6 WONDERS OF THE WILDERNESS
A unique action-packed adventure through Alaska, Yellowstone and the Canadian Rockies.
17 DAY TOUR & CRUISE: ALASKA, YELLOWSTONE & THE ROCKIES Includes return Qantas flights to North America Set sail on a 7 night Glacier Experience Cruise with Royal Caribbean International Explore Yellowstone National Park, Inside Passage in Alaska, as well as Banff and Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies Apr 2023 – Sep 2023
Dramatic, wide-open plains, glacier-carved valleys and electric-blue icebergs: North America boasts some of the world’s greatest expanses of wilderness. This epic expedition kicks off in the western United States’ Yellowstone National Park, famous for its steaming geysers, colossal mountains and rainbow-hued prismatic pools. Touching Idaho and Montana, this is true cowboy country so keep your eyes peeled for buffalo, elk and even grizzlies. More incredible moments await across the Canadian border. Shadowed by the Rocky Mountains, the resort town of Banff offers great shopping and dining. You can also walk the tree-ringed shores of the turquoise Lake Louise and travel the Icefields Parkway – a spectacular stretch of road that winds past soaring peaks and more than 100 ancient glaciers. You’ve got a day to absorb all the food and culture you can in Vancouver before setting sail on a seven-night cruise of Alaska’s Inside Passage aboard Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas.
As you count towering glaciers, icy cliffs, bald eagles and frolicking humpback whales, the ship will stop along the coast so you can explore historic towns, kayak alongside sea otters, fly-fish for the world’s biggest halibut and learn about local Indigenous cultures at the Haines Sheldon Museum. There’s plenty to keep you busy on board, too: join a Latin dance class or have a facial at the Vitality Spa. There are 13 restaurants, cafes and bars to taste your way around – and you’ll probably want to do Chef’s Table, where the five-course menu culminates with a dessert of Valrhona chocolate mousse, peanut butter ganache and salted caramel gelato.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Adventurous types will love Juneau, Alaska’s remote state capital. On day 11, be lured ashore by outdoor thrills such as tundra trekking over Mendenhall Glacier or hiking to Nugget Falls, where icy water thunders down a 115-metre rock face.