Day 3 of the Unplugged Wilderness Trek saw us set out in the opposite direction, away from the Karale Glacier and up towards the Knud Rasmussen Glacier. Unlike Day 2 where it was relatively flat, this hike climbed ~850m up some pretty steep slopes for some spectacular views over the Karale Fjord. It was the […]
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These were the views that greeted me when I got up at 2am to go to the loo. Yes, occasionally it is a good thing to have to get up once/night! Unfortunately on this trip to Greenland, I never actually made it above the Arctic Circle (we were less than 100km away here), so the
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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
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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
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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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