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Day 7 Juneau/Petersburg

In Petersburg, Tides Inn will pick
you up and take you to the hotel. Car
rental is possible from Tides Inn but is
not a requirement as most attractions
are close. Petersburg is a true Alaskan
working community that makes its living
from the sea. A Norwegian fishing village,
Petersburg is located on Frederick
Sound near the summer feeding grounds
of hundreds of humpback whales.
Enjoy lunch at Coastal Cold Storage
then walk to the harbor to see the
canneries and fishing boats unloading
the day’s catch. Try out Inside Passages
Adventures in Petersburg for unhurried,
full day naturalist-guided tours to watch
humpback whales in Frederick Sound.

Day 8 Petersburg/Ketchikan
In the morning Tides Inn will take
you back to the airport for your flight to
Ketchikan. Upon arrival, rent a car from
Alaska Car Rental and drive onto the
ferry for the trip across the water, as the
airport is on an island. Once in Ketchikan,
three outstanding accommodations are
Ketchikan Cape Fox Lodge, Edgewater
Inn and The Landing. Ketchikan is
the perfect place for a flight seeing
adventure to view Misty Fjords National
Monument, a nature preserve where
glacial fjords rise majestically 3,000 feet
above sea level.

The city has the largest collection of
totem poles in Alaska. These enormous
carved tree trunks experienced their
peak in the mid 1700s -1800s. The totems
told illustrious stories of events and
legends of the clan but unfortunately
the totems and villages were abandoned
when people moved into cities. There

Fishermen’s Memorial Park

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