Frommer's Alaska Cruises & Ports of Call 2006
Chapter One
The Best of Alaska Cruising
Alaska is one of the top cruise destinations in the world, and when you're sailing
through the calm waters of the Inside Passage or across the Gulf of Alaska,
it's easy to see why. The scenery is simply breathtaking.
Much of the coastline is wilderness, with snowcapped mountain peaks,
immense glaciers that create a thunderous noise as they calve into the sea, emerald
rainforests, fjords, icebergs, soaring eagles, lumbering bears, and majestic
whales all easily visible from the comfort of your ship.
Visit the towns and you'll find people who retain the spirit of frontier independence
that brought them here in the first place. Add Alaska's colorful history
and heritage, with its European influences, its spirit of discovery, and its rich Native
cultures, and you have a destination that is utterly and endlessly fascinating.
The fact that approximately 700,000 cruise passengers-give or take a few-arrive
annually in this last great frontier has had its impact, of course. In the
summer some towns turn into ... read full excerpt from Frommer's Alaska Cruises & Ports of Call 2006 ebook
