ANCHORAGE LODGING

Halfway between New York and Tokyo stand a city of contrasts, a town born in boom that matured into surprisingly cosmopolitan city without losing it's wilderness roots.

It's a melting pot of cultures - Eskimos and Indians who first ventured into the area 600 years ago, Russians who came for fur, prospectors who searched for gold, adventurers who turned a city of tents into a major crossroads for the world.