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Kangerlussuaq,Kangerlussuaq, Ilulissat,Ilulissat, SisimiutSisimiut Western Greenland Explorer Visit three classical Greenlandic areas in one journey. The practi- cal matters are taken care of for you and great local guides in Greenland help you make the most of your trip. There’s lots of optional excursions available - but you are completely in charge of how many Greenlandic experiences you wish to treat yourself to. The polar summer is brief and lively and encourages physical adventure as well as pure relaxation. There’s room for everything on this 8-day active holiday to three very different places. 8 days/7 nights A great combination of places for the Arctic fan. ..and the best possible introduction to Greenland’s Arctic for everyone else Day 1 – Monday Depart from Baltimore (BWI) on Air then join a walk through the town of optional excursions or you can just head for Greenland at 10 AM and arrive in Kanger- Ilulissat after lunch. Enjoy the fine restaurant the mountains with rivers and lakes, fish, bird lussuaq five hours later. The Hotel Kanger- at the Hotel Arctic for a welcome dinner this life and millions of flowers. The town itself lussuaq is in the same building as the airport, evening. is very interesting as you’ll discover in an so it’s easy to check in, and then enjoy afternoon walk - when you can experience information meeting and welcome dinner. Day 4 – Thursday how beautifully a town can be nestled within You’ll be just kilometers north of the Polar Day 5 – Friday nature. Circle and only about 15 miles away from the After breakfast at the Hotel, enjoy Ilulissat gigantic ice cap that blankets Greenland. your own way- either with a choice of guided Day 7 - Sunday excursions, or explore on your own. After breakfast at the Hotel, you’ll have your Day 2 - Tuesday choice of guided excursions, or explore After Breakfast at the Hotel Kangerlussuaq, Day 6 - Saturday Sisimiut on your own. you can take optional excursions (see below) After breakfast and check out, you’ll fly from Day 8 - Monday Day 3 – Wednesday Ilulissat to Sisimiut, then be taken to the Hotel Sisimiut. After check in, you’ll have an After breakfast at the Hotel Sisimiut, you’ll be After breakfast and check out, you’ll fly to introductory meeting with your guides who transferred to the airport to fly back Ilulissat, where you’ll be taken to the Hotel will tell you about Sisimiut, the second largest Kangerlussuaq and then onwards to Arctic. Check in, and have an information town in Greenland. There are a multitude of Baltimore. meeting to explain your local options, and Day Tour Options in Kangerlussuaq Car excursion to the icecap Car Excursion to the Icecap, Musk Ox Safari February - October - min 3 participants. Point 660 Year round with 3 participants. year round Monday to Friday It’s a very scenic one hour drive – about 25 The trip offers ample opportunity to watch km, to the edge of the Russell Glacier. Take specially outfitted 4WDs drives for some of the 4000 musk oxen who live During the journey there are plenty of about 40 kilometers to and onto the icecap around Kangerlussuaq. With luck you may opportunities of seeing reindeer, arctic foxes through a scenic and breathtaking landscape. also catch sight of reindeer, hares and arctic and birds. Once there you’ll have some time Experience the enormous ice desert with the foxes. Length: 1½ hour Price: $ 35 Children to scramble around the vast icy fields – take opportunity to walk on the Ice Cap. Length: under 12: $ 25 your camera! Length: 4 hours 4 hours. Price: $80. Children under 12: $50 Price: $80, Children under 12: $ 50 Iceland Adventure, LLC 888 686-6784 www.icelandadventure.com Kangerlussuaq (cont.) Sight-seeing by car/bus Garnet rock Barbeque trip to the icecap All year min. 4 passengers May - September -min. 6 participants May - October Min. 6 participants This sightseeing trip includes a visit to the You’ll start towards Garnet Rock by going harbor, the area round Kelly Ville, a tour of to the top of Tacan, and then down the hill Experience an untraditional, partly off-road, the former American Base “Bluie West 8”, past “The Big Salt lake” and to the Garnet drive to the ice cap. You’ll have about 2 and a visit to see sled dogs. Your guide will Rock. Here, you can find blocks of stone rich hours at the ice, to admire the ice with its tell you about the history of Kangerlussuaq in red garnets, which can easily be chipped many colors and sounds, and then enjoy a and the base during the tour. You might see away by using a hammer and chisel. Includes barbecued lunch, with Greenlandic food mountain hares and arctic foxes during the a picnic lunch, coffee and tea. Length: prepared by the guide. Length: 5 hours Price trip, and in the summer perhaps spot approx. 8 hours, incl. 2 hours at the Garnet $110 Children under 12 $ 60 peregrine falcons, gyrfalcons and eagles along Rock. Price incl. lunch: $ 90 Children under the route. Length: 2 hours Price: $65 12: $ 50 Please book at least one day in Children under 12: $ 30 advance. Day Tour Options in Ilulissat most beautiful places in Greenland. Sail to Walk under the Midnight Sun - a trip to Eqi with a modern and comfortable tourist Ice Fjord Voyage the Settlement at the Ice Fjord boat. The boat will get you close to the All year -( if circumstances allow) Level of June - Aug. Level of difficulty: 2 edge of the glacier so you can see the calving difficulty: 1 The Midnight Sun lasts from May 24 to July process. The sound of the active glacier is Every day approximately 20 million tons of 24. and it’s a wonderful experience to take a quite remarkable while the sight of icebergs ice flow out into Ice Fjord from the Ilulissat walk in it This tour covers the same ground toppling into the water is breathtaking. A Glacier, w hich is transformed into huge as the Sermermiut day tour, but under the good lunch and other refreshments are icebergs stretching up to 100 meters above Midnight Sun! Your guide will tell about the served. Duration: 8-10 hours Price: $ 270 the water, and many have grounded on the ancient settlement of Sermermiut as you incl. lunch, coffee/tea and a soft drink floor of the fjord.. This trip sails among wander past it. Then continue past The Old these icebergs. An incredible experience that Ladies’ Gorge and the ancient Inuit graves, Evening Trip to Ice Fjord you should not miss when visiting Ilulissat. which is followed by a snack at Holm’s Hill. Bring warm clothing. Duration: 2½ Then proceed along the stunning Ice Fjord, May 24 - July 30 Level of difficulty: 1 hours Price: $ 75 incl. coffee/tea while your guide talks about Greenland’s The light of the Midnight Sun casts a unique flora, fauna, geology and the huge volumes glow on the icebergs, which draws people Hike to the Old Settlement of of ice in the area. The final part of the tour back again and again. This walk goes very Sermermiut takes you through Qoororsuaq Gorge. close to the icebergs, whose sheer magnitude Year round Level of difficulty: 2 Duration: 2.5 hours Price: $ 40 incl. guide can appear quite daunting. The midnight trip Different Inuit cultures have lived near and coffee/tea is an experience like no other. Remember to Ilulissat over the past 4,000 years, leaving bring warm clothing and a camera! Dura- much behind. You’ll earn about local history Walk to Observation Points on tion: 2½ hours Price: $ 85 incl. coffee/tea and customs from the time before the Qaqqarsuattat Europeans arrived and visit spots settled for Season: June - Sept. Level of difficulty: 4 Ilimanaq – Voyage to a Greenland Village thousands of years. You can also admire the You start by walking to Holm’s Hill, where May - Oct. Level of difficulty: 1 views across the rows of icebergs. Dura- the towns people assemble on January 13 Barely a generation ago, most of the tion: 2.5 hours Price: $ 35 incl. guide and each year to welcome back the sun. Then Greenland population lived in tiny villages, coffee/tea continue along the Ice Fjord with its huge dotted along the coast like a string of pearls, icebergs, where a stop is made for lunch. but today most people live in towns. A Hike along the Ice Fjord Climb to the summit, 319 meters above sea Ilulissat still has four thriving villages. One June - Sept, level of difficulty 3 level, while your guide talks about of these is Ilimanaq (Claushavn), which is Every day, all year round, approximately 20 Greenland’s flora, fauna, geology and the south of the Ice Fjord and has many million tons of ice flow out into Ice Fjord huge volumes of ice in the area. Duration: 7- beautiful old colonial buildings and is from the Ilulissat Glacier. This ice is trans- 8 hours Price: $ 90 incl. guide, lunch and famous for its excellent trout, caught in the formed into huge icebergs that stretch up to coffee/tea Tasiusaq Fjord beyond the village. After an 100 meters above the water, and some strand interesting boat ride to the village, you can at the mouth of Ice Fjord on an underwater Eqi – Voyage to the Calving Glacier get a meal for a reasonable price with a local moraine. The hike will also pass the old June 15 - Sept.
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