Greenland – Higman Travels

Today is a ship day. Notice how I’m finally catching up and am in present tense? We cruised for about 7 hours through Prince Christian Sound. The first couple of pictures will show where we were. The most amazing scenes. I cannot imagine being here in the winter. We also saw a little village of about 150 people, only accessible by boat or helicopter. Justin and I always wonder about sanitation in these towns. They are settled on rocks so there cannot be a septic system, right? Hmmmmm. Where does their trash go?

There are way too many pictures to share here and I will update some later but here’s the beginning. Justin and I were glued to the views for hours. I’m grateful that I can be on the elliptical machine while enjoying the views.

Jevyn also joined the Viking Polar Bear Plunge. It was a little anti-climatic because the water was about 85 degrees, they dropped 2 buckets of ice in, then said it was cold. Haha. Not quite cold enough for the Jevster.

Southern tip of Greenland

Prince Christian Sound

Beautiful Reflections in the water

Beautiful peaks

Amazing Glacier

Beautiful Ripples in the water

different ripples

more ripples

Blue face Viking

Ice to cool the 85 degree pool. Not quite enough, folks.

Pre-plunge

Post-plunge

We finally made it to land today … Greenland!!! Yaaaayyy. The water was smooth and it was a beautiful day. Qaqortoq is a small village on the western side of Greenland. They use Danish Kroners and speak Greenlandic. It’s a place where they still hunt seals and sell seal fur. It’s a little weird for us Californians to experience all this but we have to respect that this has been their way of life for thousands of years. (note: if you click on the photos you can read the captions.) On the ship’s visitor information for the ports they listed a Thai restaurant called Bon Thai. We thought it would be fun to have Thai food in Greenland so after walking around town we followed the map to find the restaurant. As we were walking Justin sees 3 Thai ladies and he says “follow them.” We gave him a hard time because we thought it was very insensitive of him to think that every Thai person would work at the Thai restaurant. So, we walked in circles for about 20 minutes and asked several pedestrians and no one could understand us. We finally get back to the center of town and asked a store owner. He tells us that the restaurant moved and it’s now called “In Box.” We go to the other side of town (which is a 5 minute walk) and go into a building. We tried 2 doors in the building and no luck. We get out of the building and see there are 2 Thai ladies and ask them. Apparently, lunch doesn’t start til 2 pm (it was 12:15). Hmmm. Very weird business model – ship is in town, lots of visitors including a lot of Thai workers on the ship, and they don’t open while we are in town???? So, the lady was very nice, we thanked her. Justin was right, one of the ladies was a woman we saw earlier. Moral of the story is that we should have followed the Thai people.