If your bucket list dreams include seeing the Northern Lights in the heart of the Arctic Circle, this experience with members of your spiritual family and church community is your opportunity to enjoy Mother Nature’s glamorous show at a comfortable pace.

You arrive Anchorage for two nights, ride the Aurora Winter Train to Fairbanks, head another 60 miles north to settle in beneath the Arctic Circle for three nights, and lastly return to Fairbanks with memories of a lifetime for the final night before departing Fairbanks for home.

Winter in Alaska isn’t for everyone – but those with a sense of adventure (and layers of warm clothing) are rewarded with a true winter wonderland.

This group was put together at the request of Father Panayiotis Zougras from St Demetrios GO Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida as a way to enrich community and family ties amongst the parishioners. We look forward to a week of beautiful fellowship.

Do you know that March, right around the Spring Solstice, is the most desirable time of the year for Insiders in Alaska? The reasons are many: The harsh winter starts to fade, the cloud cover recedes, but the snow and ice remain for special winter activities. Then, the thermometer typically rises above zero and the sun lights up the sky for twelve hours a day. AND the probability of seeing the Northern Lights in the Alaskan March sky is excellent.  Local experts say that on clear evenings when the sky is very dark, you should be able to witness the skies light up four out of five nights in Fairbanks. We are weighing the odds in our favor, and spending five nights snuggly nestled in the Aurora Zone of the Arctic Circle.

• Arrive Anchorage

• Transfer to hotel with shuttle

• Rest up and prepare for an adventure of a lifetime

Board a warm bus for a Winter City Tour and travel 25 miles through a winter wonderland we call home.
Visiting Anchorage’s historical sites and cultural landmarks along the way, you experience love and passion for Anchorage first-hand from a local guide. Meet your guides to hear their family stories, share Anchorage’s history, and answer any questions you may have about life in our arctic wonderland. With many stops to explore and experience why we love Alaska, dive right in to local life and Anchorage’s winter-exclusives.

Experience the magic of Alaska’s winter with a twelve hour journey from Anchorage to Fairbanks aboard the Alaska Aurora Train, also known as the Snow Train. This service connects Anchorage and Fairbanks, traveling through a quiet, frozen wilderness that few travelers ever see. Keep an eye out for wildlife such as moose and a stunning view of Mt. Denali if the weather is right. Along the way, be prepared for a possible surprise visit from residents who live miles and miles from others and wave down the train for an impromptu stop.

The Chena Hot Springs Resort is thirty miles up the road from public electricity. But no worries, you will enjoy the electricity generated by the property directly from the hot springs. You'll be amazed with the Geothermal Energy 'Plant' and the Greenhouse that grows the restaurant's salad fixing year round and in temperatures well below zero in the winter (among other things in the summer).

Once you're in awe of the off-grid comforts of roughing it, visit the Aurora Ice Museum. BTW...your level of roughing it is not much. We've selected rooms with two beds and private bathrooms, but if you'd like to try an adorable dry cabin-meaning no bathroom inside, rather an outhouse-just let us know and we'll make the change and adjust the price of your package. (It's more $$ for an outhouse.😱)

Soak in the hot springs, which are 102F, or schedule a massage, just take it easy and with calm because the night is when the excitement explodes in the sky with the Northern Lights (weather cooperating of course).

The exhilarating Dog Sled Tour will give you an appreciation for these incredible, strong and loyal canines. So get ready to snuggle close with others, warm and covered beneath a sleeping bag, while the winter wonder of the trees decorated in a beautiful white unfolds around you.

Did you bring a book or a board game while you wait for the sun to set and the sky to go dark?

There are spots to see the Aurora Borealis at the base of the resort!

Alaska Pipeline Pump Station

Santa House in North Pole, Alaska

“Do I take the dare?

Travelers from a warmer place,

cross the Frozen River...”

Geri Lynn Geasland, artist and poet.

While the itinerary and schedule of experiences will leave you in awe of the wonder of this powerful land, you can choose to add more activities that are not included, but rather possible if you'd like:

• Glacier Helicopter Tour/Hike in Anchorage

• Dog Mushing experience in Anchorage

• Anchorage Museum-walking distance and typically has interactive children's exhibits.

• Kennel Tour at Chena Hot Springs

• Sunset Tour on the Dome in Chena

• Therapeutic Massage and Therapies in Chena

• Museum of the North University of Alaska Fairbanks (great if you have a late flight out of Fairbanks.).

Let us know to provide the links.