It's probably going to rain. The
weather will be cool, with midsummer highs in the low 60s. If it's
sunny and warm, celebrate in one of the world's most beautiful places.
On the longest day, the summer solstice, the sun will be above the
horizon for 18 hours and 18 minutes. Thousands of the park's visitors
pass through on cruise ships. Glacier Bay National Park is a refugee
from the ice ages: tidewater glaciers calving into frigid seas,
cliff-flanked fjords and plants creeping up scoured valleys where
glaciers retreated. The park is part of 24-million-acre block (37,500
square miles) of protected land, a World Heritage Site, which includes
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (the nation's largest) and Canada's
Tatsenshini-Alsek Park and Canada's Kluane National Park. The park has
a long bay, which has several smaller arms, and a share of the Gulf of
Alaska coastline. The park is a wildlife lover's dream. Humpback and
killer whales patrol the waters, and the five species of Pacific salmon
swim through. The shoreline is busy with migrating birds. Inland, watch
for bears, both brown and black and "glacier" bears, which are black
bears in a bluish color phase. There are also moose, Sitka deer, wolves
and wolverines. The location of Glacier Bay was created by retreating
glaciers.
Just like in Bolivia Tourism there is mostly based on geography. In
Alaska you have the beautiful glaciers and sights. While here in
Bolivia you mostly have the really tall mountains and beautiful
Illimani. For example in Bolivia you have the famous culture of
Tiahuanacu. Tiahuanacu is really far away from civilization but because
it was such a big culture and spread a lot you can see manifestation of
the culture almost anywhere in Bolivia. Bolivia is also not filled with
nature life but because of it's altitude you can see some pretty
strange and unique animals.
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