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Cruise to South Greenland, Viking Trails

A voyage to the South of Greenland, following the Viking trails, spot White-tailed Eagles, bathe in a hot spring surrounded by icebergs, visit the famous medieval Norse Cathedral and see where Viking Eric Red lived. In Nordre Sermilik (Isafjord) we are surrounded by mountains of over 1000 m. We make a landing on Eqaluit qeqertat and old Thule settlement, and push, as far as the ice-bergs will allow us, to the glacier front of Eqalorutsit Kangidlit Sermiat

Itinerary

We arrive at Narsarsuaq by chartered plane from Keflavik and board the ship.

Highlights:

Narsarsuaq

In Nordre Sermilik (Isafjord) we are surrounded by mountains of over 1000 m. We make a landing on Eqaluit qeqertat and an old Thule settlement, and push as far as the ice-bergs will allow us, to the glacier front of Eqalorutsit Kangidlit Sermiat. Other landings will be possible.

Highlights:

• Nordre Sermilik

• Eqalorutsit Kangidlit Sermiat

• Eqaluit qeqertat

We sail to the beautiful glacier fronts of Qaleralik Sermia

Today in Bredefjord at Qoornooq, we land in an area with beautiful remains of houses from the Thule culture. Later we sail to the beautiful glacier fronts of Qaleralik Sermia, where we will have some zodiac excursions and make some landings near the glacier. It is a good area for White-tailed Eagles.

Highlights:

• White-tailed Eagle

• Qoornooq

• Glacier fronts of Qaleralik Sermia

We reach Lichtenau a lovely but nearly deserted Greenlandic village, where the Herrnhuters had a mission in the 18th Century, and where some of their large buildings still remain. We will try to get to Uunartoq, where we can bathe in a large hot spring surrounded by icebergs. Across at Vagar we find the remains of a Viking homestead.

Highlights:

• Viking Trails

• Herrnhuters mission post

• Bathe in a large hot spring

We visit the site where the Vikings arrived from Iceland in Greenland

Herjolfsnes (Ikigait) was the first landfall site for the Vikings when they arrived from Iceland in Greenland. Across is the small settlement of Fredriksdal, where the Moravians had an important mission post.

Highlights:

• Herjolfsnes

• Settlement of Fredriksdal

• Moravians mission pos

At Hvalsey we visit the famous medieval Norse Cathedral, the largest Norse building in Greenland.

Highlights:

• Shore based walking

• Viking Cathedral of Hvalsey

In Eriksfjord we visit the Viking sites of Gardar (a walk of 3 km from the landing site at Itilleq in the neck of the Peninsula) and Brattahlíð, where Erik the Red lived about a thousand years ago. In the evening we arrive at the port of Narsarssuaq.

Highlights:

• Viking site of Gardar

• Erik the Red

• Brattahlíð

Our final morning. We will disembark the ship in the morning in Narsarsuaq

From Narsarsuaq we fly by chartered plane to Keflavik.

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