Jim Schroder's Travel

Home
Trips

Select Page

Greenland

Our tour director, Beggi, brought in for us, the first evening, a local that is well versed in the traditions of the locals. It was very interesting.

We learned about Greenland's history and culture.

View from the hotel was spectacular looking across the bay with the snow on the mountains, the Ice Bergs floating in the harbor with the homes of locals just in front of us. It is the first time we have seen blue sky and sun since arriving in Greenland.

The sun does not shine a lot here. Ten months of the year everything is covered with snow. The air is very cool in summer.

It is welcoming to see the clean blue sky throughout the area. We are very fortunate to experience this weather.

The Ammassalik area with Tasiilaq and the surrounding settlements is rather isolated, and contact with the outside world is of relatively recent date.

This is an aerial view of Tasiilaq, a photo in the hotel lobby, with the red circle indicating where the hotel is located.

My room looking out to the homes below, the harbor and the mountains in the distance.

View of day light at 11 p.m. in the evening.

Every time I walked by this work shop the name made me a laugh.

And the owner.

Walking inside the local market. The shelves are stocked now because it is summer. The harbor is open for delivery of supplies from ocean traffic to offload for the 10 winter months that nothing can be brought in.

Ammassalik Museum is a small local museum consisting of a cultural history museum housed in the old church of the city. Below the church, in a basement, is the Photo Museum, where art and modern exhibitions are exhibited, There is also access to a smaller library with the museum's book collection. In addition to the two main buildings, the museum has the Chapel and the Turf house. The turf house is open to visitors, who can get an insight into the standard of living 140 years ago.

After breakfast this morning, we walked to the pier for a boat tour with breath taking views of the Apusiajik Glacier. Notice at the top of the hill is our hotel.

While cruising the harbor this morning with bright sun light we circled around many icebergs. The ice looked luminescent almost.

We saw only an occasional boat out on the water.

The massive junks of glacier that have broken lose from the main glacier and are now floating aimlessly in the water.

[Show slideshow]

◄ 1 2 3 4 ... 8 ►

© 2025 Jim Schroder