4th August - Narsarsuaq

Narsarsuaq, on the west coast of Greenland, has a population of just 160 and is situated at the end of a long fjord. It seemed very incongruous to be eating breakfast in a warm cabin whilst looking at icebergs just outside your window!

Tunulliarfik Fjord at dawn

We had to land at Narsarsuaq by tender from Seven Seas Navigator

We went on a c5 mile trek along the aptly named Flower Valley (Blomsterdalen). This was all formed by the Kuussuup Sermia glacier which has now retreated

This is the Willow-herb - the national flower of Greenland...and a lot of lichen

Suddenly you come over the hill and see this fantastic glacier valley ("Old Woman's Belly") in front of you

The valley is covered in lush grass...VERY wet to walk through!

Then you reach the banks of the river running white from the melting glacier

In the 1950s the Americans built a hospital in this remote site - apparently to treat the worst injured from the Korean War so their return did not affect morale at home... It burnt down and this chimney is all that is left.

We left in the afternoon sailing back down Tunulliarfik (or Eric the Red's) Fjord to the open sea...surrounded by icebergs