Although it was the last thing that I did during my 5 weeks in Greenland, hiking the 12-day Unplugged Wilderness Trek with Greenland Adventures was the first thing I had decided upon for my visit. This was inspired by the two previous long-distance treks I’d done – the 8-day Torres del Paine Circuit in…
Day 3 in Tasiilaq also started out completely foggy, so I headed out with two other girls – Lucia, a photographer staying in Tasiilaq for a month to photograph the area, and Nicole – to see the hide of a polar bear that had been shot about 2 weeks ago near town. It wasn’t as…
My original plan was to catch boat transfers between Kulusuk and Tasiilaq – and that’s what I’d booked in advance. However, a few days before my arrival in East Greenland, the company I was arranging things through suggested that it might be safer to book the helicopter transfer, given the large amount of pack ice…
My Air Greenland flight from Nuuk to Kulusuk was delayed by 3 hours due to terrible weather once again in the capital. I love how on these internal Greenland flights there is no allocated seating 🙂 We eventually took off, and I headed to my third destination on this enormous island – East Greenland. I…
The weather in Greenland can be a little like the weather in Melbourne. In other words, quite unpredictable. When I set out on the Narsarsuaq Glacier hike (green trail in the map below) at 8:30am, it was very overcast and starting to spit with rain. By the time I was ready for the return journey…
My transfer from Qassiarsuk to Narsarsuaq didn’t leave until 2pm, which meant that I didn’t really have time to do much of a hike at either place, despite the glorious weather! Fortunately, the Ridge Hike (yellow in the map below) from Narsarsuaq is a relatively short route up to a view of the Narsarsuaq Glacier (Kiattuut Sermiat),…
I wasn’t greeted with the best weather I’ve had in South Greenland today, but decided to head out to do the Qassiarsuk – Qorlortup Itinnera – Tasiusaq – Qassiarsuk loop hike (yellow, followed by upper red in the below). I had to pass all the way through Qassiarsuk to reach the start of the hike, and that included…
Another beautiful day in South Greenland 😊 So much so – it was very, very hard for me to leave my perch on the front deck of the Sillisit Hostel for the hike over to Qassiarsuk! The most common way to hike between the two places is via the dirt road that basically follows the fjord (solid…
The other main day-hike from Igaliku, is the Waterfall Hike (marked in yellow on the map below), which heads off in the opposite direction to the Lakes and Plateau Hike I did yesterday. I have to admit, I was less excited by this one, because after almost a year and a half of travel, it has…
When I arrived at the Gardar Hostel in Igaliku, one of the first things I did was consult the map of hikes in the area. All of the hostels run by Blue Ice Explorer have the appropriate map displayed prominently in the common area, with brief descriptions of the routes alongside. Seriously, the…