(Notice I do not use the day of the week in the title because of the phenomenon of “Greenlandic Travel Time”.)
To orient you, today’s post is about hiking from Qassiarsuk to Tasiusaq and then kayaking there. Here is the map:
Breakfast in the hostel (and this soon became the daily breakfast): meat and cheese slices (no thanks), various jellies (everyone referred to as “marmalade”), some kind of fruit membrane (sounds gross but was okay), Nutella, and “bread” – and when I say “bread”, I really mean crackers.
Anyhow, after breakfast, we set off for our seven mile hike to Tasiusaq. It was a pleasant hike through rolling hills, as pictured:
So the yellow house was not a house but a hostel run by Jesus (Spanish pronunciation – I am not being cheeky here). There was no running water and the toilet was a “gravity toilet” which collected liquids in the front and solids in the back. (And jus like everywhere in Greenland – throw no paper in the toilet ever.)
I shared a room with Berit.
The area we stayed was a settlement of six people. There was a farm with a couple of cute dogs that we were under strict orders not to pet (!) as they had to stay with the farm and not get wooed by the tourists.
After some time relaxing, we headed to the water to kayak.
Amy Oswalt 