Meet your guide and your group at Keflavík Airport in Reykjavík. The plane takes off at 5:30pm and lands in Kulusuk at 6:15pm local time. After the baggage has been picked up by a local, you’ll walk to the village to your accommodation. Kulusuk is situated on an island surrounded in three directions by other islands and mountain peaks. It’s home to about 250 people, many of them hunters and fishermen. After lunch, explore the village and its surroundings, get to know its history, and admire landscapes and icebergs. You’ll have some free time in the late afternoon. Spend the next 2 nights in a hut-style accommodation in a traditional local house.

Meals: Lunch and dinner
Hiking: 3 hours

Morning departure to discover the spectacular landscape of Kulusuk Island, home to the fourth-largest settlement on the entire eastern coast of Greenland. Walk up to a hill offering a view towards the west, with icebergs and drift ice in abundance on the ocean. Admire the green color of a mountain lake before heading to the coast to enjoy the cliffs and rock formations on the shore. Return to your accommodation.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Hiking: 6-7 hours

Take a boat to Kuummiut in the morning, the northernmost village in the Ammassalik region, sitting at the foot of high and steep granite mountains. Once you’ve settled down in a local hut-style accommodation, go for an afternoon walk in Kuummiut and along the shore. You might even meet locals fishing arctic char with a rod. Spend the night in Kuummiut.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Hiking: Several hours

Today’s goal is climbing Qeqqit Qaqqartivaat, the almost 1,100-meter (3,609 ft) high mountain above Kuummiut. Start ascending by climbing the ridge just above the village, which will give you a spectacular panorama of what the locals call Dunu or Tunu, a stellar small fjord surrounded by steep mountains. Then turn left to climb the second ridge up to the edge of a hanging valley, soon reaching the top. The peak boasts great views of the surrounding mountains, glaciers, fjords, and valleys as far as the eye can see. Night is spent at the same accommodation as the day before.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Hiking: 6-7 hours
Elevation gain: 1,050 m / 3,445 ft

You’re leaving Kuummiut today and heading to Tiilerilaaq by the Ikaasatsivaq strait, towered over by granite peaks pointing to the sky on each side. Arriving to Tiilerilaaq, a tiny hunter’s village, you’ll reach the edge of the Sermilik ice fjord. This fjord has one of the most productive glacier systems in the world, moving over 30 meters (99 ft) per day and constantly calving icebergs. You’ll bring your luggage to a comfortable house in the village, and after a refreshment, go for a walk, enjoying the incredible vistas. Spend the night in Tiilerilaaq.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Hiking: 3 hours
Sailing: 3 hours

Start your day with a hike, doing a loop over to a small river, where you are likely to find the national flower of Greenland, the vibrantly pink Niviarsiaq (meaning “young girl” in Greenlandic). Continue climbing a long and broad ridge to a 420-meter high point to get a view over the Sermilik fjord. You’ll get the whole panorama: pyramid-shaped mountains and endless ridges and peaks to the East and the enormous Greenland Ice Cap to the West. Return to Tiilerilaaq in the afternoon.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Hiking: 6-7 hours
Elevation gain: 420 m / 1,378 ft

Early in the morning, you’ll get transferred by a boat to a place sometimes called the Golden Beach. From there, follow the trail climbing to the hills to the east. You’ll pass a small lake, then a second, and a third, until you reach a small mountain pass at about 350 m (1,149 ft). Continue hiking along several bigger lakes until you hit the Tasiilaq fjord. Here the trail follows the coastline until you come into Tasiilaq, the largest town of East Greenland with its 2,000 inhabitants. Spend the night in a guesthouse.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Hiking: 6-7 hours
Elevation gain: 350 m / 1,149 ft

Today you’re climbing to the high Sailor’s Mountain, Qaqqartivakajik, just behind town. Follow a steep ridge until you get to the lower summit of the mountain, boasting stellar views. Continue to the higher summit at 679 m (2,228 ft) to enjoy some more views of the surrounding mountains, glaciers, and icebergs, before descending into a valley on the north side. Walk along a lake to the Flower Valley, where you’ll find several arctic plants in bloom. Return to Tasiilaq and spend the night at the same guesthouse.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Hiking: 5-6 hours
Elevation gain: 650 m / 2,133 ft

Spend the last full day in Greenland as you wish—you have free time to tour Tasiilaq, visit the local museum, the local handcraft store, or the town center. In the afternoon, take the boat over the Kulusuk (1 hour) where you’ll stay in the same house as the beginning of the trip.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

The flight departs from Kulusuk at 7pm, and we’ll arrive in Keflavik at 9.45pm local time. Say goodbye to your group and guides, but feel free to stay longer and explore Iceland. Just ask your guides for recommendations!

Meals: Breakfast