Destinations

Bargain of the Millennium | John Warburton-Lee | United States, Alaska, Anchorage

There are few more rewarding experiences than driving a team of huskies through this vast land of mountains, spruce forests and endless silence

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Old Believers in Alaska | Vitali Vitaliev | United States, Alaska, Anchorage

Had Alaska stayed Russian and then Soviet, paradoxically, it would never have become home to the world's most obscure community of Russian outcasts

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Alaska: Los Anchorage | Richard Newton | United States, Alaska, Anchorage

Two of the remotest of the Aleutians – Attu and Kiska – were captured by the invaders and became the site of the only World War II battle fought on American soil.

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Alaska | Barbara Erasmus | United States, Alaska, Anchorage

Brochures describe it as the hanging basket capital of the world – over 9,000 plants are suspended in a blaze of colour along every street and window box

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Catch and Cook at Glacier Bay’s Bear Track Inn | Martin Li | United States, Alaska, Glacier Bay

Being eaten by a bear wasn’t in the script. I was supposed to be the hunter gatherer on this trip!

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Exploring Glacier Bay | Linda Ballou | United States, Alaska, Glacier Bay

The spirits of the ancient Tlingits, who lived here 10,000 years ago, are released from their frozen tombs with an unearthly howl and claps of thunder when enormous chunks of ice calve from the glacier

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Meet the Bears | Vitali Vitaliev | United States, Alaska, Fraser Lake

In quantity and variety of natural wonders, Alaska resembles a huge shopping mall of beauty.

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Yukon and Alaska: Winter Wonderland | Richard Newton | United States, Alaska, Yukon River

We stand together on the thick, featureless snow that blankets the ice covering the water. Below us, unseen, fish swim; life goes on. Here on the surface, the firm grip of winter holds everything in frigid suspension.

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Alaska: Close Encounter with Bald Eagles | Benjamin Ergas | United States, Alaska, Chilkat Valley

The Chilkat Valley is the setting of an annual frenzy when up to 3,000 bald eagles pour in to feed on spawned-out salmon

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Raven Brings the Sun | Linda Ballou | United States, Alaska, Tatshenshini River

The headwaters of this river in the Yukon Territory of Canada flow free for 140 un-interrupted miles through a 24-million-acre roadless wilderness that encompasses the largest non-polar ice field on earth

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