Alaska is really the last frontier. We love nature and wildlife and that’s you can find here. There are also mountains, glaciers and rivers but on a greater scale than we had seen before (there is one glacier larger than Switzerland!!!).
It’s such a large country that you can not see all of Alaska in a summer; therefore our trip is focused on Anchorage & around, Kenai Peninsula, Prince William Sound and Denali & Interior.
The weather is not as pleasant as in other trips and it changes drastically: it’s rainy, chilly and windy most of the time but when the sun brights the landscapes become stunning. There are still a lot of snow-capped mountains (apart from the glaciers) by the sea. We’ve been told that May and June are the best months to travel to Alaska; August is too rainy; perhaps this is the reason why we haven’t seen as much wildlife as we expected to see. There are not many tourists and most of them are americans from all the other states (Iowa, Wisconsin, Iowa, Carolina, Colorado….)
Attractions are very expensive and there are not family deals. It’s difficult to travel by yourself to certain places and you have to take package tours, charter boats…. which cost a lot ( there are no roads to some of the best spots or the roads are in bad condition).
We’ve been to some of the top wildlife viewing spots in the state: Katmai National Park ( the children went to see brown bears there), Kenai Fjords National Park, Homer … and this midday we loaded our RV on the ferry in Whittier and we are now sailing across Prince William Sound to Valdez. It’s gorgeous!!! The sea is calm, the scenery amazing; we’ve seen sea otters, sea lions – we’ve just passed through a huge colony of them, whales and dolphins, It’s a 6-hour trip but it’s worth it!!! The captain is telling us now that a mile ahead there are icebergs.
Our Top Picks ( by now):
- The beauty of Homer
- Sunset at Anchor Point
- Bears at Hallo Bay
- Portage Glacier and glaciers around Whittier
- Crazy crowds fishing salmon and halibut
- Prince William Sound
Astonishing things:
- Alaskan rubber boots (called southeat sneakers, everybody wears them)
- Alaska is just 50 years oldThe area we travel is the homeland of 5 native people: the Inupiat, Aulets,Alutiiqs, Athabascan and Yupik
- Everybody goes fishing
- Lots of soapstone figures to buy, wood carvings, jewellery made of walrus tusks, salmon leather wallets
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