To holiday in Greenland is to holiday on the edge of a giant ice cap (over 80% of the world's biggest island is covered in ice) with a fertile coastal fringe indented with glacial valleys and fjords, many of which in summer have calving glacier tongues at their edge with bergs drifting leisurely out to sea. Above all Greenland is awesome grandeur: eerily quiet with a tiny population still a long way from the 21st century in both mind and spirit.
Greenland's fleeting summer brings migratory birds and a plethora of flora and fauna: bluebells, broad leaf fireweed, mountain crowberry, herbs, mosses and heather. Wildlife is prolific with white tailed Eagles, Polar Bears, Reindeer, Fin and Humpback Whales, Harp Seals, Musk Oxen and Blue & White Arctic Foxes.
For those interested in the complexity of climate change Greenland is one giant resource centre: researchers have drilled down over 3 kilometres to extract a core providing a 100,000 year old climate change record; in 2007 a new island 'Warming Island' was revealed as the ice sheet retreated and Greenland's ice sheet stores 10% of the world's fresh water.
South Greenland is the tip of the country and synonymous with the name Greenland: pastoral landscapes peppered with villages and working sheep farms set against a backdrop of majestic mountains. The Ice Cap is just a few kilometres from Narsarsuaq and it is here that you will find the remnants of the Norse Age including a meticulous reconstruction of Erik the Red’s farm.
June – August ~ Monday Departures
Giant icebergs, calving glaciers, baying sled dogs and magnificent wild life, including seals musk oxen and eagles, make Greenland quite unique. Get up close and personal with reindeer and the arctic fox; walk up on the inland Ice Cap and fly up across the Arctic Circle to Disko Bay to see the glaciers continuously dropping ice chunks into the turquoise blue water with a thunderous clap.
June – August ~ Monday Departures
Kangerlussuaq, set at the head of a deep fjord on Greenland’s west coast, is your base for some of the most extraordinary adventures in the world. Get up close and personal with Wild Musk Oxen; drive up on top of the Greenland inland icecap; husky sledge in the time honoured manner of the Innuit or snowmobile in the style of their contemporary descendents. Marvel at the awe inspiring scenery and watch out for one of nature’s most extraordinary phenomena, the Northern Lights.
January - March ~ Sunday, Wednesday & Thursday Departures
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