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Disco Bay by Visit Greenland Disco Bay by Visit Greenland

Disco Bay

Disco Bay by Visit Greenland

Disco Bay is short for Discovery Bay is a Bay known for its beauty. Its also called Qasigiannguit and located south of Ilulissat Ice Fjort and is nature completely unspoilt by humans.

In the summer the temperatures can be up to 27 degrees Celcius and therefore also called the green heart of Disco Bay. Therefore hiking in the summer is recommendable, the nature around you with low hills, plain tundra and green stretches while you watch mountain tops and the clear blue fjords.

Holidays that feature Disco Bay

Nature
Holiday
Photo by Inga Navickiene / Baltic Travel Company
Type: Northern Lights | Activity Holiday | Anniversary | Autumn Holiday | Guided Tour | Honeymoon | Winter Holiday
10 days / 9 nights
from £ 5,640 pp

Autumn in Greenland

This special journey to Greenland offers you a unique combination of traveling by both domestic flight and coasting vessel along the west coast of Greenland as well as experiencing the most popular locations and towns in Greenland. We have selected the best experiences; the Greenland Ice Sheet in Kangerlussuaq, the capital city of Nuuk and not least Ilulissat in the Disco Bay area at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the world-famous Ilulissat Ice Fjord.

active
nature
holiday
Photo by Paul Zizka - Visit Greenland
Type: Group Tour | Autumn Holiday | Activity Holiday | Walking/Trekking | Northern Lights | Coastal Holiday | Girls Trip
10 days/9 nights
from £3,335 pp

Autumn Colours of Kangerlussuaq & Ilulissat

Regardless the season you decide to visit, Greenland always has extraordinary beauty to show. The autumn offers contrast to the short and busy summer. Nature shows all its various sides from glorious sunny days colouring the mountains to beautiful autumn colours to powerful autumn storms captivating the viewer with their unforgiveness.

 

 

More about Disco Bay

Greenland, in other words called Kalaallit Nunaat is the largest island in the world and the majority are called Inuits og eskimos. Greenland has a roughness over it but it is tremendously beautiful and is mostly covered with snow and ice, has untouched glaciers and outstandingly unique fjords.

In the summer you can enjoy the views of the Midnight Sun and wintertime Northern Lights, best between mid August and March, as the nights are long and dark and the air clear. Other acitvities to enjoy are whale watching, dog sledding and other excursions to enjoy the beautiful and different nature.

Greenland is part of Denmark but increasinly independent therefrom.

The towns on Greenland are fairly small and Nuuk is the largest one, based on the west coast of Greenland. Nuuk was first found by Hans Egede, the Norwegian explorer while Greenland was under Norwegian/Danish domain.

North Greenland is mostly known for having the best views of the Northern Lights, Midnight sun and dogsledding. This is still the most common way of transport.

West Greenland has the biggest concentration of the population and half ot Greenlands population live here. The total population is a bit less then 60,000. This is the area for the fjords, fjord cruises, whale watching safaris, watching calved ice from the glaciers and kayaking.

East Greenland has the most original way of living than anywhere else on Greenland, being fairly unspoilt, having dialects spoken you seldom hear and the inhabitants live a life far from modern times of living. In the region you can also do sea kayaking, boating safaris, helicopter trips etc as you can enjoy the tranquility and the beautiful nature.

South Greenland has the warmest climate with milder temperatures and is known as the green region of Greenland and you see more from the Viking times than elsewhere. This proves the Norse population settled here or indeed visiting and left influence even 1000 years after.

 


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