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travel in Greenland

Greenland travel by sled

Greenland

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Late April '09 Meeting the hunters on the trail - Holly is in red coat Photos and Video clips
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Riga Station Road
Millerton, NY 12546
Toll Free 888 686-6784

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"Travel to and in Greenland"

Greenlanders can't imagine a land more beautiful than Greenland. They may be right about that.While travelling with Greenlanders we discovered that, like ourselves, they often stop to look at the scenery.Most villages in Greenland have a well-worn path or even sets of steps that lead to a vantage point with the best views. On each trip we make to Greenland we experience and observe some new-to-us aspects of Greenland. We've often sent travelers as side trips from Iceland and now we have more variety in travel to, and tours within, Greenland. (One of us [BV] has always been interested in the Inuit culture and artifacts and built (and rebuilt) several Greenlandic kayaks - but that is another story. Here are some photos and words if that interests you. We constantly marvel that human beings could come up with the technologies to survive in these environs!)

East Greenland is easy to reach from Iceland and offers a glimpse of a culture far removed from the modern "busyness" world. A visit is also a way to experience landscapes very few people have seen. There are only a few settlements and towns on this coast and an awful lot of their lives revolve around hunting, fishing and their dogs. There are not the huge, mountain-sized icebergs that one expects in, say, Ilulissat but the seas are full of bergs from bread box size to those that would dwarf a four car garage.
The West Coast has relics of the Viking settlements from 1,000 years ago, access to the ice cap and icebergs of sizes and volumes that warrant inclusion of parts as UN Heritage Sites. A number of calving glaciers and the southward sweep of ice bergs from the Denmark Straits puts a bit of ice in these waters. Pastoralism was instituted by the Vikings and sheep raising is practical and practiced. Even a few potatoe fields; the term Banana Coast is really just a joke, though.

Greenland areas (via Iceland) The only regular routes to Greenland are through Copenhagen , Denmark or Reykjavik, Iceland..

NEW (and exciting) Sea and Ice Fly into Ilulissat for some time around Disco Bay then take the coastal steamer from village to village for 3 days until you reach the southern town of Narsaq. A stay in Narsaq rounds out your experiencing West Greenland.

NorthWest - Ilulissat is the edge of the north of Greenland, birthplace of Knud Rasmussen, home to thousands of working dogs and most importantly a World Heritage Site known for the volume and size of ice bergs coming off of the nearby glaciers and filling the bay.

East - Kulusuk and Amassalik (Tasiliik). Below the Circle. Never ice-free and because of that the only area that allows dogs (many, many) below the Arctic Circle. A one or two day trip from Iceland is easy to accomplish. We can send you to the village of Kulusuk on a day tour!

SouthWest - Narsarsuaq A somewhat shorter time (4 or 5 days) in Greenland's south.
Narsarsuaq in the south shows you; Viking history, and relics, back to 865 AD, the Ice Cap, glaciers, icebergs, Inuit ruins and isolated villages

Combined travel - Iceland and Greenland

Combined - East Greenland (3 Days) & Iceland (2 Days) Visits to Iceland's most popular natural wonders cobined with a stay in a primordial area of Greenland.

Combined - Iceland & South Greenland (1 Week) Viking relics,whales,Inuit life and history combine with glaciers and icebergs and access to the ice cap.

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Riga Station Road
Millerton, NY 12546
Toll Free 888 686-6784
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