A super-scenic, high-altitude flight from Sitka to Anchorage Alaska

A very scenic flight through Alaska and Canada with lots of rugged mountains

Apparently Switzerland is big on cheese...and chocolate...and watches...and banks...and the Swiss LOVE their trains. so much so that in this small country has over 5300 km of track to cater for the countries obsession with trains. All we know is that James Bond's mother is Swiss, Lady Monique Bond von Vaud

Apparently Austrian physicist Ernst Mach discovered in 1888 that above the speed of sound, the air behaves very differently. In 1929 he was honored by the adoption of a set of Mach numbers which are still used to designate velocities above the speed of sound and postcards were first published in Austria. All we know is that Austria is home to approximately 20,000 schnapps distilleries...

Apparently Slovakia has the solar clock that shows the accurate solar time and it is the only one of its kind and According to some research, Slovakian women are considered to be one of the top three countries with the most beautiful women in the whole world. All we know is that Slovak and Slovenian embassies gathers once a month with their associates to swap wrongly-addressed letters!

Today we complete the Nordic part. Apparently Finland is known as the country of a thousand lakes, Finland actually has 188,000 lakes and on Thursdays Finns eat pea soup and pancakes. Nobody knows why! All we know is that Finns eat weird squeaky cheese. Leipäjuusto, it really squeaks when you eat it...

The home of flat packs. Apparently “Siri” is a popular Swedish name, and it’s got nothing to do with iPhones and one of Sweden’s kings, Erik of Pomerania, became a pirate of the Baltic Sea after he was forced to abdicate. All we know is that assembling IKEA furniture takes 5 times longer than described in their assembly manuals...

Norway, Viking country. Apparently mountains make up two-thirds of Norway’s landscape and there are more bears in Svalbard than people. All we know is that is that Norwegian passports are really cool. No, Really! Put a genuine, 100% authentic Norwegian passport under a UV light, and boom – you can see the Northern Lights!

This flight plan follows a path that Hannibal may have used to cross the Alps.

Apparently Siberian huskies saved Nome, Alaska from a diptheria outbreak by bringing back the serum for it and Alaska's state mineral is Gold. All we know is that Nome got its name from British officer with bad handwriting who wrote an annotation on a map saying, "? Name". A cartographer copied this for the chart and read it as C Nome, or Cape Nome, giving the surrounding area the same name.