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10-Day Glacier Bay Sojourn

 
 
10-Day Glacier Bay Sojourn
Starting from $6,299*

Vancouver, B.C., CA to Seward (Anchorage), Alaska, US


Ship: Seabourn Sojourn


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Optional tours are available from most ports for an additional charge.

 

Itinerary

 
Day Vancouver, B.C., CA / Transit the Seymour Narrows
Departs 05:00 PM / Cruising
Vancouver's location at the mouth of the Fraser River and on the waterways of the Strait of Georgia, Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet and all their tributaries makes this busy seaport an easy place for meeting. It is one of Canada's most populated, most ethnically diverse cities that is a popular filming location. Visit the interesting neighborhoods of Gastown, Granville Island and Chinatown. Walk across the Capilano Suspension Bridge and stroll through Stanley Park. See the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Museum of Anthropology. There is an amazing variety of things to see and do here.

Transit the Seymour Narrows
Vancouver, B.C., CA / Transit the Seymour Narrows
 
 
Day Cruising the Queen Charlotte Sound
Cruising Only
Cruising the Queen Charlotte Sound
 
 
Day Rudyerd Bay (Misty Fjords), Alaska, United States / Scenic cruising Misty Fjords / Cruising Behm Narrows
Arrives 08:00 AM Departs 06:00 PM / Cruising / Cruising
Misty Fjords, with its gorgeous views of natural formations is a national monument and wilderness area with steep valleys formed by glaciers and lava flows. It is part of the Tongass National Forest and is about 40 miles east of Ketchikan along the Inside Passage. With its icy blue lakes, waterfalls, snowcapped peaks and glacial valleys literally everywhere you point your camera you will get a postcard picture, depending on the weather of course.

Scenic cruising Misty Fjords

Cruising Behm Narrows
Rudyerd Bay (Misty Fjords), Alaska, United States / Scenic cruising Misty Fjords / Cruising Behm Narrows
 
 
Day Wrangell, Alaska, US / Cruising Sumner Strait / Transit Decision Passage
Arrives 07:00 AM Departs 04:00 PM / Cruising / Cruising
One of the oldest towns in Alaska, Wrangell is located near the mouth of the Stikine River. Much of its history can be seen in the impressive collection of totems scattered throughout the town. Highlights here are the amazing Petroglyph Beach State Historic Park where you can find primitive rock carvings and just 30 miles away is the Anan Wildlife Observatory with the largest pink salmon runs in the Inside Passage, and a platform from which you can look for eagles, harbor seals and black bears.

Cruising Sumner Strait

Transit Decision Passage
Wrangell, Alaska, US / Cruising Sumner Strait / Transit Decision Passage
 
 
Day Juneau, Alaska
Arrives 10:00 AM Departs 11:00 PM
"Juneau, Alaska may well be the most remote, most beautiful and strangest state capital in the United States. Surrounded by water, forest and mountain sights, visitors seeking things to do in Juneau indoors and outdoors can hike a glacier, eat fresh-caught fish on a seaside patio and tour a grand capitol building all in one day. The city itself is pleasant, but the real highlight of a visit to Juneau is tracking down some wildlife. You can hike up Mount Roberts to chance upon wild deer and bald eagles. Most sightseeing and whale-watching tours head north to Auke Bay—bring a good pair of binoculars to get the best view of these majestic and surprisingly graceful creatures. If you prefer land mammals, catch a floatplane to a nearby wildlife reserve such as Chichagof or Admiralty Island to spy some bears lolling around. The sleepy, misty city of around 32,000—mostly fishermen and small-business owners—has a frontier town vibe, but welcomes more than a million visitors each summer to its natural attractions, cementing Juneau as Alaska's number-one tourist destination. "
Juneau, Alaska
 
 
Day Glacier Bay
Arrives 07:00 AM Departs 05:00 PM
Frosted crags descend into mossy forests and a 457-meter-deep (1,500-foot-deep) fjord at this World Heritage Site, which is also one of the planet's largest biosphere reserves. Stone, ice and water continue to collide, sculpting a dramatic landscape that is the crown jewel of southeastern Alaska's natural wonders.

The area's first European explorer missed it all—but with good reason. When Captain George Vancouver sailed here in 1794, a vast shield of ice, more than 1,200 meters (3,937 feet) thick, dominated the area. In one of the fastest retreats on record, the glaciers shrank back 105 kilometers (65 miles) by 1916. The formerly glacier-squashed land is rebounding now, rising 30 millimeters (1.18 inches) each year. Visitors can observe this rebirth: A spruce-hemlock rain forest has sprouted near the mouth of Glacier Bay. Farther north, the more recently exposed land shows sharper edges and thinner vegetation. Still, it's enough to encourage the return of wildlife, from bald eagles to bears, moose and humpback whales.
Glacier Bay
 
 
Day Haines, Alaska, US / Cruising Lynn Canal
Arrives 06:00 AM Departs 06:00 PM / Cruising
Tucked in along the shores of the longest fjord in North America and surrounded by breathtaking scenery, Haines is an authentic Alaskan experience. It is an eclectic community and a truly hidden gem. Its rich culture shines brightly during the annual state fair that draws people from all over Alaska. Haines is home to the largest concentration of bald eagles on earth, and grizzly bears gorge themselves on spawning salmon in its rivers. It was originally named Dteshuh, which means 'end of the trail' in the language of the Chilkat natives, who used to portage across the peninsula to Chilkat Inlet as a shortcut to their trade route to the interior.

Cruising Lynn Canal

Lynn Canal is a 90-mile long inlet into Alaska's coast running from the Chilkat River in the north to the Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage in the south. Because it connects the towns of Skagway and Haines to Juneau and the rest of the Inside Passage, it is an important shipping lane for ferries, cargo and cruise ships, and was a crucial passageway to the Klondike gold fields during the Gold Rush. It was discovered by Joseph Whidbey in 1794 and named by George Vancouver after his birthplace, King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. More than 2,000 feet in depth, it is one of the deepest and longest fjords in the world, and the deepest in North America outside Greenland.
Haines, Alaska, US / Cruising Lynn Canal
 
 
Day Inian Islands, Alaska, US / Icy Strait Point, Alaska, US
Arrives 04:30 AM Departs 10:30 AM / Arrives 02:00 PM Departs 08:00 PM
Managed by the Forest Service, these scenic Inian Islands are located in Icy Strait near the entrance to Glacier Bay. Several small pieces of land make up these islands, with dense tree growth that provides a restful home to deer. This has become a popular area for sea kayaking. Privately owned Icy Strait Point is a tourist destination and the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska. It is the property of 1,350 Alaskan natives with aboriginal ties to Hoonah and the Glacier Bay area. Visitors here enjoy an educational experience learning about Alaska's native cultures, and the natural history of the region. There is much to do here including a brown bear search, tram excursion, flightseeing over Glacier Bay and the biggest zipline in the United States.

Icy Strait Point, Alaska, US

Privately owned Icy Strait Point is a tourist destination and the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska. It is the property of 1,350 Alaskan natives with aboriginal ties to Hoonah and the Glacier Bay area. Visitors here enjoy an educational experience learning about Alaska's native cultures, and the natural history of the region. There is much to do here including a brown bear search, tram excursion, flightseeing over Glacier Bay and the biggest zipline in the United States.
Inian Islands, Alaska, US / Icy Strait Point, Alaska, US
 
 
Day At Sea

 
 
Day Scenic Cruising Harriman Fjord / Scenic cruising College Fjord
Arrives 07:00 AM Departs 12:00 PM / Cruising / Cruising
Deep within the northwest reaches of Prince William Sound are Harriman and College Fjords, with their numerous tidewater and valley glaciers. This is one of the most spectacularly glaciated areas of Alaska! The Harvard Glacier, with a length 24 miles (39 km) and a face of 1.5-miles (2.5 km), is the largest in the area.

Scenic cruising College Fjord
Scenic Cruising Harriman Fjord / Scenic cruising College Fjord
 
 
Day Seward (Anchorage), Alaska
Arrives 07:00 AM
One of Southcentral Alaska's oldest communities, Seward is ground zero for the Klondike Gold Rush's Iditarod National Historic Trail, a dogsled route that connected the Kenai Peninsula's ice-free port with Nome during frontier-era winters. Though the modern race makes a ceremonial start in Anchorage, it's inspired by the famous run of 1925, which dashed along parts of this older path. It allowed 20 mushers to carry urgently needed diphtheria vaccine more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) in just over 127 hours. Natives and explorers from Russia, Britain and the United States all frequented this area before Seward's official founding in 1903. The early settlement included a colorful neighborhood known as Homebrew Alley which was erased by a 9.2-magnitude megathrust earthquake—the second most powerful ever recorded—which dropped the shoreline nearly six feet in 1964. Today this mellow town welcomes visitors to Resurrection Bay and Kenai Fjords National Park, not to mention the 204-kilometer (127-mile) Seward Highway—honored as an All-American Road—stretching north to Anchorage. In town, favorite stops remain the Alaska SeaLife Center, a research aquarium open to the public, and the steep, stony 920-meter (3,018-foot) Mount Marathon, which hosts one of America's oldest footraces each Fourth of July.
Seward (Anchorage), Alaska