Ketchikan, Alaska Aventura cultural e selvagem nativa

It wasn’t bad. Our guide knew a lot about the totem poles and the local culture, and that part was very interesting. However, if you really want to see bears, I would recommend booking a tour specifically dedicated to bear watching. The amount of time you spend at the bear-viewing area is very short—it was less than half an hour for us, around 15 minutes. It’s also a very small area, and you can’t walk very far or venture deeper into the area; that is part of a different tour. The salmon ladder was nice, although it’s very easy to access on your own. If you really want to learn about and see Native people and their culture, I would recommend going to Saxman Native Village instead. That was my mistake for not reading the tour description carefully enough. Overall, I felt it was a very average tour, and it was a great disappointment that we didn’t see any bears.

Our guide, (Beta); an indigenous young woman from Saxman Village shared her wisdom with great stories that she was given by the elders :"As they were told to her":! She was by far the highlight of my tour!

This was a disappointing tour. Our guide was very friendly, professional, and knowledgeable. Though not her fault, there was confusion with another guests reservations, “no show” guests requiring us to wait on them for 15 minutes, and traffic jam in parking area that all resulted in us losing about 20 min of our tour. The location of the included attractions are far. I felt like the majority of our time was spent riding in the van. We started at Totem Bright Park which was beautiful and interesting but was a long ride to get to. By the time we finally arrived there and everyone had to go to the restroom, it was already more than an hour into our 3 hr tour. We stayed there maybe 45 min to a hour. Then we had a long ride to Rotary Beach, but because of the delays we missed low tide and the only thing we saw were two tiny crabs. We were there maybe 10-15 min. which was too long with nothing to see. We then drove to Herring Cove that the description said we’d visit the “famous bear viewing area”. Everything I saw about HC when trying to decide which tour to book to see bears showed a long wooden boardwalk. It looked beautiful and a way to be close to the water, not crowded, and I’d get to go far enough in to see bears. This was the main attraction I wanted to see and why I booked. We pulled up to a small crowded parking area on the side of the road for our “viewing”. The guide said the boardwalk is private property and costs about $200 per person more to use. We saw no bears (which I fully understand is out of the guide’s control) and no salmon. I walked around the metal parking barricade trying to get a better view, but couldn’t see anything worth the time. We stayed maybe 15 min. We then drove back to town, past Creek Street, and pulled up to Salmon Ladder where we had the option to end our tour there or get dropped off at pickup location. We ended here and watched the salmon and explored Creek Street on our own. We spent 3 hours and other than the totem poles, felt like was a waste of our limited time in this beautiful town simply riding in a van. .

Excellent tour! Local tour guide was awesome. Most informative & personable. Highly recommended. Well organized.

Excellent tour and just the right length for a toddler to join along. Our guide was very knowledgeable and answered everyone’s questions. We did have an issue with our Viator reservation only showing 2 people on their records despite the ticket stating 4 people and being charged for all 4. Luckily there were enough seats on the bus for all of us in the end.

Fantastic tour in a smaller coach. Our local tour guide, EchoHawk, was incredibly knowledgeable of the indigenous heritage and culture in Ketchikan and gave us a very personable and friendly afternoon. Would highly recommend over the larger, cruise line tours.

Meta (her name) was excellent and very knowledgeable about her culture and the sites we visited. I selected this tour from several similar ones, because I wanted to support the native people of the area and felt they could provide insights not available on other tours — which I felt she did.

Our tour guide Meta exceeded every expectation! She is so knowledgeable about Ketchikan’s land, history, wildlife, and people. She answered all our questions with detail. She was friendly, easy to talk to, and very engaging. I would highly recommend this tour, especially with Meta!

Meta was very knowledgeable and we learned a lot about the indigenous people in the area. We saw an Eagles nest, which was awesome and enjoyed the totem park. Would recommend this tour to anyone.

Dan was a very knowledgeable tour guide! He gave us an in depth history of Ketchikan and the native culture and customs. We visited the national Totem pole park which was super interesting, as well as getting to see the salmon that are spawning this time of year. We did go to a bear Lookout point and stayed for quite a while, but unfortunately, we had no bear sightings. Apparently we had missed a few of them earlier that morning. Unfortunately, these things are not planned so we were just out of luck in that respect. All in all, Dan was a wonderful tour guide and I would highly recommend him!