Albatros Arctic Circle - Greenland Brochure

HIKE &
CULTURAL
IMMERSION
- Walk and Talk
DURATION: 2 DAYS TOUR
SEASON: FROM JUNE TO SEPTEMBER
Cecilia was a girl who lived with her family in Oqaatsut, a small
settlement north of Ilulissat. The story tells that one night,
Cecilia’s father was severely ill. In a desperate call for getting
help, Cecilia ran the 20 kilometers that separate these two
villages. In memory of Cecilia’s story, this trail that goes from
one village to the other has been called after her.
On the first day of our program, we invite you to walk with us,
accompanied by our local guide and take you through the fauna,
flora and stories of this untouched landscape: a bay full of blue
icebergs, rivers where fish run up for migration, Arctic flowers in
the middle of tundra fields, or metamorphosed rocks polished by
the action of glaciers. Once in Oqaatsut we will settle down in our
rooms and have a traditional dinner, with free time to walk around
the settlement.
On the next day, we go on a small walk and tell you about the
everyday life of the village’s inhabitants. We then join some
local activities, tasks that the locals do in their everyday life. The
activity we will do is subject to the season and the activities that
local people do, such as learning how to cook and smoke fish, how
to cut and dry it for storage, collecting wild plants and flowers to
make tea, feed the sled dogs with their musher, repair a fishing
net, or build a sled. Our local English speaking guide will translate,
so you understand and learn about the Greenlandic reality.
INCLUSIONS
• Guide
• Boat transfer
• Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Demonstration of traditional
fishing and ways to process
and preserve it.
• Walk around the settlement
DIFFICULTY LEVEL
• 3 out of 5
Greenland Summer & Winter Tours
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