The old town of Juneau is a small city, about a kilometer long and wide, and the famous Golden Creek, or Golden Creek, runs through the city and empties into the Strait of Gastino in the southeast corner of the city.

When Joe. Juno and Richard. It was from here that Harris walked up the Golden Creek and eventually found a large amount of gold placer in the avalanche valley, the source of the Golden Creek, which sparked the gold rush in Alaska and turned this otherwise uninhabited area into a hot spot for people.

And the reason for all this is those yellow-orange-orange gold!

By now, although many of Alaska's gold mines have been closed, there are still many people who think of Alaska and the first thing that comes to mind is the golden gold, which has become one of Alaska's most famous business cards.

The Holiday Inn is next to Golden Creek, standing on the top floor of the Presidential Suite, you can clearly see the famous Golden Creek - Golden Creek is the transliteration name of Golden Creek, from the other floor-to-ceiling window of the presidential suite to the east, is the famous Golden Creek Valley.

Three world-class gold mines have been discovered around the famous Golden Creek Valley, which once made Juno the world's largest gold producer, such as the Mount Roberts that can be seen from the presidential suite on the top floor of the Holiday Inn, which was once the world's number one gold mine, but this super gold mine was shut down as early as the 40s of the last century after more than 60 years of mining.

Although there is still a gold mining industry in Juneau, it is no longer as dominant in the city as it used to be, and with the gradual completion of gold mining in the vicinity of Juneau, the city is gradually transforming into a tourist city.

Because Juneau is now the only capital city in the U.S. that is not connected to the country by land road, it has a unique geographical location and invincible scenery. Let this become a city that more and more tourists choose to visit.

Of course, Tang Feng came to Juno this time in the name of tourism.

In fact, it is not only Juno that was once rich in gold, but also on the island called Da Grass, across the narrow Strait of Gastino, opposite Juneau. There is also a world-class gold mine, which, of course, is still mined today, and the annual production is not small.

In fact, from Juneau and Douglas Island opposite, it can be seen that in the Alexandria Islands and the surrounding area, it is actually a treasure land rich in gold and other precious metals, but the natural conditions here are very harsh, even the top survey team, five can not fully survey this area.

After dinner that night. After looking at it for half a night, Tang immediately changed his plan to visit the state government officials first, and instead rented a 55-foot yacht through the Holiday Inn under the pretext of visiting the Alexandria Islands, and the next day he went all the way south to Gravina Island.

Enjoying the Alexandria Islands on a yacht this season is definitely a special experience.

The entire Alexandria archipelago is actually an undersea peak that has been exposed to the sea due to the drop in sea level. So the islands here are very distinctive, not so much islands. It is more appropriate to say that there are mountains outcropping from sea level, because on these islands there are few large plains to be seen, and more of them are strange rocky mountains.

Because it is located in the alpine zone, there are glaciers on the peaks of those mountains that are more than 1,500 meters above sea level, and this kind of scenery is also extremely rare.

It's like the 10th largest island in the United States. Baranov Island, ranked 137th in the world, has a peak of just over 1,600 meters, but the snow on the top of the mountain is endless, and when viewed from the strait, it looks like an endless piece of jade.

You must know that Mt. Fuji in Japan is just over 3,700 meters above sea level. However, there is a permanent snow line at the top of the mountain, and the latitude of the Alexandria Islands is much higher than that of Mt. Fuji, so it is not surprising that there are glaciers on such a low altitude.

From Juneau to Gravina Island, it is almost a distance of nearly 500 kilometers, almost from the northern tip of the Alexandria Islands to the southern end, Tang Feng and his family played all the way, and it took less than a day to arrive at Ketchikan on the opposite side of Gravina Island.

Located in the southeast corner of Alaska, the city of Ketchikan is the sixth-largest city in Alaska. But what is the population of this city, which claims to be the sixth largest in the state? 8050 people!

This population figure is not even comparable to the number of people in a small town in the interior of China, but in Alaska, it is indeed the sixth largest city in the state!

There is no way, the vast land and sparsely populated area is another business card of Alaska.

Similar to Juno, Ketchikan is a city built on the hillside and seaside, so the city is also a very narrow city. Of course, it's definitely not as narrow as Juno's. However, a city of just over 8,000 people is no more than a kilometer wide and six or seven kilometers long.

Kechikan is a small city with tourism and salmon farming as the mainstay of its economy, and the "rain capital of the United States" refers to this small city, which is rainy for more than 200 days a year, and the annual rainfall is as high as 4,000 millimeters; Another nickname for the city is even more famous, the "Salmon Capital of the World".

The world-famous Canadian salmon viewing spot "Wafer Creek" is famous enough, right? But compared to Ketchikan, it is nothing. The salmon return path of Wawarf Creek is all artificial site, and in Kechikan, every year when the salmon return season comes, the entire Kechikan Creek is densely packed with salmon, and even at a glance, the original crystal clear river water has turned black.

The salmon return in Ketchikan City, named after Ketchikan Creek, is a natural miracle without artificiality, and is naturally more famous than Wafer Creek in Canada.

After two days in this quaint town, Tang Feng rented two Land Rovers and took a ferry across the Tangas Strait into Gravina Island, opposite Ketchikan.

On Gravina Island, there is the Kechikan International Airport, which was used as a military airport during World War II and later converted into a civilian airport. To the north of the airport is a small port for loading timber, which is the most famous source of the island of Gravina.

Tang Feng's ferry docked at this improvised port. As soon as the two Range Rovers got off the ferry, they took an easy road to the Wallendal Mountains in the middle of the island, which is the destination of the Tang Dynasty. (To be continued......)