Le Chic En Rose

Diaries of an independent traveller

There’s only one road in and out of Denali National Park Alaska. We headed back out the way we had come in along the narrow and at times precipitous route till we reached the park entrance. Since we had a long stop for lunch at Denali Backcountry Lodge (see here for Part 1), we didn’t …

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Following on from last week’s post (see here), we had arrived early evening in the little settlement of Creekside, just on the edge of the wild and rugged Denali National Park . We had booked a day excursion to the national park through our accommodation hosts at McKinley Creek Cottages. The assembly point for the …

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After our couple of days sojourn in Anchorage (see here) we continued northwards on our Alaskan trip by road, having picked up a large station wagon from a car hire firm in downtown Anchorage. We could, however, have taken the rail option with the Alaska Railroad, which runs services up as far north as Fairbanks …

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  I did a quick preview of our Alaskan travels just after we got back home here. I’m now starting to collate and write up the stories of our travels there last August. By way of a superb photographic introduction I’m sharing a gallery of photos taken by an Italian girl named Cecilia who we met …

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