16 Night Greenland and Canadian Arctic Expedition cruise in August 2023 onboard the Silversea ship Silver Clound roundtrip from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland We also had pre and post cruise nights in New York city. On the cruise, we visited:
Destinations/Ports Series: 2023 Greenland and Canadian Arctic Expedition Because our charter flight wasn’t until the evening, but the ship needed to be prepped for the next folks boarding the cruise, we were provided with a tour in Kangerlussuaq that took us on a rough dirt road, in a 4 wheel drive tour vehicle to the…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2023 Greenland and Canadian Arctic Expedition The Ilulissat Ice Fjord, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the most amazing thing we saw on this trip, The Sermeq Glacier, hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, feeds billions of tons of ice into this fjord every year. The giant bergs float down the…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2023 Greenland and Canadian Arctic Expedition Tucked into a little corner of Disko Island, Qeqertarsuaq is a little village that was founded as a whaling station back in 1773. All around the town we saw colorful buildings, Greenlandic Dogs, and grounded icebergs. This town also had a really good museums, but they asked…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2023 Greenland and Canadian Arctic Expedition Did you know that Santa makes his summer home in Uummannaq, Greenland? That is what the children of Greenland have been told since the move production company built a turf house in the hills, and since then it has been known as Santa’s Castle. Some of the…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2023 Greenland and Canadian Arctic Expedition Our visit to Upernavik on this day was not pre-planned. The ship crossed Baffin Bay early in order to avoid rough seas, so we arrived here without much prior notification. The ship had tried to contact the man with the keys to the museum, but he must…
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