2019.7.2

Before hiking the blue trail, we took a stroll around the town of Ilulissat. The town is not very large and can mostly be divided into the residential area near the hotels and the commercial area near the harbor. In the “middle town”, there is a school, and by the roadside, a football field, which served as our meeting point.

Ilulissat is the major city on Greenland, with a variety of shops, supermarkets, cafes, and restaurants. If you don’t want to eat at the hotel all the time, the town offers food from other regions, though the options are limited, the quality is still quite good.

Of course, the most beautiful sights in the city are the icebergs on the sea and the wildflowers that blanket the land in summer. Paired with the colorful wooden houses, it creates the most picturesque and distinctive Arctic scenery.

The sunlight and clouds at 11 PM the night before departure and again at 4 AM on the day of departure. Looking at the photos afterward, I regretted not going to have a walk by the giant icebergs and taking some pictures. It wasn’t late at all at 11 PM, and I’m sure I would have got better pictures.

We flew back to Iceland at noon, and the next leg of our journey would be just as wonderful. I came across a quote in the magazine on the airplane: “Travelling – It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” This perfectly sums up our journey in Greenland!