The entire time we were here, everyone always said “eastern” Greenland. Eastern Greenland is the most isolated inhabited area of the world. It is between the Greenland ice cap and the Arctic sea ice. It’s an area of steep, dramatic mountains, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, streams, rivers, icebergs, and a wildly indented coastline. Eastern Greenland has about 3,500 inhabitants.

The eastern coast of Greenland is about 1,700 miles long and has two small towns and five small villages. We visited one of the towns and one of the villages.

We flew from Iceland and landed in the village of Kulusuk because it has the only airport in eastern Greenland. We then traveled directly from the airport to Tasiilaq via helicopter.

We exited our plane, picked up our luggage on the edge of the runway and then boarded the helicopter on the left side.

This is the Kulusuk airport runway. It's dirt and gravel but it was a very smooth landing and taking off runway.

This is the end of the Kulusuk runway. The plane needs to get up in a bit of a hurry.

This was our first view of Tasiilaq as we came in for a landing in our helicopter. We felt much better about Greenland then.

Vicky got to ride shotgun for the 10 minute ride from Kulusuk to Tasiilaq so the photos above were her photos.