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    • 08.07.2013Anchoring in Anchorage

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      Here some fun facts about Anchorage: Although it’s not Alaska’s capital (that’s Juneau), it’s Alaska’s largest city. Nearly 290’000 people live here, which is ~40% of the entire Alaskan population. The only reason Anchorage is not Russian today, is because in 1867, US Secretary of State William Seward arranged to purchase Alaska from Russia for a ridiculous $7.2 million…
      Anchorage is nicely located between the Pacific Ocean and the Kenai Mountains and the Port of Anchorage receives 95% of all goods destined for Alaska.

      We’ve now been in Anchorage a bit longer than initially planned waiting for the weather on the Kenai Peninsula to improve.

      Some of the Anchorage highlights so far:
      We hiked the Flat Top Mountain (1082 m) with a beautiful view over the Anchorage area.

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      We enjoyed some great seafood in Anchorages supposedly best steak and seafood restaurant, the Club Paris (no clue why they named it that…).

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      We had some Alaskan King Crab Legs and a Petite Filet Mignon and Prawns for dinner.
      It’s a bit of work to get the meat out of the legs, but it tastes finger licking good!

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      And since there is always room for dessert, we shared a great Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Pie. It looked so delicious that we only remembered to take a picture once it was already gone 🙂

      As you can see on the pictures there were also lots of wild animals in Anchorage which seemed to get along quite well with Andy 🙂

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      Tomorrow we will head south to the Kenai Peninsula, where the weather should finally be good again. We’re especially looking forward to a boat trip directed to the Kenai Fjords National Park.

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      This entry was posted in North-America, WorldMap and tagged Alaska, Food
      • Comments

        1. haifeng says:
          9.07.2013 at 19:17

          The beard is growing.
          The food looks delicious.

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        2. Sharon says:
          10.07.2013 at 07:55

          $7.2 million is a lot more expensive than the $24 in trinkets paid for Manhattan! At the time Alaska was referred to as Seward’s folly, so you can see what public opinion is worth.

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        3. Colombo says:
          10.07.2013 at 08:53

          Andreas:
          This is only a suggestion, but I think if you want to take another picture with a moose, the proper way is with your index finger in one of its nostrils. Trust me, this will be a one of a kind piece of memorabilia. 🙂

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