Maasdam

Friday the 20th July 2012 (08.00 – 17.00)

ARRIVAL
08.00 – 09:00 AM

Arrival
Landing to Nanortalik and exploring the city on your own. Throughout the city there will be different shows to attend until 03:00 PM.

FOLK DANCE + KAFFE-MIK
Culture House
09:30 – 10.30  AM  &  02:00   PM   folk dance

Kaffe-mik
Kaffe-mik (coffee party) is an old tradition where a family invites many guests into their home in case of celebration (weddings, birthdays etc.) to drink coffee or tea and taste the famous Greenlandic cake. The guests stay for 15 to 30 minutes only. We will arrange a kaffe-mik in the Culture House (public toilets inside).

Greenlandic folk dance
Here is a unique opportunity to experience the lively and quick moving Greenlandic folk dance. Dutch and Scottish whalers originally inspired the dances. They taught their special seaman dances “the reels” to the Disco Bay Eskimos. Through the centuries this has developed into the unique folk dance tradition we know today.

CHOIR
The old Nanortalik wooden Church
11:30 – 12.30  AM  &   2.45 PM

Greenlandic choir
Choir song in the old, wooden Nanortalik Church from 1916. The Greenlanders are famous for their multi-vocal singing. The slow moving psalms and the merry songs allow you to lean back and let your impressions of Greenland mix with the enchanting singing. The singers are dressed in national costumes.

OPEN AIR MUSEUM Old Harbour Admission Fee at the museum 25 DKK
09:00 AM – 03:00 PM

Nanortalik Museum
Summer camp with the appearance of fur-clad Inuit. Display of navigation in kayaks and a sealskin covered freight boat called the umiak, a women’s boat.

Nanortalik open-air museum
The open air museum is open all day. Nanortalik has one of the most unique museums in Greenland, displaying items from the old Inuit culture, the Norse settlements in Greenland from 982 AD and the Danish colonial power 1797-1953. You can easily spend 1-2 hours there. At the summer settlement in the museum area Inuit in traditional clothing will show how they lived in the old days.

DEPARTURE
05:00 PM

Departure
Departure from the harbour with good views and photo opportunities of the city.

Admission Fee / Tickets  / Tickets in the tourist office or at the entrances

Folk dance and kaffe-mik  15 US $
Choir in the old Nanortalik wooden church 10 US $

One fee/ticket for all performances 20 US $

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