HOLIDAYS TO GREENLAND

To holiday in Greenland is to holiday on the edge of a giant ice cap (over 80% of the world's biggest island is covered in ice) with a fertile coastal fringe indented with glacial valleys and fjords, many of which in summer have carving glacier tongues at their edge with bergs drifting leisurely out to sea. Above all Greenland is awesome grandeur: eerily quiet with a tiny population still a long way from the 21st century in both mind and spirit.

Greenland's fleeting summer brings migratory birds and a plethora of flora and fauna: bluebells, broad leaf fireweed, mountain crowberry, herbs, mosses and heather. Wildlife is prolific with white tailed Eagles, Polar Bears, Reindeer, Fin and Humpback Whales, Harp Seals, Musk Oxen and Blue & White Arctic Foxes.

For those interested in the complexity of climate change Greenland is one giant resource centre: researchers have drilled down over 3 kilometres to extract a core providing a 100,000 year old climate change record; in 2007 a new island 'Warming Island' was revealed as the ice sheet retreated and Greenland's ice sheet stores 10% of the world's fresh water.

We have a comprehensive range of tours for individual and escorted adventure holidays to Greenland. But if you can't find exactly what you are looking for either on this website or in our brochure we will happily tailor make a travel itinerary for you that's FREE of charge or obligation in the first instance.
  

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