| Day 1 | Calgary, AB |
| Your adventure begins as you arrive in Calgary - Alberta’s Cowboy City. Enjoy leisure time at your downtown hotel before starting your tour tomorrow morning. |
| Day 2 | Grande Prairie, AB |
| Meet fellow passengers and your guide this morning at a welcome breakfast. Travel and pass through Edmonton, a city that maintains it ties to the Klondike past and the Capital of the Province of Alberta. Watch the beauty unfold through Northern Alberta and see grandiose lakes, mighty rivers, abundant wildlife and untapped wilderness. (B) |
| Day 3 | Fort Nelson, BC |
| Travel through the great northern prairie region of Alberta en route to Dawson Creek and stop at Mile “0” of the Alaska Highway. Continue into British Columbia’s picturesque Peace Country with its abundance of natural history and agriculture land. (B) |
| Day 4 | Watson Lake, BC |
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Journey through peaceful valleys and alpine meadows and arrive for a brief stop at Liard Hot Pools; Canada’s most spectacular natural hot springs. Be sure to dip your toes into this natural hot pool. Next see the world famous “Sign Post Forest” that gives you a down to earth view of global navigation. This evening tour the Northern Lights Centre and experience the folklore and the science of the Northern Lights. (B) |
| Day 5 | Whitehorse, YK |
| The Nisutlin Bay Bridge will enable your crossing into Teslin, Yukon. This is the longest bridge on the Alaska Highway. Enjoy the reflections of the glorious mountain ranges in the crystal clear lakes that dot the area en route to Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon. See all that Whitehorse has to offer on a city tour including Miles Canyon, the Fish Ladder and the SS Klondike National Historic Site. Tonight whoop it up at the famous Whitehorse Frantic Follies. (B) |
| Day 6 | Dawson City, YK |
| Travel north on the Klondike Highway past Lake Laberge, made famous by Robert Service’s poem, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”. Stop to view the Carmacks Interpretive River Front Boardwalk and the beautiful Five Finger Rapids. Arrive in Dawson City the heart of the world-famous Klondike Gold Rush. Tonight visit Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall, Canada’s oldest and most unique casino featuring live can can girls led by Diamond Tooth Gertie herself. (B) |
| Day 7 | Dawson City, YK |
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This morning visit an actual Gold Mining Dredge, one of the largest wood hulled, bucket line dredges in North America and pan for your own fortune. This afternoon relax and enjoy a leisurely afternoon as you relive gold rush crazed Dawson City and explore the boardwalk shops of this town from the past. (B) |
| Day 8 | Tok, AK |
| North to Alaska! Today you travel over the “Top of the World Highway” and stop at the unique town of “Chicken” named after the state bird – the Ptarmigan that resembles a chicken. Then it’s on to the Village of Tok, where the Eagle Trail crosses the Tanana River and sternwheelers once plied the river. (B) |
| Day 9 | Fairbanks, AK |
| Mail your postcards this morning at North Pole, Alaska as you stop by Santa Claus House. Continue on to Fairbanks, the hub of Alaska’s heartland. This afternoon enjoy a cruise of the Chena and Tanana Rivers aboard a sternwheeler known as Discovery. You will see a bush plane taking off from a "bush" style runway, witness the "wedding of the rivers," and gain insight into the ancient Athabascan Indian culture on a personalized tour of the Chena Indian Village. Tonight step back in time and visit Alaskaland for a delicious baked salmon dinner, followed by a musical review at the Palace Theatre and Saloon.(D) |
| Day 10 | Denali National Park |
| Incredible vistas provide a feast for the eyes today on your journey through the town of Nenana to Denali National Park and Preserve. Visiting the park area is a once in a lifetime experience with the chance of seeing many wild animals in their natural habitat. The panoramic views of the famed Alaska Range continue to take your breath away as you see Mt McKinley – North America’s highest peak. Arrive at your overnight destination, the small Alaskan town of Wasilla, a year-round recreation paradise and the home of the annual world renowned Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. |
| Day 11 | Anchorage, AK |
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Get away from the crowds and enjoy some fantastic photo opportunities as we get an intimate and personal visit at an Alaskan Husky dog kennel. View the Iditarod video, take a kennel tour and go on a nature puppy walk with ten to twenty pups playing and running on the wilderness trail. Continue to Anchorage for lunch served inside a Goldmine at the Sourdough Mining Company with storyteller Dusty Sourdough! Then explore the past at the Alaska Native Heritage Centre and experience the people at Anchorage’s premier cultural attraction. Hear the songs and stories and see the dancers. (B, L) |
| Day 12 | Prince William Sound Cruise |
| Imagine cruising the calm and protected waters of Prince William Sound accompanied by a National Forest Interpreter. The vessel hugs the coastline and icebergs glide silently by. Pulling into a bay the vessel floats right up to a 1700-foot high active tidewater glacier! See otters, eagles, puffins, sea lions, whales and glacier-wildlife. This is wild and dramatic Alaska up close. (L) |
| Day 13 | Transfer to Pier |
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Depart 8:00pm
This morning transfer to the Pier and board either the Holland America Zaandam or Voldendam for your cruise through the Inside Passage. |
| Day 14 | Cruise Day 1 |
| Arrive 6:00am Depart 9:00pm
College Fjord Cruising |
| Day 15 | Cruise Day 2 |
| Arrive 10:00am Depart 7:00pm
Glacier Fjord Cruising |
| Day 16 | Cruise Day 3 |
| Arrive 7:00am Depart 9:00pm
Haines, Alaska |
| Day 17 | Cruise Day 4 |
| Arrive 8:00am Depart 6:00pm
Juneau |
| Day 18 | Cruise Day 5 |
| Arrive 2:00pm Depart 8:00pm
Ketchikan |
| Day 19 | Cruise Day 6 |
| At Sea |
| Day 20 | Cruise Day 7 |
| Arrive 7:00am
Arrive Vancouver (Canada Place)
Please note that transfers in Vancouver are NOT included in the package price. |
