Alaska Cruise: Top Excursions with HX Expeditions

Let Erin and Phil book this same experience for you, personally! We started ABC Trips to offer our bespoke itineraries to those seeking authentic culture, epic landscapes, and uncompromising luxury. 👉🏼 https://abctrips.com The best part of an expedition cruise? Half of it doesn't even happen on the ship. We tendered into Klawock — a Łingít community of about seven hundred, which means when our ship rolls in, we casually bump the town's population by roughly fifty percent. It's a ten-thousand-year-old community, one of the oldest in the Northwest, and its Totem Park has 21 poles carved from red cedar, each one a family's whole story. The eerie detail: the originals were mortuary totems, with cremated remains from the families sealed inside. This is also the hometown of Elizabeth Peratrovich, who muscled the first anti-discrimination law in the entire U.S. through the Alaska legislature in 1945. Small town, giant footprint. Then we swapped our sea legs for hiking shoes at Thompson Pass above Valdez — wildflowers, glaciers, and bashful marmots (basically alpine beavers). Forty-five minutes from the port and you forget you're on a cruise at all. This is where we learned that gorges with steep walls like this one are carved by their rivers, while the ones with gently-curved sides like this were formed by glaciers. The more you know. And for the very last excursion of the whole trip: sea kayaking in Prince William Sound. Quiet water, glaciers all around, just us and the drip of the paddles. Okay, and also the drip of more liquid sunshine. But what a way to full-circle us right back to that first misty Zodiac just over a week ago. This place is truly poetic. So here's the tea. We don't just film these trips — Erin and I are professional travel advisors, and this is the actual job. If Alaska's been on your hit list, ping us at abctrips.com and we'll manage the heavy lifting: finding your ideal itinerary and sailing, negotiating the smallest prices and biggest perks, and handholding all the way through disembarkation so you've got a dedicated, expert concierge in your corner — the whole shebang. But if this video hits, go watch the full-length expedition film on our YouTube channel — it covers all ten days, full detail, start to finish. And follow the channel so you catch our upcoming adventures. Browse our unheard of last-minute deals on vacations, resorts, and adventure cruises around the world: https://abctrips.com/