Just can't help reitereating - this place is a beauty. The 4 hours train journey that I took to Seward is something that I will definitely remember for rest of my life.
The day begin early as the train starts around 6-45. The train station itself had some surprise to offer - it is located on the sea shore! It wasn't very unusual for me that the train started 20 minutes late! :-) The track runs close to the sea for a few minutes. Sea is not entirely correct since it is a water inlet(Cook Inlet) from sea that runs a long way into the land. As the train gets into the city of Anchorage from here, the most fun thing to watch is the parking lots for airplanes! Alaska has a high density of people who own microlites and you get to see a lot of them where-ever you go around! Don't be surprised if you are walking by and see a plane land in some empty place next to you!
The moment we are out of Anchorage, the tracks again run close to the inlet. For the next two hours, it is a great pleasure to watch the inlet, which looks more like a lake. To the other side of the train are mountains covered with snow. The surroundings look so great that I wish the journey would go on and on for ever. Once the inlet passes behind, it is snow all around but for the tracks. It looks like a milky cover with a mountains forming the edge and the train tracks running in the middle of them. On the way we pass thru a few glacires, hundreds of mountains, creeks and snow filled water bodies and coniferous trees. Every inch of the land brings out a wish to be living here forever. People here are sure lucky......
