An artist, designer, and technologist, explores creative travel and her top Travel Gems, unveiling Alaska's nature and cultural richness.

Alaska

"Start from Anchorage, the city, and you can go to the Anchorage Museum. It also features a lot of native Alaskan artworks. It's a great museum. I did artist residency there and also showed some works there."

Anchorage Museum

"Drive to the Matanuska Glacier. The facade is privately owned and probably the most accessible glacier closer to Anchorage. So you can go work on the glacier, have the spikes on your feet, and take a hike on it. You can go pretty deep and cross the glacier lakes, jumping through the puddles created by the mouth of the glacier. And you can really touch the glacier, hug the glacier, you can be super close and intimate with the glacier."

Matanuska Glacier

"Kayak on the Portage Glacier. In the summer, you can kayak there, and in the winter, you can do the cross-country ski and ski across the lake to get to the bottom of the glacier. There are also hiking routes."

Portage Glacier

"And if you go to Juneau, it's another different biome, the hike, the forests. It's very moist and lush. Mendenhall Glacier is where we did our glacier's dance music film and turned the 60 years of glacier mountain data into dance and music. The blue color is distinctive, and often you can encounter some glacier caves. Even though it's totally by luck — sometimes two weeks after seeing a cave is gone. It's about four hours to hike there and back."

Mendenhall Glacier

"Denali National Park, there's a snow mountain where you can take an airplane, and it lands on top of the glacier. And you can see the glacier from a different perspective, whereas in the middle of the s, the shape, compared to the other glacier where you see it at the front at the facade."

Denali National Park