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Day 4 – Journey to Dawson City

Enjoy a guided hike through the surrounding wilderness, home to 10 per cent of Canada’s grizzlies, the Porcupine caribou herd, peregrine falcons, and seasonal home to millions of migratory birds. In the late morning we continue our journey by riverboat, stopping for wildlife sightings and a last gourmet shore-picnic. This is the threshold of the world’s most famous gold rush, brought back to life through the stories of your guides. Abandoned settlements and camps are testament to the ebb and flow of humanity into this now reclaimed wilderness.

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Arrive in the fabled Northern Eldorado of Dawson City – back to the time of gold fever and dance hall girls! Savour the sights, the noise, and hustle and bustle of still thriving “Paris” of the north. The cultural richness of Dawson City is a perfect counterpoint to the stark beauty of the preceding days of wilderness. History, gold, shopping, and entertainment await. Explore the Edwardian streets & museums, enjoy the readings of Robert Service, and see the log cabin where Jack London spent his winters.

Savour the sights, the noise, and hustle and bustle of still thriving “Paris” of the north. The cultural richness of Dawson City is a perfect counterpoint to the stark beauty of the preceding days of wilderness. History, gold, shopping, and entertainment await. Explore the Edwardian streets & museums, enjoy the readings of Robert Service, and see the log cabin where Jack London spent his winters.

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The Yukon River

Day 5 – Dawson & Homeward Bound

For millennia, Dawson was used by the Han-speaking people of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in as a small fishing camp - but everything changed when gold was discovered in 1896. Drive or hike over the ‘Dome’ and tour the gold fields, try your hand at gold panning on the world famous Bonanza Creek and see how large-scale mining was done 50 years ago with a visit to Dredge #4.

Your journey of discovery with us winds down as you travel homeward along the Klondike Highway. When this road was built it ended the era of romantic and adventurous paddle wheelers along the river you have so recently experienced. Travel back to Whitehorse via the route of the “modern world”, stop at a twisted log cabin for an old fashioned homemade lunch, often cooked on a working cook stove. Watch the flocks of birds as they make their way through the geologically unique Tintina Trench and see Five-Finger Rapids from a different perspective.

And now it’s time to bid farewell. We will deliver you to the door of your Whitehorse hotel or at the Whitehorse International Airport.

May we suggest you extend your northern vacation? We can help you explore flight options for continuing northward to Alaska, adding a visit to Tombstone Territorial Park and on to the Arctic Circle, or exploring Dawson City a while longer before flying home.

(Scenic overland tour back to Whitehorse is included. Air travel back from Dawson City is available at additional cost and subject to availability.)

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