24-night Northwest Passage – Across The Top Of The World

Seattle is situated on Puget Sound, surrounded by the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges. The city skyline is impressive with shimmering glass high-rises and 100-year-old buildings standing side by side. This beautiful port city came into its own after gold was discovered in the Klondike and 100,000 people passed through the Northwest in 1897 and 1898 on their quest for wealth in Alaska Visit the Klondike Gold Rush Museum or the Space Needle by day and enjoy a vibrant jazz nightlife in turn-of-the-century Pioneer Square where the city first took root.

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Seattle is situated on Puget Sound, surrounded by the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges. The city skyline is impressive with shimmering glass high-rises and 100-year-old buildings standing side by side. This beautiful port city came into its own after gold was discovered in the Klondike and 100,000 people passed through the Northwest in 1897 and 1898 on their quest for wealth in Alaska Visit the Klondike Gold Rush Museum or the Space Needle by day and enjoy a vibrant jazz nightlife in turn-of-the-century Pioneer Square where the city first took root.

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"There's No Place Like Nome!" Nome, Alaska is most known for being the finish line for the annual Iditarod Race, where dogs and mushers travel 1,049 miles from Anchorage. End of the Trail activities are usually held all month long in March. The list of things to do is a mile long in Nome, including exploring the local wilderness, taking a dog sled ride, Russia is 1 hour away by plane, watch Native dancers, and even have lunch with the Elders at the local Senior Center.

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Exploration within the Canadian High Arctic gives travelers the chance to experience a wintry world just waiting to be discovered. View icy lands untouched by civilization, with tranquil scenes of icy mountains and great glaciers, and arctic creatures like polar bears, narwhals and walruses in their natural habitat.

Exploration within the Canadian High Arctic gives travelers the chance to experience a wintry world just waiting to be discovered. View icy lands untouched by civilization, with tranquil scenes of icy mountains and great glaciers, and arctic creatures like polar bears, narwhals and walruses in their natural habitat.

Exploration within the Canadian High Arctic gives travelers the chance to experience a wintry world just waiting to be discovered. View icy lands untouched by civilization, with tranquil scenes of icy mountains and great glaciers, and arctic creatures like polar bears, narwhals and walruses in their natural habitat.

Exploration within the Canadian High Arctic gives travelers the chance to experience a wintry world just waiting to be discovered. View icy lands untouched by civilization, with tranquil scenes of icy mountains and great glaciers, and arctic creatures like polar bears, narwhals and walruses in their natural habitat.

Exploration within the Canadian High Arctic gives travelers the chance to experience a wintry world just waiting to be discovered. View icy lands untouched by civilization, with tranquil scenes of icy mountains and great glaciers, and arctic creatures like polar bears, narwhals and walruses in their natural habitat.

Ilulissat means icebergs in Greenlandic, and the town has a beautiful location at the mouth of an ice fjord that is filled with enormous icebergs, and is the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere. North of Ilulissat lies the settlement of Oqaatsut/Rodebay, where some of the old buildings from colonial times are today restaurants or huts available for rent. Ilulissat is a modern town but is also know as the dogsled town for all its sleds and snow dogs, and visitors can share in the sledding fun.

Sisimiut is a growing town located in western Greenland. It is one of the main village destinations in Greenland, and an administrative center for the Qeqqata Municipality. The population of Sisimiut was recorded of 5,598 inhabitants living in the town in 2013. One of the main attractions is the multicolor Northern Lights of the Aurora Borealis that take place during the months of September to April. Aside from this amazing phenomenon, many visitors come to Sisimiut to enjoy activities such as fishing, hiking, and dog sledding. 

Nuuk was founded by the unfailingly optimistic Hans Egede - the Danish missionary with soul-conversions on his mind - who promptly named the settlement Good Hope. Today Nuuk is small by modern standards, with a total population of only 14,000. Despite a wealth of land and a paucity of people, Nuuk has insisted on housing the population in immense apartment blocks with imaginative names like Blok P - a kind of Gulag on ice - and the urban sprawl is now spreading out along the road to the airport. Kolonihavnen is a pleasant exception to the rest of Nuuk's Lego-city look: it's a picturesque 18th-century fishing village in the heart of Nuuk and gives some idea of what the town looked like before the industrial harbour was built. Nuuk's real attraction lies in its proximity to any number of excellent day hikes into the hinterland and the fabulous views from the tops of the nearby mountains. Organised tours, boat trips and the rental of equipment is easier from the capital.