Greenland humbles everyone who goes. An ice sheet up to three kilometres thick, the most productive glacier outside Antarctica, and settlements of a few hundred souls strung along a coast that runs for thousands of miles — it is travel at a scale that quietly recalibrates the senses.
Ilulissat and the icefjord
The UNESCO-listed Ilulissat Icefjord is fed by Sermeq Kujalleq, which calves more ice than any glacier outside Antarctica — a slow armada of bergs grinding out into Disko Bay. We design boat days among them and walks along the fjord’s edge, where the cracks, groans and distant thunder of moving ice are unlike anything else on Earth.
Whales among the ice
Disko Bay in summer fills with humpbacks feeding among the icebergs — a meeting of whale and ice found in almost no other place. We pair private boat time with shore-based viewing and a stay in the colourful capital, Nuuk, where a New Greenlandic food scene is quietly emerging.
For the High Arctic and its polar bears, read our Svalbard dispatch →
Greenland is vast and quiet, and it sets its own schedule.
A coast measured in days
There are no roads between Greenland’s towns; travel is by boat, helicopter and small plane, and the weather has the final word. We choreograph the connections — and build extra time into the schedule — so the logistics fade into the background and the landscape stays in front of you.
Greenland is all about the connections — the flights and boats that link a coast with no roads. We build extra time into the schedule for weather, so a delayed boat or flight rarely changes the heart of the trip.
