Fly from Fairbanks to Barrow, an Inupiat village perched on a headland jutting out into the Arctic Ocean. The northernmost community in the United States, Barrow is one of the world's largest Inupiat settlements with a native population of over 63 percent. The city is also one of the top five birding spots in Alaska.

Barrow has an Arctic climate, with a minimum temperature below freezing 324 days of the year. We will provide a parka in Barrow, but be sure to pack your woollies and dress in layers.

A four-hour sightseeing tour includes a ceremonial dance and a chance to participate in an Eskimo blanket toss. Now done purely for entertainment, this was once the method of tossing a hunter high in the air to see if any game could be spotted across the vast expanses of treeless tundra.

Learn how whales, seals, and walrus were hunted here and their meat dried and preserved. There's time to shop for furs, native yo-yos, mukluks, fossil ivory and bone carvings before flying back to Fairbanks.