If you have never been on a cruise or are a veteran of cruises there is one area where the air is clean and crisp and the nature is untouched. An Alaskan Cruise could be a great way to spend a week between May and September. Many companies will book a Princess Cruise vacation or another company to find cheap Alaskan cruises.

There are many companies that will book your cruise. These same companies can book and help you plan your off ship adventures. From helicopter tours of the wilderness, mountains and glaciers to watching a dance performance from the member of the local Tlingit culture, to have an Alaskan Fishing trip. All these are possible while on your cruise.

Self contained the ship provides you with spa treatments, casino action as well as numerous daytime activities and an active nightlife.

Touring Alaska by cruise ship is one way to see the natural beauty that reaches straight out into the water. When you reach these historic sights you can leave the ship and have some planned or unplanned excursions on land. There are always plenty of activities to choose from.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States of America. It is also the least densely populated which explains the nickname of "The Last Frontier".

Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867. In 1880 the mining camp founded by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau. Joe and Richard had listened to the advice of the members of the Tlingit and mined in Snow Slide Gulch and that was where they discovered gold nuggets. Word spread and the camp grew into a small town due to the miners that arrived to find their own fortunes. The name changed several times before the miners decided on the name Juneau. The current Capital of Alaska was the city of Sitka but once fur trading and Whaling declined around the turn of the 20th century, Juneau became the Capital of Alaska in 1906.

The state didn't become an organized territory until 1912. In 1959 Alaska became the 49th state of the United States of America.

• Glacier Bay National Park

• Hubbared Glacier

• Icy strait Point

• Juneau

• Ketchikan

• Prince Rupert

• Prince William Sound and College Fjord

• Seward

• Sitka

• Skagway

• Victoria

• Wrangell