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The Canadian Yukon

An Exclusive Holland America Line Experience

By CHRIS OWEN

July 25^th, 2016

NOT IN ALASKA ANYMORE

This year we went back to Alaska with Holland America Line but skipping the cruise to go deep inside the land part of their Alaska Land+Sea Journeys (aka Cruisetours) as well as offerings in the Canadian Yukon.

THE WONDER OF THE YUKON

Holland America Line’s signature Alaska Land+Sea Journeys: three- to seven-night cruises, combined with overland adventures that showcase Denali National Park, the wonder of the Yukon, and many more unforgettable Alaskan locales.

UNIQUELY DIFFERENT

The Yukon is a totally different experience than Alaska and Holland America is the only cruise line that offers the experience. Rightfully so, there is probably not enough room for two big players in The Yukon and Holland America has the Yukon market for cruise travelers dominated.

GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS

Stopping by Dawson City, a mining town that is still quite active today in the search for gold. That ‘searching for gold‘ theme dominates the Yukon in all directions.

GET RICH QUICK

Savvy cruise travelers in town with Holland America Line have already struck gold though with the intense Yukon pre- or post-sailing packages.

EXTEND THE ADVENTURE

We like pre- and post-packages in Alaska mainly because Alaska is so very huge and those sailing on a cruise can only go just so far inland before time in port dictates that they return to the ship.

DIFFERENT CONNECTIONS

Holland America Line days on land are an entirely different experience that enable travelers to make local connections, wherever in the world they do that. In Alaska and in The Yukon, Holland America facilities are geared to cruise traveler and have a system in place for moving them around that works really well.

SYSTEM IN PLACE

Check in the first night and find out why the cruise line suggests packing at least two bags. If your land package is in advance of sailing (our preferred way to go), then one of those bags is picked up and held. The next time you will see it is on your ship, days later. The other bag goes with you wherever you go and will for sure NOT include formal wear.

LONG DAYS, SHORT NIGHTS

Alaska and The Yukon are quite casual…but quite different. It is said that Alaska is “the land of the midnight sun“. The Yukon is too, with the sun merely dimming some at 3AM. To say it goes down is a stretch.

BEYOND ALASKA

Active mining towns of Dawson City and Whitehorse continue to draw visitors as something “beyond Alaska“. It‘s not the old ruins of a mining town, and there are plenty of those there too. This is an active gold-producing mine operation and those along for the ride, do just that.

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“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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