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. Level of difficulty: 1 family. Also, local guides offer tours round settlement Sermermiut. Duration: 4-5 The Eqi glacier calves right into the fjord 80 the village for DKK 150 pp. Duration: 5 hours Price: $ 75 incl. guide, sandwich and km north of Ilulissat and is one of the hours Price: $ 115 incl. coffee/tea coffee/tea Ilulissat (cont)
Cultural City Tour of Ilulissat Inland Ice Cap, the Ice Fjord and the many All year Level of difficulty: 1+ gigantic icebergs. The flight back is at low Ilulissat offers insight into Greenland old altitude which gives a close-up look at the and new. The town was , founded in 1741 floating icebergs. Duration: 2 hours, 15 min and boasts a fascinating history. You will see (54 min. flying time) Price: $ 415 incl. the fishermen in the harbor, and get a round transfer, guide and drink trip in this picturesque town. Duration: 2.5 hours Price: $ 35 incl. guide Oqaatsut – Voyage to a Greenland Village Helicopter to Ice Fjord &Inland Ice Cap May - Oct. Level of difficulty: 1 May 15 - September 2 Level of difficulty: 1 For hundreds of years, Oqaatsut (Rodebay) From Ilulissat Airport you’ll head to the was a stopover place for Dutch whalers, who protected area around the Ilulissat Ice Cap. dragged huge whales onto land in the old serves an excellent lunch in the old colonial Mountain tops and lakes in all colors appear village. The village, which lies in a beautiful building. You can combine a visit to together with gigantic icebergs. You’ll have a natural setting just 15 km north of Ilulissat, Oqaatsut with a hike to or from Ilulissat, 30 minute stop on the edge of the Ice Cap, has a mere 50 inhabitants, its own school, sailing the other leg. Duration: 5 where there is a magnificent view to the church, shop and a restaurant “H8”, which hours Price: $ 115 incl. coffee/tea
Day Tour Options in Sisimiut
Culture and history tour to Teleøen Picnic with a view Season: June - Oct. Level of difficulty: 3 June - Sept. Level of difficulty: 2 Despite Greenland’s enormous size, the warehouse, go though the gate to the old Enjoy a delightful picnic in the valley to the population has lived in the same few areas town, made from a whale jawbone, see the east of Sisimiut! Your guide will tell you throughout the ages. On Teleøen Island, museum in the old town with its gaily- about the local flora and fauna as you sit Sallinnguit, you find old and new as you see painted houses from the colonial period In back and admire Greenlands nature. Enjoy a traces of the various Inuit cultures who have the fascinating open fish and meat market picnic of local Greenland specialties with settled there over the past 4,000 years. See the ”brættet” your guide will tell you all about coffee brewed on the spot using water from ruins and admire the handsome views over local fishing traditions and the catch of the a nearby stream. Duration: 3 hours Price: $ the town and the ancient hunting grounds, day. Head for the fur workroom where you 50 incl. transfer, lunch, coffee/tea and guide and learn the history of the Inuit people can see sealskins being made into jackets, before Europeans arrived. Duration: 2 slippers and handbags, and watch musk wool Hike to Qiterlinnguaq hours Price: $ 35 incl. guide, refreshments spun Duration: 2 hours Price: $ 35 incl. Season: Jun. - Aug. Level of difficulty: 4 and transfer entrance and guide A beautiful hike in the valley east of Sisimiut, out to the vantage point Qiterlinnguaq Hike up Præstefjeldet City tour by bus from where you can see the mouth of June - Aug. Level of difficulty: 4 Season: All year Level of difficulty: 1 “Første fjord” and far into the land. On the This is a beautiful hike offering views over Same as above, but with a bus trip to the hike back there is a beautiful view of the the entire town and surrounding area. This city’s highest point from which there is a ocean and Sisimiut. Remember mosquito net south facing peak has plenty of vegetation beautiful view. Duration: 1½ hour Price: $ and spray. Duration: 6-7 hours Price: $ 80 featuring bushes, flowers and moss and 35 incl. guide incl. guide and lunch provides majestic views across the town and “Kangerluarsuk Tulleq/ Første fjord. Dinner with a Greenland family Kaffemik with a Greenland family Duration: 5-6 hours Price: $ 80 incl. guide, Year round Level of difficulty: 1 Season: All year Level of difficulty: 1 transfer and refreshments It is usually easier to chat over the dinner table Kaffemik is a tradition in Greenland. which is why you are hereby invited to enjoy a Literally meaning “please come to our house Guided City Walk in Sisimiut traditional Greenland meal, including the for coffee”, Kaffemik is more than just All year Level of difficulty: 1+ national dish “Suaasat”. This is a soup made afternoon coffee. You will be invited into a Get to know Sisimiut on a two-hour tour of from seal, whale, poultry or lamb with onion, Greenland home to d learn a bit about their the history, culture and modern everyday life rice and potatoes. Over dinner you can find way of life and to take part in a real Green- in town. Visit the craft workshops of the out all about family life in Greenland and any land experience - with coffee and Greenland old Royal Greenland Trading Company other questions you may like to ask. Dura- cakes or buns, after which you swap tales. tion: 2 hours Price: $ 50 incl. Duration: 1 hour Price: $ 35 incl. cake and coffee/tea. Sisimiut (cont’d )
Hike the dog sledge track Jun. - Sept. Level of difficulty: 4 Enjoy a peaceful boat trip to the fiord Kangerluarsuk Tulleq, experience the powers of the tides at the narrow passage then disembark to start the hike. First, fill your water bottle with fresh cool creek water, then the hike back to Sisimiut will begin! The first part is the toughest, but you’ll be rewarded with a beautiful view of the fiord system and the sea rat the top. Up there, too a strange sight awaits - a UFO shaped cabin! This is used by the dog sledges during winter and it makes a good spot to enjoy a picnic lunch Boat trip under the midnight sun and a little rest. Then it’s all hiking is down Visit the abandoned settlement Assaqutaq June - Sept. Level of difficulty: 1 hill to Sisimiut following the dog’s tracks of June - Sept. Level of difficulty: 1 A great chance to spot seals and whales! surrounded by a fantastic view of nature In the 60’s and 70’s many settlements in The boat takes you out of the harbor and around Sisimiut. Duration: 8-9 hours Price: $ Greenland were closed and people had to past the abandoned settlement, Assaqutaq, 235 incl. guide, boat trip, lunch and drinking move to the bigger cities to find jobs and to where if allowed by time and tide you bottle benefit from the modern facilities. Assaqutaq might go ashore and look which is on the south side of around.Duration: 3 hours Price: $ 95 incl. Catch your own dinner Kællingehætten is one of those settlements. transfer, coffee/tea June - Sept. Level of difficulty: 1 It is now used as a summer camp by the Food always tastes better outside, so what local schools and local people from Sisimiut Deep sea fishing about catching it yourself? Fish for the red come to the area to fish Ammassat, a small Jun. - Sept. Level of difficulty: 1 fish and cod in the area around Sisimiut, and fish used as dog food. You’ll have a pretty Experience the calm about deep sea fishing. every one will be shown how to clean their boat ride to the village and while there, take a It’s just you, a jig, the sea and the fish. Your catch! The delicious fresh fish will be the short hike passing the old fish factory, the captain will pick the best place for fishing centerpiece of a nice meal for everyone to summer camp and the beautiful old church. depending on the tides - all you have to do enjoy Duration: 4 hours Price: $130 incl. Duration: 2½ hours Price: $ 95 incl. is reel ‘em in. . Duration: 4 hours Price: $ fishing license and equipment, lunch transfer, coffee/tea 125 incl. transfer, coffee/tea
The Price for the West Greenland Explorer tour is $4000. per person in standard double room. Single travelers - $4450. per person The price includes all flights, in Economy Class with taxes, between: Baltimore – Kangerlussuaq – Ilulissat – Sisimiut - Kangerlussuaq – Baltimore, 2 nights at Hotel Kangerlussuaq in standard double room This tour runs every Monday from 3 nights at Hotel Arctic in standard double room June 11 to 13 August 2 nights at Hotel Sisimiut in standard double room Breakfast every day, welcome dinners at Hotel Kangerlussuaq and Hotel Arctic in Ilulissat Transfer to/from airport in Ilulissat to Hotel Arctic Transfer to/from airport to Hotel Sisimiut Guide service from Greenland Travel Information meetings in Kangerlussuaq, Sisimiut and Ilulissat The price does NOT include lunches or dinners other than two or any optional local excursions or tours.
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