Don’t be misled into thinking that because you fly into Cancun to get to Riviera Maya that it is anything like Cancun and its spring break, party-like atmosphere…it is far from it. The Riviera Maya has been set aside by Mexican government as a semi-protected area, and as such it cannot become touristy, high-rise resort type of destination you find in Cancun hotel zone. Resorts can only be built 3-stories or less in height and they have to be constructed to embrace surrounding vegetation, wildlife, and topography. It is a much more family-friendly and romantic vacation destination.

You can watch movies about it, you can hear about it, you can read about it, but until you partake of it, you have no clue how thrilling it is to cruise Glacier Bay.

Glacier Bay Mountain ranges with peaks over 10,000 feet, culminating in 15,320 foot high Mount Fairweather within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Nowhere else in Alaska, or in world, can you see amazing sight of tidewater glacier that spreads from a peak 3 miles high down to sea level, that is known as Margerie Glacier.

Only 200 years ago, beautiful fjords and cruising areas of "Glacier Bay", were buried under ice thousands of feet thick. In 1794, Capitan George Vancouver saw face of an enormous glacier at Glacier Bay's entrance at Icy Strait.

Naturalist John Muir found in 1879, that vast ice had withdrawn an impressive 48 miles up Bay. Amazingly, by 1916, its face had receded 65 miles all way back to entrance of Tarr Inlet, where it is today.

So, in only 200 years, these massive glaciers have left us with beautiful, 65 mile long bay we enjoy now.

The glaciers on Bay are extremely active and quite frequently, you get to hear or see "calving". It occurs when huge parts of glacier breaks off and falls crashing into Bay.

The calving imitates an explosion, reverberating off walls of glacier, and ice makes a giant splash as it smashes into Glacier Bay.