Alaska is a U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area.
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* Accommodation
| Alaska offers visitors accommodations options throughout the state. You'll find everything from hotels to rustic cabin rentals, campgrounds, RV parks. In Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, there are over 6,000 hotel rooms available for you. |
* Transportation services:
TRAVEL WITHIN ALASKA: BY BOAT
Traveling Alaska by ferry is an excellent option for independent travelers and families, and allows you to bring your car, bicycle.
The Alaska Marine Highway is Alaska’s state-owned ferry system, offering scheduled service to the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak Island and the Aleutian Islands.
Ferries allow visitors to travel at their own pace and create their own itinerary. Cabins provide private accommodations, but you can also sleep in public areas on the ferries, including the outdoor solariums, in small tents or sleeping bags.
Food service, movies and other entertainment are available on the ferries. It’s important to book ferry travel in advance, especially during summer months or if traveling with a vehicle.
TRAVEL WITHIN ALASKA: BY PLANE
“Bush planes” are small airplanes serving of remote communities. These flights offer a truly authentic wilderness experience and give visitors a real life in rural Alaska. While multi-day visits are perfect in some locations, many others remote communities don’t have hotels or other tourism infrastructure and are best visited on a day trip. Several tour operations offer flightseeing with short stops in Alaska Native villages.
Flightseeing is one of the most popular day trips in Alaska, and can be done by small plane or helicopter statewide. Helicopter tours often have landings on mountains or glaciers.
* Activities:
Alaska's most popular and iconic winter expiriences include: dog mushing. snowboarding and skiing, snowmobiling, and sports and cultural events. Combine with the locally restaurants, museums and cultural centers, shopping and you will get a beautiful expirience.
* Culture:
Alaska doesn’t have just one native human group, actually, it have more than 6 indigenous biggroups, thee Aleutas are the most common and the ones that have bring more with their culture tothe recently Alaska manners.The dogsled is the official sport in Alaska, it is the hobby of most of the population of Alaska. Thereare a lot of competitions with this lovely sport. The aurora borealis is one of the most spectacular landscapes of all the Earth. You can watch itduring the nights between March and October. The aurora borealis paint the sky of plenty colors. 2. In Alaska you can find a lot of variety of products, most of them, exploded from the naturalresources like fish, the whales,flora and fauna.
* Costs
There is a lot of variety of places to stay in, for example, cabins, hotels and motels, and inns, you can choose something that accommodates to your necessities and expectative. The costs can change depends of the time you will stay, or the amount of people you are going to travel with. 1500 dollars would be the approximated cost for 4 people, with all included. The value of the tickets depends on the city you departure.
* Souvenir
In Alaska you can find a lot of variety of products, most of them, exploded from the natural resources like fish, the whales, flora and fauna.
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