On day 5 of your tour board Holland America’s MS Westerdam for the start of your seven-night, full-board cruise along Alaska’s coast.

Comprised of 3.3 million acres of rugged mountains, dynamic glaciers, temperate rainforest, wild coastlines, and deep sheltered fjords, Glacier Bay National Park is a highlight of the Inside Passage and part of a World Heritage Site-one of the world’s largest international protected areas. Alaska's capital can only be reached by water or air which will give you the opportunity to take in some of the breathtaking scenery.

The Columbia River Gorge encompasses 292,500 acres spanning two states, extreme southern Washington and northern Oregon. It runs from the mouths of Sandy River to the Deschutes River. The Columbia River Gorge is unique in both its natural and cultural history, as well as its designation as a National Scenic Area.

No visit to Seattle is complete without a trip to the top of the Space Needle. Originally built as a tourist attraction for the city's 1962 World's Fair, the structure was meant to evoke the future. Now the future is here, the Needle has become the city's favorite antique. A dancer figure, with its arms skyward, served as inspiration for architect Victor Steinbrueck's design.

Five acres in Washington Park were set aside as a rose-growing test garden in 1917. During World War I, the Portland Rose Garden became a haven for varieties European growers feared would be destroyed during the bombing, and today it is the oldest official, continuously operated public rose test garden in the United States with more than 8,000 rose plants.