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Guided Sightseeing in Greenland

The best way to experience our towns is through the eyes of a local guide who lives there.

Greenland! As the name rolls off the tongue, images of lush green meadows, flower gardens and hay growing in fields comes to mind with many people around the world. Looking at a world map, though, Greenland is anything but green. In fact it seems mostly white and with hardly any land at all, only ice, miles and miles of it, and it covers the country. Nobody can live on something like that, right? Or can they?

We certainly can. And we are fiercely patriotic on a very local level. Everyone feels their city or town is the best one in Greenland and local guides will be more than happy to share their knowledge with you of their town, its history, its people stories, its out-of the-way places, its quirks and other things only locals know about.

“The guide we had was just wonderful. She took us to see her dogs, and we played with the puppies!”

Package Tours

Blue Ice Explorer: Easy hiking package

Blue Ice Explorer

Easy hiking package. 8 days

Tour package for individual travellers in the best hiking area in Greenland! Accommodation at farms and in settlements.

FROM €510
Greenland Tours: Northern Lights & Icebergs

Greenland Tours

Northern Lights & Icebergs

4 days in Ilulissat incl. dog sledding & Northern Lights tour

FROM €830
Disko Line: Day trip to Eqip Sermia

Disko Line

Day trip to Eqip Sermia

Experience the beautiful Eqi glacier that runs into the fjord north of Ilulissat.

FROM €327
Disko Line: Icefjord Cruise

Disko Line

Icefjord Cruise

Get closer to the impressive Greenlandic nature with Icefjord Cruise.

FROM €93
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GUIDED TOWN TOURS IN GREENLAND

In some cities and towns you walk around, in others they offer rides in cars or on buses, and in most towns throughout the country historical walks, town highlights, visits with local families, museum exhibitions, everyday street life are central local tour elements.

And if more serious hiking and a trip outside the limits appeals to you, then we have hills and mountains in abundance. After some huffing, puffing and sweating going up a mountainside, you will most likely end up agreeing with your guide that the view from the top is second-to-none and well worth the effort.

GUIDED TOURS BY AIR AND SEA

From a mountain top you will most certainly see fjords and the sea, and local boat owners offer a number of ways to experience Greenland from the water once you are back at sea level.

Whale watching is a popular experience, with humpback whales as the most frequent guests near a boat, and your guide usually knows about hot spots for finding whales. But boat tours are also a great way to access the vast backcountry neighboring every town in the country.

With no roads linking up any of our cities or towns, the waters along our shorelines are our highways, and for centuries this is how people travelled in order to get from one place to another.

With a place as big as Greenland there is really no better substitute for a full perspective than flightseeing in either helicopters or small fixed wing planes with pilots who know every valley and peak in the area.

To hover right over mountain peaks, to dive down through valleys and fjords, flying over glaciers and along the rim of the mighty Greenland Ice Sheet, and to even spot herds of musk oxen in a few select locations, is a worthy way to experience Greenland.

ICE AND WINTER GUIDES IN GREENLAND

If ice and snow is what you came for, then a place like Kangerlussuaq offers tours right out onto the Ice Cap itself. Layers of snow, falling every winter as it has for thousands of years, press down on each other to form the immense expanse of ice that nearly covers the country.

And the ice is not a static “dead” thing, but quite active – moaning and groaning as huge chunks come crashing down along its sides. Out there you are best served by the experienced local ice guides who can put ice movements and global warming into context while taking you safely out onto the Ice Sheet itself.

The same kind of activity-shaped experts are part of the dogsledding and snowmobiling communities in both East and West Greenland, and local dogsledding guides are often seasoned hunters, while snowmobiling drivers have extensive knowledge and experience from thousands of miles of exploring the backcountry.

Local providers

Red view from livingroom, Photo by Ilulissat Guesthouse

Ilulissat Guesthouse

Ilulissat, Qupaloraasuk 56,
3952,
Phone: +299 27 89 80More information
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Albatros Arctic Circle

Kangerlussuaq, Mittarfiit Aqq.
3910,
Phone: +299 84 16 48More information
Handmade figure. Visit Greenland

Tupilak Travel

Nuuk, Imaneq 18,
3900,
Phone: (+299) 313 218More information
Aerial view of the hotel with sunrise in background in Winter. Photo by Hotel Angmagssalik

Hotel Angmagssalik

Tasiilaq, Suulup Aqqutaa B 725,
3913,
Phone: +299 98 12 93More information
Woman mask dancing on a sunny day in Aasiaat. Photo by Honest Greenland - Visit Greenland

Honest Greenland

Aasiaat, Qimmeqarfik 60,
3950,
Phone: +299 27 77 90More information
Guests at Hvalsey church ruin in South Greenland. Photo by Mads Pihl - Visit Greenland

Greenland Sagalands

Qaqortoq, Vatikanbakken 68,
3920,
Phone: +299 64 24 44 / +299 49 37 41More information
Saling vessel between icebergs in Greenland. Photo by Blue Ice Explorer, Visit Greenland.

Blue Ice Explorer

Narsarsuaq, Box 58
3923,
Phone: +299 66 54 99 / +299 49 73 71More information
Sarfaq Ittuk cruising in the Disko Bay outside Ilulissat ice fjord in Greenland. Visit Greenland

Arctic Umiaq Line

Nuuk, Aqqusinersuaq 48 A,
3900,
Phone: +299 34 91 90More information
Uummannaq and the heart-shaped mountain. Photo by Uummannaq Seasafaris ApS, Visit Greenland

Uummannaq Seasafaris APS

Uummannaq, Qernertunnguamut B -909 Box 118,
3961,
Phone: (+299) 565 982More information

World of Greenland

Ilulissat, Kussangajaannguaq 7,
3952,
Phone: (+299) 944 300More information
A view of two Air Zafari flightseeing planes over the Greenland Ice Sheet near Kangerlussuaq Airport

Air Zafari

Nuuk, Box 568
3900,
Phone: +299 58 40 68 / +299 24 85 54More information

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