The news that US President Donald Trump is playing with the idea to buy Greenland, spread the end of August like wildfire around the world. While Denmark and Greenland Trumps idea issued an immediate cancellation, said Julia Pars, the Head of Greenland tourism , about the increased international interest. They announced that they wanted to use the attention to bring more tourists to Greenland.
Donald Trump was likely to appreciate the primary to the ground and the strategic location North of the Arctic circle, the true wealth of Greenland, the us President, probably not at the top of the priority list had. It is the incredible natural beauty, the largest island in the world a top spot on many Bucket Lists are.
We don’t show, why they buy the “green country” perhaps not, but at least once should visit.
The big ice
ice, as far as the eye and even more. Photo:
White large-Wide: Nearly 85 percent of the island are covered by ice – an area larger even than the UK. But what for ice-cream! It covers Greenland, since 18 million years ago. The layer is up to three kilometers thick. These ice shelves make up about ten percent of the total freshwater reservoir of the earth. In some Places you can even find up to 100’000 years old ice. Before the snow turned into ice, he has stored oxygen, which is now delivered to the melt again. He is thousands of years old and free of man-made pollution.
The giant island
With its 2’175’600 square kilometres Greenland is by far the largest island in the world. Plenty of space for adventure! Only at its edges, the Terrain is ice-free and green. Therefore, Erik the Red, the Viking who was responsible for the colonization of the island from the European area, the island was called “Green Land” Greenland, or Greenland. Again and again there are scientists who claim that it would actually consist of three different Islands. They were, however, hidden under the thick layer of ice. For this Thesis, there is no evidence.
A gigantic fjord system
Like a maze, and far of the Scoresby Sund branches:. With a total length of 350 kilometers it is the largest fjord system on the planet. It covers the gigantic area of 38 000 square kilometers. The landscape is dominated by mountains rising steep to the sky and often 2000 meters high. A rather lonely Region, with Only about 600 people live here.
The theatre in the sky
movie: The sky as a giant canvas. Photo: Pixabay.
Quite a big cinema in the sky: Like a veil, moving in the Wind, the Northern lights across the Firmament, shines in its colors of mostly Green and Yellow, and staged in a tent in the sky as a big canvas. Up here there is actually no Region of the Aurora borealis shows. You should always reckon with the magic of the polar light, not only in the winter months. Best time: September to April.
The fascinating animal world
A polar bear in the cold polar sea. Photo: Unsplash
polar bear and Arctic Fox, reindeer and Arctic hare, musk ox and Arctic Wolf in Greenland has it all, and the same in the wild. They live mainly in the North and in the northeast Greenland national Park, with 972’000 square kilometers is the largest in the world. The Ice sheet that sets human limits, it means no obstacle for them. It’s part of their habitat. For (guided) Hiking tours, the otherwise very rare opportunity to encounter these rare animals with appropriate distance arises.
whale watching
Who wants to be the largest mammals in the world very close, in the summer to Greenland. As humpback, fin and minke whales between July and September, you can even regularly watch. In the spring, with a bit of luck, Narwhals, Belugas, and Grönlandwale. Equal to 17 different species in the waters around the island home. Particularly interesting for the whale watching, the South and the West. In the North of Greenland, it meets the most mysterious sea creatures.
expeditions
small-ship makes it ideal in an unknown realm to penetrate. Photo: Unsplash
One of the best ways to discover the fascinating nature of Greenland, is a journey with an expedition ship (for example, the Hurtigruten). A kind of clever cruise on a smaller, eisgängigen ships, which can penetrate in the ramified fjords and through the pack ice to navigate. With Zodiacs – manoeuvrable inflatable boats – to get glaciers, the calving, floating icebergs, whales, and walruses up close. Knowledgeable Guides lead to extended hikes over great natural landscapes and the contact with the Inuit Grönländern is easily manufactured. Interesting lectures on Fauna and Flora, culture, and Geology, marine biology, or history of the polar island enrich the journey. (Travel content)
Created: 27.09.2019, 15:31 PM
