A journey of navigation through the Bering Strait, which separates two regions inhospitable at the very top of the Northern Hemisphere: Alaska U.S. and Russian peninsula of Kamchatka.
Alaska and Kamchatka - O names alone, report to stop difficult to access in a raw state, and where nature still commands.
The journey begins in Anchorage and then overnight in the largest city in Alaska, hangs up contact with your hotel during the trip: the Clipper Odyssey. The first stop is the island of Kodiak, near the coast, where they visit museums that explain the local culture before the Europeans had arrived here.
Once you arrive at the archipelago of islands Semidi where it docks with semi-rigid in Aghiyuk sands of the island, a sanctuary for migratory birds and where you can spot whales.
Following is the Shumagin Islands archipelago, whose Unga Island is perfect to understand the characteristics of a tundra. The stop is on the outskirts of the peninsula, on Unalaska Island, belonging to the archipelago of the Baby.
From here, navigate in the open sea, through the Aleutian Islands, all of volcanic origin, which almost connect Alaska to Siberia. The northernmost point is reached in the Pribilof Islands, where he visits the town of St. George, inhabited by Russians and Aleuts, and jumps to the neighboring island of St. Paul. The next day is to relax, enjoying the facilities on board.
Continuing the Aleuts - which spread for about two thousand miles - stops on the islands Adak, Kiska and Attu, goes to the islands off the Russian Komandorski and arrives at the port of Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka already. Here, to visit the ethnographic museum and natural history, the cathedral and the market.
After navigating up to the biosphere reserve Kronotskiy, marked by a ridge of towering volcanoes and the abundance of geysers. The return to Petropavlovsk mark the farewell of this fantastic odyssey through the Bering Sea. And with any luck, with an aurora borealis mark the farewell.
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