The Alaska I Had Dreamt Of
Where Nature Took My Breath Away -Anupama S Mani Don Sheldon Amphitheatre on Ruth Glacier, Denali, Alaska Last week I wrote about my visit to Anchorage in Alaska. From Anchorage we undertook a three-hour train journey to reach Talkeetna, a small town with a population of barely 1,000 people (shockingly low for Indians). There are full-service rustic lodges to cozy wood cabins and historic downtown inns as tourists flock here for glacier flights, rafting, mountain biking, hiking, camping and fishing all of which also feed the town economy. Air taxi companies ferry visitors for flightseeing trips to Denali by ski planes. Talkeetna is chosen because it offers the most ...