Juneau
Travel Blogs from Juneau, United States
Boat, sweet Boat
... divorced, away. Some of her answers amaze me, others just seem funny. And, as always when coming back to the United States from abroad, there's that funny reverse culture shock: Souvenir shopping for Alaskan prices on Chinese salaries was a bit ...
Walk on ice cubes..
... than he would normally do. The helicopter elevated to almost 10,000 foot from where we had an awesome view of the Juneau ice fields and surrounding mountain ranges. The glacier was beautiful and had unexpected complexity to it. Our hiking guide explained ...
July 4th juneau alaska disaster and swift ...
... who had had the same fate befall his bags, though I don't know what the reason was since he was originating in the States. Apparently it's very common for luggage to be delayed into Juneau. Juneau's population is bigger than I thought based on its ...
NOT Seeing College Fjord.
... finally on Thursday after being on the boat for 4 nights and 3 days we headed down the gang plank onto terra firma and discovered Juneau. Whilst Anchorage is a bigger city, Juneau (only 30,000 people) is the capital of the state of Alaska. It has a bit ...
Alaskan Sojourn - The Inside Passage
There is something romantic about going to Alaska, and it has nothing to do with a cruise (which I did not take anyway). Be it gold and riches in the past, or the grandeur and power of nature and wildlife today, the lure of the Final Frontier remains ...
Juneau
Do you know Juneau?
... during the winter, and a bustling surge of tourists during the summer. There were four ships anchored in the channel near Juneau today where they deposited countless thousands of camera-toting tourists in full-bore spending mode. It felt like we were ...
Juneau and the Whales
... dropped by drunken prospectors) or so we were told. As we travelled on to the harbour we were told other interesting facts about Juneau, on arrival we walked down a gangway onto our double deck boat the lower deck inside with an open top deck, the boat ...
Ships ahoy - MS Ryndam
This morning we headed back to Vancouver where we dropped people at the Airport and at the Hotel we started from, there was about 34 of us who were doing the Inside Passage Cruise of Alaska. We were dropped at the ship terminal at about 3pm and ...
Wonderful Alaska
... inaccessible to the big cruise ships and we did a walking tour of the town and visited the hammer museum. Thursday - we arrived in Juneau where we disembarked from the boat. This was very sad as we had really enjoyed the boat and also made ...
Day 4 Juneau
... out that it is like soda stream and is made from coffee concentrate (WTF!!! No more coffee for me) Back to a regular update Juneau is an interesting town,. It is only accessible by boat or plane with no roads into town as it boarders a large icefield, ...
Scenic cruising to Juneau
Ships log;- 3.00am Transiting Seymour Narrows 12.00nn Cloudy, gentle breeze: 12 degrees C 3.30pm Transiting Granville channel 8.30pm Dropped off our pilots at Triple Island A relaxing day cruising and exploring the ship, duty free shops wow and ...
Juneau
... ; 7.45am Picked up our first Alaskan pilot 12.00nn Partly cloudy skies, light breeze; 10 degrees C 1.45pm Safely docked in Juneau 10.05pm Unmoored 10.35pm Commenced voyage to Skagway Berthed at Juneau, the capital of Alaska, at 1.45pm and we ...
Juneau
... Judy and Gene on this tour of a Gold smelting plant in Lead, South Dakota. It was fascinating. When this tour in Juneau offered a tour down into a Gold mine, despite my dislike of being in caves, but never being in an actual mine of any sort, ...
Arriving in Juneau with the Ferry
... 's bustling capital and gateway to Glacier Bay, nestles between towering mountains and the Gastineau Channel. Although a modern city, Juneau wears its romantic Gold Rush past proudly. Exhibits, museums, and enchanting performances are waiting to entertain ...
Cruising to Juneau Capital of Alaska
Day 14 22/6/09 Juneau Alaska Please click Titles below photo's for the story ...
The Medenhall glacier et al
... , there's been talk even while we were here about a 90 mile section of road being completed between here and Skagway. There by connecting Juneau to the outside world by something other that sea and sky. Along the road to the "end of the road" we passed ...
The Morning After...
... prospect of not hiking in the rain we decided to venture to Costa's Dinner which we have subsequently decided is the highlight of Juneau. Costa's is a tiny little "junkshop" dinner run by a big boned lady (referred to as Ma). The interior looks like ...
Mad-Alaska
... Pearl' and absolutely stunning and huge! Our first day of sailing was perfect where we made our way up to Juneau. A gorgeous town with a population of 30,000 (double the size of Llantwit!!). It is very quaint with stunning ...
Cap'n Larry and the Awesome Orca
Day 6 Thursday 23/09 Juneau Another very rough night. Woke to ship docked and pouring rain outside. Up for brekkie then out onto dock into rain. Booked a bus tour with very funny (as in haha) lady and about to start investigating whale watching when we ...
A Day in Juneau
... even steeper hill to St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church. This is the oldest Russian Orthodox church in continuous use in the United States. Unfortunately, we are now zero for two on Russian churches. This church was closed just like the one ...
First day in Juneau-hostels,cruises and alcohol!
Poppy: The ferry from Sitka to Juneau was slightly more civilised than the one to Sitka and we arrived in town at 6pm on Saturday and got a taxi to the one youth hostel in town. Very nice but the no alcohol rule, midnight curfew and plastic coated ...
Big seas, no vomit!
... to get the train to Seward - I went for the day. I had no real choice as there is only one ferry from Whittier to Juneau a month and I wanted to be on it. Anyway, the train to Seward goes through some beautiful scenery. We passed a lot of dead trees, ...
Juneau
... pub from the days of the gold rush. This bar is truly authentic, and one of the oldest standing establishments in Juneau, complete with a sawdust floor and honkey-tonk piano player. Above the bar are two of Wyatt Earp's pistols that were lost ...
Mendenhall Glacier
Debs: Ok, so...........apparently you just can't visit Juneau without checking out Mendenhall Glacier, so we did! We also later renamed it Tim the Glacier, not only because it's easier to say, but also because we're sure we were the first to discover ...
Juneau
... seemed to be only minutes, both because there was so much to see and because the naturalist made it all so interesting. Back in Juneau, a walk around showed that the city had little to offer in terms of coffee shops or restaurants, at least ones that were ...
Juneau, you know?
... , as we can't lock it if we want to from the inside. Whatever, all we know is that door wasn't opening for us. Juneau is a very small town, even though it is the capitol of Alaska. We walked off of the ship and walked the entire town in ...
Bears!! For real.
... down. Reaching the bottom, I put Keesha in the car and went to try and see some bears feeding on salmon in the stream. Juneau built raised platforms over the stream for people to hike on in this area. The paths beyond the platforms were closed due to ...
It was the best of days... It was the worst of day
... picked us up to transport us to the docks. She was a Tlingit Indian, named Kathleen who was also a headstart teacher in Juneau. She said Alaska was hurting for teachers and we both joked about moving up there. Well... Jan joked about ...


