dare take because of size restricttions. Even in a big ship, the scale of the waters and glaciers around Alaska is daunting. This part of the world comes in extra-large sizes only, and mere humans feel dwarfed by all that surrounds them on an Alaska luxury cruise. Cruising on a smaller ship just intensifies this feeling: you're down lower on the water, you see things in and on the water more at eye-level, and you're just generally closer to the things you came to see. Some favorite side trips taken by smaller luxury cruise ships are into Glacier Bay and Admiralty Island, but especially Tracy Arm, which is a fjord too narrow for the bigger ships. It's in southeastern Alaska and its steep walls provide many opportunities for ice to slide off, increasing the chances you'll see lots and lots of calving, which is the term used to describe when great sheets of ice fall from a glacier into the ocean. It's dramatic, to say the least!
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