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We are delighted to offer you this magnificent opportunity FROM to sample the variety of natural splendours, wildlife and colourful heritage of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. You will experience the charm of Denali National Park, taking a Tundra Wilderness Tour, and cruise in the spectacular Kenai Fjords National Park, giving wonderful opportunities of viewing the abundance of wildlife that inhabits this sensational area. Stopping in the former gold rush centres of Dawson City and Fairbanks, you will experience a real sense of the gold fever that gripped the region in the 19th century. You will also ride on the McKinley Explorer train and take a cruise aboard an authentic sternwheeler riverboat, ensuring that you are left with many fond memories of this remarkable region.
14 DAYS
£3795
Denali National Park McKinley Explorer
Vancouver * Whitehorse * Dawson City * Fairbanks Denali National Park * Talkeetna * Seward * Anchorage
Day 1 London * Vancouver
We begin with Titan's VIP Home Departure Service" to London Heathrow Airport and our scheduled direct Air Canada flight to Vancouver. On arrival, our coach awaits to take us to our hotel, the Blue Horizon, excellently located in the heart of downtown Vancouver. This evening you are free to relax and perhaps take a stroll around this delightful city. of Bonanza Creek, Grand Forks and Eldorado, provides a real sense of gold fever and you will even have the opportunity to pan for your own gold. Your tour will visit the site of the original gold claim that sparked off the greatest stampede in history. Dawson City was the epicentre of the gold rush and in its heyday was the wildest of boom towns, where saloons and honky-tonk bars never closed. We return to our hotel and this afternoon you have the opportunity to further discover this historical town on your own. This evening we have included a visit to Diamond Tooth Gerties gambling casino. This is a re-creation of an 1898 saloon, complete with small-time gambling and a honky-tonk piano. As the evening draws to a close and we return to our hotel, you can take heart from the fact that the casino's profits are re-invested into the community for town restoration and the preservation of its heritage.
Day 2
Vancouver * Whitehorse
This morning our coach transfers us to Vancouver Airport to take the Air Canada scheduled flight direct from Vancouver to Whitehorse. Upon arrival, our coach will transfer us to our hotel for the next two nights, the Westmark Whitehorse. Whitehorse is located on the banks of the Yukon River and has a real frontier feel about it. It is by far the largest town in the Yukon Territory yet despite this, the town centre is quite small and very easy to explore on foot.
Day 6
Dawson City * Fairbanks
Day 3
Whitehorse
The city of Whitehorse was established as a transshipment point during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. It was originally given the name White Horse by the gold miners who thought that the rapids at Miles Canyon looked like the manes of charging white horses. Today is free for you to make your own explorations of the surrounds, or perhaps take an optional Yukon River cruise or floatplane flight through the historic Miles Canyon.
Day 4
Whitehorse * Dawson City
We depart our hotel this morning and visit a classic Yukon homestead complete with a full team of huskies, where you will have an introduction to the art of dog sledding and a briefing on just what it takes to run a team for 1,000 miles in the Yukon Quest International dog sled race. We then travel along the Klondike Highway to Dawson City. This road parallels the Yukon River in places and you will pass through several small communities along the route. The Yukon region covers an area of approximately half a million square kilometres and yet has a population of only 30,000 people. We arrive at Dawson City at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers where our hotel is the Westmark Dawson Inn. The rest of the evening is free.
We depart the hotel this morning to travel northwest along two of the famous highways of the north the Top of the World Highway / Taylor Highway and the Alaska Highway. Today's journey will offer some exhilarating, panoramic views of the vast Alaskan wilderness, and on a good day, the atmospheric clarity of the sub-artic region can allow visibility of up to 180 miles. Known as the Gateway to the Arctic , Fairbanks is located in the heart of Alaska's Interior and serves as a transportation hub for the north slope oil fields and Arctic villages or the Rivers Edge Resort. Our accommodation is at the Westmark Fairbanks. The remainder of the evening is free for you to perhaps take a stroll in the midnight sun'. At latitude 64, days in mid-summer can have a remarkable 21 hours of daylight.
Mt. McKinley
Day 7
Fairbanks
Day 5
Dawson City
Dawson City was declared a National Historic Site in the early 1960s by Parks Canada. Once known as the Paris of the North , this area was once at the very heart of the gold rush. This morning's included guided tour of Dawson City and the outlying gold-mining sites
Fairbanks is another city that sprung up with the discovery of gold. It has a colourful history dating back to the 1880s and this morning you will have the opportunity to explore some of this heritage on an included sightseeing tour, followed by a cruise along the Chena and Tanana Rivers aboard an authentic sternwheeler riverboat. This 20-mile journey will include a stop at a recreated native Athabascan village, complete with bark houses, a well stocked smoke house and an authentic fur trapper's cache. This is a great opportunity to see many of the traditional skills and lifestyles of the native people, such as salmon fishing and curing, woodcarving, dog handling and working with leather and skins. We return to our hotel in the afternoon, where the rest of the day is free.
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