Showing Results 1-2 of 2 |  Sort by:     
Page 1 of 1  |  Go to page   
WTF-DVD-AK - ALASKA  Filmed and produced by Fran & Brooke Reidelberger  Scripted and narrated by Fran Reidelberger  In southeast Alaska, the towns and places visited include: Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, Chilkat RIver Eagle Preserve, Misty Fjords National Monument and a fly-in fishing camp.Features include:-- Scenes of Ketchikan, the Gateway City, with its "red light" district, plus totem carving and historic Totem Bight - --  a fly-in to a luxury fishing camp where record breaking Silver Salmon abound and brown bears are seen on nature walks - "Big Blue Canoes", the state-run ferry system that is the real highway for most people who live in the southeast Alaska - --  The Norwegian heritage of Petersburg and its commerical shrimp fishing industry - --  Sitka, rich in Russian history, religion and dancing, along with the annual Luumberjack Contest and lumbering in the Tongass National Forest - --  the state capital of Jueau, with its gold mining history, cruise ships and salmon bakes, modern merchants and torist momentos, plus Mendenhall Glacier - --  a flight over the Juneau Ice Field and glacier calvig at Glacier Bay National Park - --  Chikat Indian dancers in Haines, historical Ft. Seward and thousands of eagles along the Chilkat river - --  Skagway's modern "gold rush" of tourists who flock to the shops and to ride the spectacular White Pass and Yukon Railway - In Alaska's Interior, towns and places visited include:  Tok, Fairbanks, Prudhoe Bay, Valdez and Prince William Sound, Nome, Kotzebue, the Pribilof Islands, Seward, Homes, Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska Valley, and Denali National Park.Features include:--  Historical photos and information about the contruction of the Alcan (Alaska-Canada) Highway - --  Tok, the first Alaskan town reached on the Alcan - --  paddle wheel river boats and modern gold mining in Fairbanks - --  driving the "haul road" along the oil pipeline with stops at the mighty Yukon River and the Arctic Circle - --  oil story from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez and Prince William Sound - --  the Kenai Peninsula  -- a variety of wildlife and wildflowers, all within minutes of downtown Anchorage - --  4th of july in Seward, world-class halibut in Homer and giant vegetables in Palmer - --  huskies and dog sleds in Nome - --  Blanket tosses and Eskimo art in Kotzebue - --  rare birds and fur seals in the Pribilof Islands - --  a look ast modern Anchorage, Alaska's largest city and air crossroads of world travel - --  Denali National Park with incomparable Mt. McKinley, pluse moose, caribou, giant grizzly bears and tiny wildflowers.
Alaska
Categories: Holiday Location and Places 
Added: 160 days ago
By: travel-video
Runtime: 1m16s
Views: 14  | Comments: 0
Rating: Not yet rated
ITF-DVD-106 - Cruise North to Alaska Onboard the Island Princess.  Ketchikan - Juneau - Skagway - Glacier bay - College Fjord - Anchorage - Midnight Sun Express - Fairbanks - Prudhoe Bay - Denali National Park - Mt. McKinley - Columbia GlacierThe Great Land - Alaska!The name brings to mind a thousand images: majestic mountains, rivers of ice, endless tundra, vastness, spaciousness, freedom. All of these images are true. But for today's traveler it also means luxury. Amid some of the most rugged scenery of the world, luxurious cruise ships and elegant trains carry travelers north to the top of the world to view the extraordinary sights of the "Last Frontier."In THE GREAT ALASKA CRUISE, Doug Jones takes the viewer through the Inside Passage and across the Gulf of Alaska on the fabled Island Princess of Love Boat fame. Join 600 passengers fro a trip from Vancouver to Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway. Experience the thrill of a helicopter trip to the Juneau icefields, ride on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, see a salmon cannery in operation, sail through breathtaking Glacier Bay and College Fjord and experience all the magic that has beckoned travelers to Alaska for over a hundred years.Visit Anchorage, the Matanuska Valley, stop by the Alaska State Fair, take the Midnight Sun Express to Fairbanks, ride the "Discovery" sternwheeler paddleboat, pan for gold at the Little Eldorado Mine, and visit the Seismolgy lab of the University of Alaska.Then further north on the gravel Dalton Highway, past the pipeline, to Coldfoot, the northernmost truck stop in the world, flightseeing over the Brooks Range at midnight, then over the tundra to Prudhoe Bay, the oil fields and the Arctic Ocean.From the Arctic, travel to Denali where you'll discover the magic of Mt. McKinley from the air then travel back to Anchorage and reboard the ship for a final trip south through the breathtaking icefields of the Columbia Glacier.All this awaits onboard the Island Princess as Doug Jones takes you north to the top of the world in THE GREAT ALASKA CRUISE.
A Doug Jones Travelog THE...
Categories: Holiday Location and Places 
Added: 160 days ago
By: travel-video
Runtime: 1m43s
Views: 13  | Comments: 0
Rating: Not yet rated
Page 1 of 1  |  Go to page