Traveling Well Includes… • Private Tauck Shore Excursions – $765 Value! • All gratuities to Tauck Director, ship staff, and local guides • 8-day cruise aboard Le Soléal with an exclusive Tauck onboard naturalist who shares insights • Cruising the Tracy Arm Fjord and a float trip through the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve
• Touring Gold Rush country from Skagway, Alaska to Fraser, British Columbia by train, coach, and vintage streetcar
• Access to an underwater camera for viewing undersea harbor life in Petersburg • Cultural performances and tours in Klukwan, Petersburg, and Saxman Native Village • 20 meals, airport transfers, service charges, porterage and most taxes
Be at one with nature as you travel the Inside Passage cradled by snow-crowned mountains, glacier-carved fjords, and lush green rainforests... feeling uplifted and humbled by larger-than-life wilderness as far as the eye can see and up-close encounters with rare wildlife – humpback whales, eagles, orcas, seals... Peer into undersea life with an underwater camera... cruise the Tracy Arm Fjord, strewn with glacier chunks in every shade of blue and white... explore a rainforest sanctuary... discover the Norwegian-influenced port of Petersburg, where eagles sit like seagulls on docks... get to know Gold Rush country on a vintage streetcar... and the Native American village of Klukwan. You’ll soon understand why Alaska’s state flower is the forget-me-not. Once experienced, this majestic state and its precious wildlife, history, and cultures are truly unforgettable.
of Butedale (weather permitting); and, if you’re lucky, whales, dolphins, and sea lions. Today is also the perfect opportunity to enjoy the many comforts and amenities aboard Le Soléal. Spa anyone? Cap off your first day at sea with the captain’s welcome dinner tonight. Meals BLD
1. ARRIVE VANCOUVER Tour begins: 3:00 PM, Vancouver. A transfer is included from Vancouver Int’l Airport to the Fairmont Pacific Rim before 2:30 PM. We’ve set up a Tauck hospitality room at the hotel. At 2:30 in the afternoon, guests will be transported from the Fairmont Pacific Rim to board Le Soléal. Enjoy dinner onboard. Meals D
2. CRUISING THE COAST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Spend a full day aboard your handsome yacht heading north in Canada’s Inside Passage. As you wend your way along the serpentine line of glacier-forged fjords at the foot of the mountains edging British Columbia, you’ll pass the Great Bear Rainforest; miles of untouched wilderness; the 1918 ghost town
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3. TOTEM POLES & RAINFOREST SANCTUARY Welcome to Ketchikan, Alaska, nestled on the bluffs of the southwestern coast of Revillagigedo Island. Founded as a salmon cannery site and once known as the “Salmon Capital of the World,” this lively port is home to historic Creek Street, lined with an engaging mix of galleries, restaurants, artisan shops, and bookstores. If you like, this morning join your Tauck Director on an introductory walk downtown. Then drive to Saxman Native Village, home of what may be the world’s largest collection of standing Native American totem poles – each a story unto itself. Get to know more about tribal traditions – and maybe learn a few dance steps – in the clan house. Afterward take a short drive up the coast to rustic Herring Cove for a tour by a local naturalist at the Alaska Rainforest Sanctuary. Walking the trails through this dense forest of hemlock, spruce, and Alaska cedar, with its mossy floor, berries, and wild flowers, gives you a chance to spot the local residents, including flocks of singing birds. Then it’s on to the historic Herring Bay Lumber Company sawmill to meet a master totem carver, followed by a look at a salmon hatchery. Meals BLD
4. “LITTLE NORWAY” PETERSBURG You might catch sight of a humpback whale in Frederick Sound on your way this morning to the port of Petersburg, nicknamed “Little Norway” because Petersburg’s first European settlers were Norwegian fishermen. Tender ashore to the small-ships-only harbor (an advantage of cruising on Le Soléal is its ability to anchor here, while bigger ships simply can’t). This picturesque community boasts a bustling waterfront lined with working fishing boats and faded boathouses. On a tour of
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