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 […]
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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
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After 2 weeks of hiking in great weather in South Greenland, I arrived to cold, wet and wind in the capital, Nuuk. I was picked up at the airport by my Airbnb host, Rene, and taken to the accommodation. It was absolutely awesome – my own space with a separate entrance, fridge, microwave and bathroom, and only
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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
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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
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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),
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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
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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
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Leaving Igaliku turned out to be quite difficult, thanks to the bad weather that had kicked up the day before on my return from the Waterfall hike. There were 6 of us scheduled to leave, and although we hiked over the King’s Road to be at the dock at Itilleq at the appointed time, they ended up
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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
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