An early breakfast, followed by a quick check out and then a drive to the heliport where the Air Greenland Bell 212 awaited.
I felt ready to leave Tasiilaq, while an amazing place with great potential, the dirtiness of the place still burns in the back of my mind keeping me from being totally sold on the place.
Would still love to go back, but it is a place where getting the streets cleaned up would help tremendously.
The flight to Kulusuk, was with a light high altitude cloud cover, providing us with a perfect sight to the small glaciers and dagger like peaks, a very beautiful flight.
Arriving at Kulusuk we were greeted by a gorgeous biplane that was on it’s way from somewhere to somewhere else. What a beautiful Aircraft.
We did not have a very long wait in Kulusuk and an hour later the AirIceland Aircraft took off heading towards our destination - Nerlerit Inaat.
A stunning flight with a birds eye view to a multitude of high peaks and huge glaciers, one scenery more stunning than the other in an endless row for two hours. It simply was a magnificent flight and we were blessed with clear skies and the only bump was when hitting the dirt runway in Nerlerit Inaat.
The flight in towards Nerlerit Inaat was another out of this world beautiful experience, to see a landscape so barren and so carved by ice was extraordinary, especially with the birds eye view the aircraft allowed.
When the flight came to a holt at the apron, we were told to walk directly to the Air Greenland Bell 222 for our flight to Ittoqqortoormiit. A flight that was perhaps even more amazing than the first. Save for my flights around Kangia near Ilulissat then this is perhaps the most beautiful helicopter flight ever.

We turned down the offer for a ride and walked our way to the guesthouse.
The walk sat us back in awe, this settlement is what I can without a doubt call the most impressive settlement I have seen.
A view unlike anything I have ever seen. The mouth of the fiord with a size that is hard to grasp distant snow covered peaks and a constant mist playing among the distant icebergs. Both Louise and I were totally in love from the first step of the walk.
Even though located way up North and the Northern most settlement in Greenland, it seems more organised cleaner and better maintained than Tasiilaq. Our first impression tells us that Ittoqqortoormiit is a place we will return to with absolute certainty. And that the two weeks planned here will only be enough to scratch the surface of this place.

We settle in quickly and walks towards Nanu Travel to catch up on our plans for the next two weeks, but they are closed, same goes for the local super market.
It may sound strange, but we get the feeling that we are wrong about something, turning on the GPS in my watch confirms it, Ittoqqortoormiit is two hours ahead of the rest of Greenland and everything should be closed.
We walk up to a small grocery store and buy some basic food for dinner and heads back to the hostel where we prepare it and enjoy a quiet dinner, while discussing an evening walk.

From here we tour around the settlement for a good hour and the walk confirms our first impressions, this place is very unique and most surprising given where it is located and what we saw in Tasiilaq.
We even got to see the fur from a newly shot polar bear hanging for dry outside one of the houses, a very fresh reminded of that we are guests in a country ruled by polar bears and we better respect that and take our precautions.
We turn in for the night after a very long and very exciting day, we may not know what tomorrow brings, but both of us feel the adventures awaiting us.
You make me very hungry to go to Greenland again! Please tell us what you did during the rest of your time. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThank you for commenting first of all.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure i understand your question fully.
But do read the rest of the posts on this blog for more on my travels.
I have lived in Greenland for close to six years, this amazing arctic island is my personal paradise and my home.