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Round
trip and hiking 11 days |
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| This
package is a cocktail with all the highlights from South Greenland.
It includes amazing nature, boat trips on spectacular fjords,
visits to historical sites and modern towns and settlements.
You stay at an isolated sheep farm in an overwhelming nature.
Here, you enjoy the hospitality of a Greenlandic family and
delicious meals made by their own products. We take you to the
thriving town Qaqortoq (Julianehåb), which is the cultural
and educational centre of South Greenland. Furthermore, you
spend 3 nights in Igaliku - the most beautiful village in Greenland
- with some of the best hiking opportunities in the area. |
Arrivals/departures
From Monday to Thursday from Reykjavik.
From Wednesday to Saturday from Copenhagen.
Accommodation
Accommodation is in double room with made up bed and shared
facilities. Breakfast included.
Eating
In Qassiarsuk dinner can be ordered locally. At Inneruulalik
Farm the dinner is included. In Qaqortoq there are several
places to eat. In Igaliku you can have
dinner at the Country Hotel, and in Narsarsuaq there
is a restaurant and cafeteria at the hotel. There
are grocery stores in Narsarsuaq, Qassiarsuk and Igaliku and
super-markets in Qaqortoq.
Difficulty
The hikes between the places of accommodation are easy, and
follow gravel roads. The longest is about 9 km, and your lugage
is transported by car. There are many days on this trip which
include optional hikes. Most of these are quite easy, following
roads or tracks. However, there occur ascents and descents
and parts in terrain with no tracks.
Guide
The package is self-guided and made for individuals.
There will be an info meeting when arriving in Narsarsuaq
and Blue Ice can be contacted from all the places of accommodation.
Hiking maps are for sell at Blue Ice Café in Narsarsuaq.
Itinerary
Day 1
Arrival Narsarsuaq. Info at our office at Blue Ice Café,
and boat transfer to Qassiarsuk. Qassiarsuk is also known
as Brattahlid, the place where Erik the Red settled in year
982. The ruins from the Norse period are well preserved. Today,
the 50 residents are mainly sheep farmers, but the village
also has a school, a church and a shop.
Accommodation in private house for two nights.
Day 2
You can make a day hike to the sheep farm Tasiusaq located
at the Sermilik fjord. It is a relative easy hike by a tractor
road through an impressive landscape spotted with small, blue
lakes. There are good chances to see the White-tailed Eagle
hover above your head. From Tasiusaq you can take the sheep
track leading to the neighbour farm Nunataaq. It is a stunning
hike along the innermost part of a fjord, which is often filled
with small ice bergs. From Nunataaq you can take another tractor
road leading back to Qassiarsuk. The round trip is about 20
km in total.
Day 3
In the morning there will be a guided visit at Brattahlid,
the Norse reconstructions of Erik the Red's
farm and Tjodhilde's Church. Next, you make the day hike to
the sheep farm Inneruulalik, located south of Qassiarsuk just
in front of the ice fjord. The hike is on a tractor
road (about 9 km) and your luggage will be transported by
car. Inneruulalik is a perfect idyll combined with overwhelming
nature and added hospitality from a Greenlandic family. Staying
one night at the farm gives you an experience which you will
never forget.
Accommodation at Inneruulalik farm. Dinner made of local products
is included.
Day 4
You spend the morning around the farm. In the afternoon a
boat will pick you up, and bring you to Qaqortoq. The biggest
town in South Greenland.
Accommodation at Bed & Breakfast for 2 nights.
Day 5
Qaqortoq, which means "The White", is the biggest
town in South Greenland with 3500 inhabitants. Qaqortoq is
the education centre for South Greenland with grammar school,
school of commerce and folk high school. Furthermore, the
town has several fair-sized companies such as Great Greenland
with tannery and sewing facilities for creating beautiful
sealskin clothes. Around the town, the visitor will meat sculptures
being a part of the famous project "Stone & People",
where different sculptors have made the town a big sculpture
park. Greenland's oldest fountain is situated at the town
square next to the harbour. Here you can sit and watch the
hunters and anglers arriving with today's catch for the market.
Day 6
Departure by boat to Hvalsø Church Ruin. Here we make
a one-hour stop (no guide), and you can walk around these
amazing ruins from the Norse period. Hvalsø Church
is the latest evidence of Norse activities, as there is a
written description of a weeding hold in the church in September
1408! The boat continues to the village Igaliku. Igaliku was
the Episcopal seat during the Norse period, and old ruins
are scattered everywhere. Today the town thrives from sheep
farming on the luscious grassland that reaches down to the
deep blue fjord.
Accommodation at Igaliku Country Hotel for three nights.
Day 7
You can make the day hike along the river to Lake 90, and
further on up to the plateau. From here, there is a superb
view of the Qooroq Ice fjord, the stranded icebergs on the
moraine and the enormous glacier in the bottom of the fjord.
You can be lucky to find minerals and stones on the way, for
instance the shining "moon stone" (Labradorit).
Day 8
You can make another amazing hike south of Igaliku towards
the waterfalls; a long series of waterfalls which falls from
the lakes of the Igaliku Peninsula and down towards Tunulliarfik
Fjord. Both hikes are well described at the information at
Igaliku Café.
You can also go fishing at lake 90 (fishing gear can be rented
at Igaliku Café) and catch beautiful arctic char and
trout. You can visit the ruins of the Episcopal seat and the
cathedral from the Norse period. They are very well preserved
and situated in the middle of the village. Finally, it is
possible to go to "kaffemik". A local family invites
you to a cup of coffee or tea and home-made cake in their
home, and you get a talk about living in a South Greenlandic
village (not included).
Day 9
You walk the 3 km at the "Kings Road"
(named after the Danish King Frederik 9th's visit in 1952)
from Igaliku to Itilleq. Your luggage is transported by car.
On the boat transfer from Itilleq to Narsarsuaq we sail slowly
by the Qooroq Moraine. This is where the biggest icebergs
are stocked on the ground, and it is amazing scenery to sail
through. The Americans established Narsarsuaq as an air base
during World War II. Today it is a thriving town and airport
with 150 inhabitants.
Accommodation in Narsarsuaq (shared facilities) for two nights.
Day 10
You can make the day hike to Narsarsuaq Glacier a part of
the ice cap only 8 km from Narsarsuaq. The hike goes through
the Flower Valley before a 300 m. ascend to a plateau gives
you a magnificent view over the glacier. From there, follows
½ hour walk down to touch the ice! The hike goes the
same way back.
Day 11
You can spend the last time at the museum in Narsarsuaq and
at Blue Ice Café.
Departure to Reykjavik or Copenhagen (check
in one hour before)
Price includes
Accommodation in double room with shared facilities:
2 nights in Qassiarsuk
1 night at Inneruulalik Sheep Farm
2 nights at B&B in Qaqortoq
3 nights at Igaliku Country Hotel
2 nights in Narsarsuaq
Breakfast
Dinner at Inneruulalik Farm (Day 3)
Transport of luggage
Boat transfer: Narsarsuaq – Qassiarsuk
Inneruulalik – Qaqortoq
Qaqortoq – Hvalsø – Igaliku
Itilleq – Qooroq Moraine – Narsarsuaq
Entrance and guide at Brattahlid (Norse reconstructions)
Prices
EUR 917 / DKK 6.650 per person. Minimum 2 persons.
Booking
Book here
Payment by bank transfer |
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