In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a mad, keen hiker 😉 And in the last year I’ve discovered the winter equivalent – snowshoeing!
Read more about a relatively short snowshoeing trip I did in February with Hotel Sisimiut and Tours in my Snowshoing in Sisimiut blog post at Guide to Greenland.
For more information about Sisimiut- check out the Ultimate Travel Guide to Sisimiut that I wrote for Guide to Greenland.
The Viñales valley (you guessed it – yet another UNESCO location) is about 2 hours away from La Habana, really chilled out and really beautiful. It is one of the biggest tobacco growing areas in Cuba where traditional cultivation techniques still dominate, and is renowned for its mogotes – dome-like limestone outcrops that rise abruptly…
This year, I started teaching English at KTI Technical College in Sisimiut. For my fellow Aussies – think of a TAFE/Vocational Education school. One of the highlights so far has been a small exhibition of student art that has graced the foyer of the school (alongside Greenland’s largest mineral collection) for the past few months….
My final excursion in South Greenland was a boat trip out to the Qooroq Ice Fjord to see the calving glacier. Unfortunately, I was the only one going on this particular day, so it was a small, fast boat out, and a rather solitary experience 🙁 On the way across to the glacier, however, we…
It was quite difficult to tell how many days I should allocate to exploring the area around Kangerlussuaq before starting the Arctic Circle Trail trek. There seemed to be a fair few options for things to do – the Russell Glacier, visiting the Greenland Ice Sheet at Point 660, Sugarloaf Mountain, Garnet Rock, a wildlife…
In my last post, I talked about drying fish (Arctic Char) as a way to preserve your latest catch if your freezer is already full of musk-ox, reindeer, and frozen vegetables. Dried fish is extremely popular in Nordic countries and Greenlanders have a long history of drying their catches in this traditional manner. As an…
Day 5 Out in the kayaks early today for a paddle to explore the southern end of the Comau Fjord. Glassy water, no wind, easy paddling – now THIS is what I was expecting! THIS is what all those kayaking videos spruik – paddling lazily along taking your time and poking your nose…