Tour Northern Lights (From Copenhagen)

Accommodation

Qaleraliq Adventure Glacier Camp Qaleraliq Glacier camp is the place where to breathe and feel the Greenlandic untouched wilderness, there are no construction in the place, a totally clean and no impact camp, therefore basic but located in one of the most spectacular and beautiful spots of South Greenland. It has dining&breakfast Domo rooms with tables, chairs, gas cooker and kitchen utensils. Accommodation will be in Domo tents using sleeping bags. Shared toilets outside the tent bucket type. As the camp is set in the wild nature, there is no access to electric power at the camp. Do your best to bring your battery totally recharged. In case of needs, try to bring several batteries. At Qassiarsuk we will spend the night at the Leif Eriksson Hostel, located next to the notable, Viking marine monument. It is a cosy hostel, with a spacious terrace overlooking the fjord, different rooms, with shared toilets and showers. We will use sleeping bags at night. Overnight stays at the Leif Eriksson Hostel may be substituted by overnight stays at another local hostel. At Tasiusaq, you will enjoy your stay in a cosy hostel which is beautifully located in a farm inhabited by 7 people. Lodge in quadruple rooms, shared facilities. Toilet bucket type. Cosy common place and terrace with spectacular views. We will use sleeping bags at nights

Meals

The journey will finish with a special Inuit dinner that will include local products available: seal meat, whale meat, caribou meat, smoked halibut, dried anmmassat and cod… During the day trips we will follow a more practical diet: Breakfast: Coffee, tea, infusions, cocoa, powdered milk, biscuits, bread, jam, muesli and cereals. Packed lunch: Bread, cheese, ham, chocolate, nuts, biscuits, soup, hot tea… Dinner: Meals cooked at the camp will be prepared by the guide in collaboration with the group (Rice, pasta, mashed potatoes, sausages Dinner served at the hostels can be prepared with local fish and meat, pork, vegetables, eggs, rice...

Flights

Return flights from Copenhagen included

Guide

An English speaking guide from Tasermiut - SGE will be with you throughout the journey and you may also be accompanied by one or more additional guides for specific stages of the journey. The Guide’s job is to point the group in the right direction, to ensure all travellers’ safety and to solve any possible problems that may arise along the itinerary, making changes or adjustments if necessary. Collaboration is expected from travellers and all shared activities will be everybody’s responsibility, including the guide’s. Note that one or different guides can be in charge of the group during the adventure tour.

Transport

Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB boat) The navigation will be done in a RIB-boat a Rigid Inflatable Boat (Zodiac Type), The Adventure boat by definition. The RIB boat is an open boat fast flexible and very safe. A special coat is provided for navigation. The RIB Boat allows the traveller to feel the elements and be one with them. RIB boats enable to reach areas that are difficult to access on any other type of boats. This type of boats allows us to be more dynamic, versatile and to enjoy adventure, without compromising safety.

Others

-Flight Copenhagen – Narsarsuaq, return -Tasermiut, South Greenland Expeditions’ guide (English speaking) -Transfers in Greenland, as specified on this program -Meals on a full board basis -Accommodation in Greenland, as specified on this program -Camping and RIB boat travel equipment -Guided visit to Brattahlid reconstructions -Greenlandic farewell dinner

Not included:

Optional

Optional excursions should be confirmed upon arrival, in the information meeting of the first day. However, we recommend you confirm Optional Excursions in advance before arriving in Greenland. Kayak excursion in the “Icebergs Bay”: This is a 2 hour sea kayaking trip for beginners among icebergs and ice in one of the safest and best place in the whole of Greenland. Duration: 2 hours (approx.) Group: minimum 2pax Price: €85 per person

Others

Insurance

Not provided by Tasermiut All travelers are required to carry travel insurance that provides emergency medicalevacuation and repatriation.

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Day 1 Day 1: Viking Greenland
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Viking Greenland

Flight Copenhagen – Narsarsuaq

Reception in the airport and transfer in RIB boat through Tunulliarfik Fjord, usually covered by icebergs, to Qassiarsuk. Walk through the village of about 50 inhabitants, mostly farmers, comprising the old Brattahlid, capital of Viking Greenland, and where Eric the Red settled in 985 at the start of the colonisation of the barbarian peoples.

Cultural visit: Brattahlid reconstructions. Guided visit to the original ruins from Erik the Red, and a replica of the original chapel and longhouse. This Norse and Greenlandic core farming area were in 2017 inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List under the title Kujataa Greenland: A Norse and Inuit farming landscape on the Edge of the Ice Cap.

Qassiarsuk area represent the most comprehensive and rich example of both Norse and Greenlandic farming histories and contains ruins of large cattle-based Norse farms and their numerous satellite sites including, not least, Erik the Red’s Brattahlid. It was also here that Otto Frederiksen in 1924 established the first sheep farm after Igaliku, founding today’s settlement of Qassiarsuk.

Accommodation in Hostel

Accommodation in Hostel
Day 2 Day 2: Narsaq And Qaleraliq Glacier Camp
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Narsaq And Qaleraliq Glacier Camp

We will set off for Qaleraliq camp, navigating along Tunulliarfik fjord among numerous icebergs. We will stop at Narsaq to visit the third most populated town in South Greenland, with about 1500 inhabitants.

You will have free time to visit the local market, fur shops… and go for a walk or do some shopping, before boarding the boat again to navigate towards the Indlandis.

We will arrive to a cosy, enchanting camp set on a sandy beach, which contrasts with a spectacular view of three glacier fronts from Qaleraliq’s glacier. We will spend the night at the camp, allowing our senses to enjoy the unbelievable views and the thunderclap roar of the icefall from seracs.

Accommodation in fix tents
Day 3 Day 3: Ice Cap View
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Ice Cap View

Ascent to the base of Tasersuatsiaq great lake and panoramic view of the Inlandis. Ascent by foot through a unique desert-like sand valley which will lead us to a surprisingly different landscape, that of the green and thick tundra. After passing the lake, we will climb up a mountain 400 metres high, from which we will have a mesmerising view of the lake, one of the largest in Southern Greenland.

The summit is also a very special viewing point of the Indlandis, the immense inland glacier. From there you can gaze upon the infinite ice sheet up to the north coast of the island and towards the Arctic Ocean, and see the Nunataks, floating landmarks on the ice sheet.

We may pick mushrooms and blueberries, and look for caribou, which are plentiful in the area.

Accommodation in fix tents
Day 4 Day 4: Glacier Fronts And Excursion On Ice
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Glacier Fronts And Excursion On Ice

We will navigate along the glacier fronts on a RIB boat, admiring the beauty of their vertical ice walls and numerous icebergs as we approach them along their more than 10 kilometres descent to the sea.

These glacier fronts extended in only one. But the dramatic progress of climate change divided it in three glacier fronts.

From there we will start the ice excursion. An impressive trek using crampons (organised to be suitable for all travellers) on one of the oldest masses of ice in the planet. We will explore its crevasses, drains, seracs, and other ice formations, which give an incredible, labyrinthine quality to this glacier.

An expert mountain guide will be in charge to make sure we are provided with the appropriate equipment, and to ensure the safety of the group during the trip, while he shares with us his knowledge about the special characteristics of the glaciers in the South of Greenland.

A unique experience, exciting and original, surprising both first-time comers and those used to the peculiarities of the glacier world. One of the most impressive sights and one of the best excursions in all Greenland.

Accommodation in fix tents
Day 5 Day 5: Igaliku And Qooroq Ice Fjord
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Igaliku And Qooroq Ice Fjord

Navigation from Qaleraliq to Itilleq via the Tunulliarfik fjord.

Easy hike to cross the Kongevejen, or Path of the Kings, to the idyllic Igaliku, a small Inuit settlement inhabited by not quite 40 people, which is famous for being the most beautiful settlement in the whole Greenland, and where one finds: the ruins of Gardar, the archdiocese and religious capital of Viking Greenland, the Norse bishop’s farm – the largest in all of Greenland- and the setting of Anders Olsen’s farm, the unique architecture of the Igaliku stone houses. The area is recently declared part of the Unesco World Heritage List.

After eating in Igaliku, return in the afternoon to Itilleq, and then to Qassiarsuk.

On our way to Qassiarsuk, we will visit the Qooroq Fjord, where one of the most active glaciers in southern Greenland can be found, navigating to the area where iceberg density will make it impossible to carry on, and which is without doubt one of Greenland’s best images.

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Day 6 Day 6: Tasiusaq, The “Iceberg’S Bay”
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Tasiusaq, The “Iceberg’S Bay”

Walk to Tasiusaq farm, where seven people live in notable isolation next to Sermilik fjord, which is almost always blocked by the ice and icebergs coming from Eqaloruutsit glacier. This is not the only sheep farm of the area. We will continue our walk to Nunataaq Farm. It was a Viking Settlement where we can discover some ruins. We will make a visit of the area, and go on excursions with impressive views of Tasiusaq Bay and the numerous icebergs covering it! We will discover lakes hidden in the tundra. Way back to Tasiusaq Farm.

Later we can go fishing arctic salmon or for a walk in the region.

Optional: Kayak excursion in the “Iceberg Bay”. A 2 hour sea kayaking trip for beginners among icebergs and ice in one of the safest and best place in the whole Greenland.

Accommodation in Tasiusaq or Qassiarsuk Hostel
Day 7 Day 7: Flower Valley And Glacier
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Flower Valley And Glacier

We will cross to Narsarsuaq on our zodiac boat. Then, we will walk through Flower Valley

enjoying the spectacular view of a valley formed due to the retreat and the consequent glacial sedimentation with plenty of flowers.

We will walk until we can see Kiattut glacier and the landscape around it, with superb panoramic view of the ice sheet and its Nunataks. This is probably the most renowned excursion in all Greenland. Farewell dinner, with typical local Inuit products.

Accommodation in Hostel
Day 8 Day 8: Copenhagen
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Copenhagen

Transfer to Narsarsuaq.

Depending on your flight time, you may have time to walk around in the area and visit the local museum Bluie West that reflects the history of the creation of the village of Narsarsuaq from the past and especially its role played in the Second World War, or you can ascend to the "View Point", an easy hike of approximately one hour, starting near the Hotel, from where you will have views of the fjord, the Narsarsuaq plain and the Kiattut glacier.

Flight Narsarsuaq – Copenhagen

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Northern Lights (From Copenhagen)

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Itinerary of your trip Northern Lights (From Copenhagen)

Day 1: Viking Greenland

Day 2: Narsaq And Qaleraliq Glacier Camp

Day 3: Ice Cap View

Day 4: Glacier Fronts And Excursion On Ice

Day 5: Igaliku And Qooroq Ice Fjord

Day 6: Tasiusaq, The “Iceberg’S Bay”

Day 7: Flower Valley And Glacier

Day 8: Copenhagen

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