Millions of travellers are flocking to this frozen frontier
“It’s not the worst place to return to.”And there’s the silver lining.Dawes Glacier is day four of our seven-day cruise. There are only 740,000 or so residents, making it the third least populated state in the US, behind Wyoming and Vermont.AdvertisementThis destination is a perfect storm of wildlife, majestic scenery, and larger-than-life characters in each port with big stories to tell. But no country or state has more individual glaciers than Alaska’s 100,000-plus, covering 3 to 5 per cent of the state.About half of all visitors to Alaska take a cruise, and cruising is the main growth driver for visitor numbers.
- ▪“It’s not the worst place to return to.”And there’s the silver lining.Dawes Glacier is day four of our seven-day cruise.
- ▪There are only 740,000 or so residents, making it the third least populated state in the US, behind Wyoming and Vermont.AdvertisementThis destination is a perfect storm of wildlife, majestic scenery, and larger-than-life characters in each
- ▪But no country or state has more individual glaciers than Alaska’s 100,000-plus, covering 3 to 5 per cent of the state.About half of all visitors to Alaska take a cruise, and cruising is the main growth driver for visitor numbers.
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