I woke up the next morning to the Juneau pier outside of my window.
Here's the view from the Promenade Deck as we were disembarking the ship .
Getting to St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church,
which was started by Orthodox native Alaskans after the Russians sold
the territory, was a bit of a stretch of the legs through the town and
up the hill from the pier.
After visiting in their book store/gift shop and spending some time in the Church, where we met Father Michael who had recently moved from California, we took a tour of the State Capitol Building.
All of the pictures of legislators were of white folks. The pictures of the native Tlingits were from the turn of the 20th century and depicted them in tribal, sometimes scary, dress.
We headed back downtown and had delicious
freshly made chocolates for lunch and stopped in a few tourist stores
which displayed Russian or native gifts.
The Mount Roberts Tram is owned and operated by the Tlingits. Since the sort of steep ticket price includes the museum tour and an
award winning movie about native culture, combined with the views, it
was all worth while.
I'll add some more pictures here at the bottom and in my photo's and put them all in my Juneau Collection.
Here's the view from the Promenade Deck as we were disembarking the ship .
Getting to St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church,
which was started by Orthodox native Alaskans after the Russians sold
the territory, was a bit of a stretch of the legs through the town and
up the hill from the pier.
After visiting in their book store/gift shop and spending some time in the Church, where we met Father Michael who had recently moved from California, we took a tour of the State Capitol Building.
All of the pictures of legislators were of white folks. The pictures of the native Tlingits were from the turn of the 20th century and depicted them in tribal, sometimes scary, dress.
We headed back downtown and had delicious
freshly made chocolates for lunch and stopped in a few tourist stores
which displayed Russian or native gifts.
The Mount Roberts Tram is owned and operated by the Tlingits. Since the sort of steep ticket price includes the museum tour and an
award winning movie about native culture, combined with the views, it
was all worth while.
I'll add some more pictures here at the bottom and in my photo's and put them all in my Juneau Collection.
Though the continuously flowing water fountain of mountain water, the tram, the eagles (captive or otherwise), the hike, and the chairs in the capitol building were all refreshing, vertigo-inspiring, majestic, magnificent-view-presenting, and bizarrely comfortable (respectively), I think the chocolate still managed to shove it's way to the top of my list in that area. . . Except of course for the church. Singing in St. Nicholas still wins out.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how well a fudge factory would do down here. . . . maybe it would be too hot and melty.
We were told that St. Nicholas was built by Tlingit, after a visit by a Bishop from California. The Bishop had brought them some icons, and seeing the icon of St. Nicholas, several of the natives exclaimed that he is the man who had been instructing them in dreams. The Bishop authorized building of the church, and of course it was named appropriately.
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