TOURS, ETC. : WILDLIFE TOURS CRUISE KENAI FJORDS.Byline: Daily News Travelers visiting Alaska this spring and summer can tour Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords National Park, 669,983 acres (271,248 hectares), S Alaska. The park features the great Harding Icefield and its radiating glaciers, many of which descend to tidewater, and a magnificent series of fjords along the coast of Kenai Peninsula, with rain , sightseeing among glaciers and seeing wildlife, on 110-mile Kenai Fjords Tours excursions. Six-hour cruises, with three departures from Seward daily May through September, and 8-1/2-hour cruises cost $99 per person for adults, $49 for children under 12. Tours are also available to Northwestern Fjord fjord or fiord (fyôrd), steep-sided inlet of the sea characteristic of glaciated regions. Fjords probably resulted from the scouring by glaciers of valleys formed by any of several processes, including faulting and erosion by and Resurrection Bay Resurrection Bay is a bay on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, United States. Its main settlement is Seward, located at the head of the bay. It received its name from Alexandr Baranov, who was forced to retreat into the bay during a bad storm in the Gulf of Alaska. . Information: (800) 478-8068. Bike Ireland: Butterfield & Robinson will lead five-day bicycling trips through County Wicklow and the eastern coast of Ireland on departures from June through September, with trips starting and ending in Dublin. Stops along the way include Mount Usher Gardens, Glendalough Monastery, Tinakilly, Rathsallagh House, Rossborough House and Glessington Lake. Cost is $2,625 per person, double occupancy; singles pay an additional $275. Information: (800) 678-1147. Carnaval in Mexico: A three-day, two-night trip to Ensenada for Carnaval - a sort of Mexican Mardi Gras - is offered by Baja California Tours, departing San Diego on Feb. 9. Events include guided tours to La Bufadora sea geyser geyser (gī`zər) [Icel.], hot spring from which water and steam are ejected periodically to heights ranging from a few to several hundred feet. , the Carnaval parade and the Fiesta of the Oppressed op·press tr.v. op·pressed, op·press·ing, op·press·es 1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny. 2. Husband. Cost is $136 per person, double occupancy, and includes transportation, two nights' lodgings, two meals and excursions. Information: (619) 454-7166. Mush, you huskies: Call of the Wild, a tour company specializing in wilderness touring for women, will lead a small group to Alaska March 4-13 to follow the Iditarod dog sled race and to experience the winter lifestyle. Participants will drive a dog sled, go cross-country skiing and snowshoeing snow·shoe n. A racket-shaped frame containing interlaced strips, as of leather, that can be attached to the foot to facilitate walking on deep snow. intr.v. , and stay in a log-cabin castle. The group is limited to 15 women. Cost is $2,600 per person and includes flights inside Alaska, ground transportation, admissions, activities, lodging and meals. Information: (510) 849-9292. Dive, dive: Air fare from Miami is included in the price of a four-day, three-night Grand Cayman dive package offered by Bob Soto's Diving. Cost through April 14 is $499 per person, double occupancy, and includes three nights' lodgings, air fare, Cayman airport transfers, dive transportation, and diving daily. A five-night package costs $699; an eight-night dive package costs $899. Air fare to Miami is not included. Information: (800) 262-7686. Maiden voyage: The ms Rotterdam VI, Holland America Line's newest ship, will sail on its first cruise from Venice on a 12-day trip through the Eastern Mediterranean beginning Oct. 6. Port calls include Katakolon, Athens and Mykonos/Delos, Greece; Istanbul and Kusadasi, Turkey; and Ancona, Italy. Costs start at $2,816 per person, double occupancy, with early-booking discounts. For information, contact a travel agent. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: A killer whale killer whale or grampus, a large, rapacious marine mammal, Orcinus orca, of the dolphin family. Male killer whales may reach a length of 30 ft (9 m) and females half that length. surfaces near the M/V M/V Motor Vehicles M/V Motor Vessel M/V Merchant Vessel Fjordland on a Kenai Fjords cruise. |
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