www.ymtvacations.com – Call Your Man Tours at 1-800-922-9000 – Watch chunks of glaciers crash into the sea as you cruise Alaska’s spectacular Inside Passage. Be treated like royalty aboard a luxurious 5-Star Holland America cruise liner, catch your breath crossing the scenic Cascade Mountains, watch “Old Faithful” geyser soar to new heights in Yellowstone. Sound like a dream? Maybe, but it can be your reality on YMT Vacations’ Alaska Cruise and Tour of the Pacific Northwest, including Yellowstone and Teton National Parks. On the cruise, you’ll stop at Skagway, Ketchikan and sail amazing Glacier Bay. The tour also includes a motor coach trip to Penticton, BC, Spokane, the Grand Coulee Dam, Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Falls, Jackson Hole and a tour of Salt Lake City before returning home.
DestinationsInFlorida.com or call 877-918-8941 for help planning your Alaskan cruise. Our video of the Tracy Arm Fjord during our Alaskan cruise simply does not do justice to this amazingly beautiful part of Alaska. Until recently, only kayaks were allowed into the Tracy Arm. Now, cruise ships somehow navigate the narrow fjord to the Sawyer Glacier. The weather was so good on the day we went that the ship got closer to the glacier than it had all season! It was amazing. Watch for icebergs, seals, waterfalls, mountain striations from the former glacier and especially note the color of the water. The change from black Pacific water to this teal green water was nearly instantaneous! The fjord is part of the 30 mile long Tracy Arm – Fords Terror Wilderness region, located about 60 miles southeast of Juneau. The fjord is truly one of the most dramatic locations in Alaska, or in all of the world, for that matter. The sheer, glacier-carved walls are often shrouded in mist. Glacial calving in Tracy Arm can often be quite spectacular, as huge chunks of ice break off and plunge into the frigid waters below. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see any calving on our cruise aboard the Celebrity Infinity. Literally hundreds of waterfalls cascade down the sides of the fjord, creating an almost otherworldly atmosphere. It’s something you really have to see to believe, it’s just that unique and positively breathtaking to behold. Famed naturalist John Muir compared the glacial-carved sheer …