Text: Anders Stenbakken
Destination East Greenland
Leave your clock behind, and check out from the known world for a while. Grab this rare opportunity to stay with an Inuit family in one of our settlements, and get a first hand experience of the fascinating lifestyle of an Inuit hunter. This is as far from crowded tourist destinations as you’re ever going to get, and properly the closest to a culture so very different from you own.
The daily life of an Inuit hunter is refreshingly different. Of course time in a settlement is measured in hours and days, but only when we’re talking opening hours at the school and the shop, for a hunter it really doesn’t make much sense. His life is a full circle where the season’s activities determine the daily schedule. Experiencing East Greenland along with an Inuit is a unique opportunity to observe the very close bonds between the Inuit and nature.
In all settlements selected families offer private accommodation for one to two persons. Please have a closer look at the possibilities in the section Ammassalik District.
You can decide to just rent a room or a bed, and do your own exploration or you can buy a “package” where you’ll be part of all the activities of the Inuit family.
No matter what form of stay you choose a holiday in a settlement will offer you extraordinary experiences and photo opportunities.
The package is accommodation, food and being part of the season’s activities.
Winter/spring: Ice fishing, seal hunting and dog sledding. Preparing of sealskin and food.
As you’re part of the family you’ll be expected to take part of the fishing, hunting and cooking. When the family is going on a social visit you’ll go along.
Summer: Seal hunting and fishing. Including going with you host family for a two days fishing trip with tent to a fishing ground.
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