Hotel room view - amazing

Zion Church - the oldest in Greenland, and when it was built in 1779 the largest building in the country

From the town you can see the massive icebergs at the mouth of the Icefjord in the distance

Ice, stranded at low tide

Whale jawbone at the harbour

The locals queuing to buy whale meat from a boat that had just come in with its catch

It was butchered onboard, and then the meat was passed up to each buyer on the quayside

A small iceberg in the harbour. Apparently, if a large one that is too big to tow gets in and is in the way, it is broken up with dynamite!

We went to a Greenlandic buffet in one of the hotels - winter dried delicacies as appetisers

Among the over 20 specialities on offer were five different whale dishes

The Ilulissat Icefjord is a UNESCO World Heritage Site - the Icefjord Centre has loads of really interesting information inside

You can walk over the roof

There are sled dogs on every piece of unused land - the law says that all dogs over six months old have to be chained up, as they can be very dangerous if approached

The dog population is greater than the human population, and there is a large ring of dogs all around the town - the howling can get quite loud

They are all Greenland dogs, one of the purest breeds in the world, isolated for over a thousand years - it's illegal to bring any other breed of dog north of the Arctic Circle here, so that nothing like Amber gets into the gene pool!

Looks like the mother has had enough of her pups for a while

The puppies roam free until they reach adulthood

This one has figured out to get food from tourists at the Icefjord Centre

They spend the summer gathering strength for their work in the freezing winter

A Lapland longspur on a pallet fence. There are no trees in Greenland and wood is scarce, so pallets are recycled and used for everything

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