Juneau - Cruise Day 5, Friday

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.