Seabourn Sojourn

Friday 21 September 2012 (08:00 – 18:00)

There are no plans yet for shore excursions.

 Here are the typical plans for shore excursions in Nanortalik

ARRIVAL

Landing to Nanortalik and exploring the city on your own. Throughout the city there will be different shows to attend unti.

FOLK DANCE and KAFFE-MIK – Culture House

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

Greenlandic 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.

OPENAIR MUSEUM – Old Harbour

Summer camp with the appearance of fur-clad Inuit. Display of navigation in kayaks and a sealskin covered freight boat called the Umiaq, 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.

KAYAK AND UMIAQ SHOW – Old Harbour

Impressive kayak and Umiaq (fur boat)show – Kayak and Umiaq show in the waters in front of the summer settlement at the museum with good photo opportunities from the beach. The Inuit has invented the kayak. Actually, kayak is an old Inuit name, only it is spelled “qajaq” in Greenlandic. The treacherous and harsh waters surrounding Greenland – the world’s largest island – forced the

hunters that came across from Canada and Alaska to develop one of their only means of transportation to the utmost accuracy.

This is a very special opportunity to experience how the hunters of Greenland by centuries of passing on knowledge has mastered the various techniques; such as the “Eskimo roll” to assure they would survive capsize during a storm.

DEPARTURE 06.00 PM

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

Admission Fee / Tickets