Best of Greenland: Ilulissat Icefjord UNESCO, Nuuk, Disko Bay, East Greenland Kulusuk, Northern Lights & Arctic Cruises - A 2026 First-Person Guide
Browse more guides: Greenland (denmark Autonomous) travel | Americas/Arctic destinations Best of Greenland: Ilulissat Icefjord UNESCO, Nuuk, Disko Bay, East Greenland Kulusuk, Northern Lights & Arctic Cruises - A 2026 First-Person Guide TL;DR I planned my first Greenland trip the way a worried engineer plans a launch. I had a spreadsheet of flight prices in Danish kroner, a backup spreadsheet in US dollars at the parity I memorised at the airport in Copenhagen, and a small notebook where I had written, in capital letters, the sentence "you are going to the world's largest island and it is mostly ice." Two weeks later I came home with a different sentence written in the same notebook: "you have only seen the edge of it." That is the honest summary of Greenland, and it is also the honest summary of this guide. Greenland is officially Kalaallit Nunaat, "the land of the Kalaallit," the indigenous Inuit people who make up around 88 percent of the ...