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Sep 26

Can You Say Qaqortoq?

By Jay Slupesky
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Daycare in Qaqortoq, Greenland

The ship arrived in Qaqortoq, Greenland about 8 AM this morning. I never dreampt that I would get to visit Greenland, but here I am!

Qaqortoq only has about 3000 residents, and given that there are 2700 passengers on this ship, I think we overwhelmed this sleeply little town. We have been told that whenever a cruise ship visits this port it’s a huge deal to the town. School is cancelled so that the children can see the tourists and help guide them around (I think this is because the children speak English better than the adults now that it is taught in schools).

We spent about the four hours walking around the town, and I concentrated on taking photographs of the residents. Interestingly, the people are descended from both the Danish settlers (from hundreds of years ago) and the native people, called Inuits.

The few stores in the town were crawling with other ship passengers,so I tried to avoid going in them.

We were told that the high temperature today was forecast to be 38 degrees, but it didn’t really seem that cold.

I was fortunate enough to get several photographs of the people of Qaqortoq. I’ll be posting them here over the next few days. Be sure to click the photo in order to get the full-size image.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 11:55 am and is filed under Travels with the Therapist.

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