Anchorage to Whittier Wildlife Adventure
Description
Enjoy a 3 hour tour from Anchorage to the Whittier Cruise Terminal. Traveling on the scenic Seward Highway and through the stunning Portage Pass. Your driver will guide you through the history of the Turnagain Arm, Portage Pass, and Whittier. From the Indigenous people who first lived there, English exploration of the area, to the discovery of gold, and how the Strange town of Whittier got it's start. This tour includes a stop at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. The nonprofit center that is dedicated to preservation, education, research, and animal care. The center takes in injured and orphaned animals to rehabilitate and provide permanent homes at the center. The tour ends at the Whittier Cruise Terminal for you to board your cruise ship. Pick up times: 11:30 Downtown Anchorage - (939 W 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501) Hotel Captain Cook 12:00 Anchorage Airport - Baggage Claim level outside door #1 in the courtyard by the large red semicircles.
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Experience Alaska’s wildlife via the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center's scenic 1.5-mile loop, accessible by foot, by bike, or by car, while learning about our resident wildlife via interpretive signs at each animal habitat. AWCC encourages you to visit the center with your walking shoes and camera in hand for an educational Alaskan experience to remember. The sanctuary maintains over 200 acres of spacious habitats for resident animals to feel at home displaying their natural wild behavior as education ambassadors for their species. It is common for visitors to see brown bears swimming, moose strutting, wood bison roaming, muskox playing, wolves posing, porcupines climbing, and more!
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Important Note: Guest can carry their own infant carrier as we have seatbelts on each seats.
Reviews(53)
JC was a great driver and tour guide!!! Thanks for a great time. Best way to transfer to Whittier.
Sam was a great guide. The excursion gave you a nice added experience instead of just driving to our cruise ship!
Sam was our guide and made our experience positive & memorable.
Very nice and very scenic. Our driver, Sam, was a great driver and very knowledgeable about the area.
The drive was beautiful, and our driver was knowledgeable, but the sanctuary itself was underwhelming.
Great way to get from Anchorage to your cruise. Nate was great and very informative with lots of Alaskan knowledge.
It was a great way to get to the cruise from Ankorage. The conversation was great and we had plenty of time there. We stopped alongside a glacier on the way and had priority in the line through the tunnel. Sam, our guide, was excellent!
This was an excellent experience! When we first booked our Alaska cruise, we were dismayed that the train to Whittier had sold out. After some searching we found this tour, which included a stop at the Alaskan conservation center. We loved it! 1) our tour guide Sam was the best! He gave us such good information all throughout the tour. Loved it. He also gave us some good background on the conservation center. The views on the way to Whittier were excellent and Sam gave us a very good lesson in science and history. 2) the bus was on time and very comfortable 3) we were not cramped on the bus, All in all this was a great tour and a great way to get to the cruise port.
Our driver’s native Alaskan so we learned more about the area and their lives. Our driver’s really thoughtful - he drove us around first in the rain so we at least got to see everything.
Knowledgeable and fun tour guide, easy to communicate and fun trip from airport to the whittier pier
