Category: Tours & Excursions

For anyone with an interest in nature, Denali National Park deserves a few days of exploring. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have a few days so have to decide how to get the best experience in the shortest time. Although I can take different options because I’m there fairly...

It’s looking like it might be a very cool and wet summer this year, but there are soooo many things I want to do and see! We’re probably not going on any cruises this year, but there are lots of short trips on the list of options. I’ve been...

I spent Friday at a Natural History and Nature Interpretation workshop. Offered to Yukon guides by the Wilderness Tourism Association of the Yukon, its purpose was to increase the level of knowledge of people who already have a solid base and to help them interpret the Yukon’s wildlife and...

Ziplines, with or without associated features such as “canopy tours” or “adventure parks”, are one of the hot items in the quest for tourist dollars. This year we have 2 new ones within easy driving distance of Whitehorse, bringing the total number to 4. The 2 new ziplines are...

November 9: Today we visited Martinique, “the island of flowers”. This French colony gets few cruise ships, in my opinion because there are few English-language excursions available and Euros are used in trade. US dollars are only grudgingly accepted even in Fort-de-France, at poor exchange rates and with change...

November 8: Today’s port was Bridgetown, Barbados. Deciding what to do here was tough – as much as I wanted to explore some of the country’s history and architecture in particular, Cathy found a catamaran tour that including snorkeling with turtles. Snorkeling with turtles was on the Bucket List,...

Princess Cruises has just started a new blog called “50 Essential Experiences”, which over the next 50 weeks will describe what Princess’ destination experts feel are the things that you must experience during your life. This week’s Essential Experience story is about the helicopter dog sledding [archived by The...

Yesterday was our ship’s day in Sitka, our favourite port. It was unfortunately a very short visit, from 7:00 am until 2:00 pm – we’d love to spend 12 hours there (or a week!). I awoke to fog and a light rain, with the Zaandam off to starboard. This...

After a bit of rain and lot of cold wind at Skagway, the incredible weather is back with us. I’m still a day behind on the blog but hope to catch up tonight, as we’re now at sea en route to Sitka following a superb day at the Hubbard...

The Maher group was yet again blessed in Denali National Park yesterday – the variety of animals we saw was wonderful, and some were in unusual places compared to my last 25+ trips into the park. We left the McKinley Chalet hotel on the Tundra Wildernes Tour (TWT) bus...