The most well known type of art made by Alaska Natives is the totem pole. No Alaska vacation is complete without seeing a few. Carver Nathan Jackson (the most famous carver in the world) works at the Saxman Carving Shed in Saxman, two miles south of Ketchikan. You can see him work there most days during the summer.

Alaska Glaciers

Beautiful and a must see on your trip

There are three ways to view a glacier in Alaska. By air, sea, or land. There is nothing more amazing than walking right up to the face of a glacier that you can touch.

By sea:
Cruise liners pull close to the "rivers of ice" in Glacier Bay National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Prince William Sound. Smaller boats carry sightseers on day trips to the blue ice of Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords National Park. These trips are readily available in Valdez, Whittier and Seward. Cruises and day trips are the way to go if you want to hear the legendary thunder of calving glaciers and see huge faces of blue ice.

Glacier
By land:
A number of glaciers are within viewing distance of Alaska's highways, and you can even walk up to (and on) some of them. Alaska has several roadside glaciers where the adventurous can park, walk a short distance and touch the ice. Visitors also can find themselves across a river or a lake from a glacier. They can hike on glacial moraines and admire the U-shaped valleys carved by these rivers of ice.

Glaciers

By air:
Sightseeing trips aboard small planes and helicopters provide both an overreaching view and sometimes a glacier landing. Flightseeing companies that land on the ice provide cold-weather gear and guide you on a safe area of the glacier.