Thank you. I’m 80 years very fit and if my family situation will allow it I will take the time to visit Greenland and Nuuk. So my god give me some more time to full fill my dreams
Hi, oh yes I have traveled the world. Love Italy a lot, but going to Greenland has something to do with my love to Natives who were colonized and Robbed iIdentity and more. And now being 80 my wish is that Greenland will be free. Young people will be proud of what they are. Now corporate companies should try again to take away what belongs to the Greenlanders. It will happen, it my take some more years but Change is coming. My god bless Greenland.
As a person that lives in Greenland it’s beautiful but there has been a lot of things going on for everyone there’s murders fire abusive people dying people just a lot. And to prove that I live in Greenland if you wanna say Cool in Greenland you say Torrak😊
@@Leahshappy even though Greenland has lots of social issues, I still love it and probably always will ❤. I think its the most beautiful country in the whole world and its beauty brings me to tears sometimes 😍. Asavakkit Kalaallit Nunaat.
@@ifjchsiwocjcjs4378Instead of crying, how about demanding your lazy corrupt Politicians to handle their well paid responsibilities? You can't go on for ever in a spiral of alcohol, abuse and crime.. Good luck ✌🏻🇩🇰
I remember learning that Greenland was not actually uninhabited. I was told the people of Greenland won't survive into 21st century. Now Greenland seems to be known for the people who are truly part of the Indigenous cultures. Survival is a beautiful thing!
It's a self governing country now with some prospect of full independence. I hope they don't rush into that because an independent state with fewer than 60,000 people would be very vulnerable. At present, while ruling themselves and not in the EU they have the protection of a NATO and EU member.
Demolish the horrible apartments and ask a local architect to design a tribute to the Native People based on innuit tradition and culture knock that European shit down
Some times you just gotta kill your baby girls and old people because life in the high arctic is so brutal. We should respect their culture. Don't take my word for it though, look up Inuit eldercide and gendercide.
Yeah right, study ongoing crime, rape, suicide and unemployment statistics from that desolate tax paid country before romanticising what you have no clue about!
Seems like a great place, the old ways or traditional ways that give Greenland it's sense of community is something I hope they keep hold of, maybe the rest of us can learn from them.
Their architecture is terrible. Where’s the stones? Where’s the bricks? Where’s the pillars, the marble, the theaters, the hotels, the memorial buildings, the giant churches, the architecturally significant buildings? Nuuk has nothing but cheap 1-3 story crapstructures.
In response to the many negative comments about the comment in the film about the legacy of the missionary Hans Egede I would like to point out that this is not my personal view - it is the established Greenlandic view as expressed to visitors of the National Museum. From the Greenland National Museum & Archive website:- “The last 50 years have brought new perspectives on the significance of Hans Egede's influence on Greenland. In 1971, Greenland's 250th anniversary was celebrated in different ways, but largely expressed a very romantic notion of Hans Egede as a father-type figure to Greenland and the country's union with Christendom. Now in 2021, Hans Egede's arrival is seen in a more nuanced way. The focus is on reconciling a complicated past with the benefit of perspective and a more thoughtful understanding of the enduring influence of Christianity on Greenlandic society and culture. This includes changing political perspectives that have in recent years shifted public expressions of the 1721 anniversary from jubilant affairs to more respectful observances.”
Your anti-christian bigotry transpires from the very first minute of your video. Worse: you do not want to take responsibility for your own views (trying to deflect it on those of the National Museum). The problem is that the views expressed by the National museum are those of their director, a rabid anti-christian far leftist named Daniel Thorleifsen (who happens to have a very interesting twitter feed btw). Since these anti-christian views are in line with yours, you made it a central element of your video thinking that no-one would notice.
Southern Greenland was uninhabited when the Norse first settled there in the 10th Century. The Norse were either wiped out or absorbed by the Inuit settlers centuries later, and Egede was trying to find them. Egede tried very hard to help the Inuit. The "established" Greenlandic view is largely just spoon-fed propaganda from China and Russia as they look to conquer Greenland to aid in their goal of destroying America and other nations. Greenland is on course to become a vassal of China, and we can see from Sri Lanka that China will be much worse to Greenland than Denmark.
It doesn’t matter if this is your personal view or not. What matters is that you’re using this narrative in your video. You won’t get out of this that easy.
@@kriskolish6423eah, the revelations of how missionaries in Canada ended up being little more than jailors with side job of torturers and murderers of aboriginal children has changed the 60s and 70s fiction of them being saviors of souls. The interaction in Greenland probably had less victims, but the respect level for Inuit customs and beliefs was likely one of disdain there as well.
I just landed at your place with the Microsoft Flight Simulator - as an emergency landing exercise on an intended flight from Kevlavik to Boston/Massachusetts. Ok, the Boeing 737 didn't quite manage to come to a stop on the short runway, but I'm there now. Thanks to your video, I now know how beautiful it is here and that Nuuk is the capital of Greenland.
@@Heiko2506 I think it's finnished the runway now Greenlandair reference: th-cam.com/video/0nPm-6PRGdo/w-d-xo.html... though I do not believe they run any of the big Jets there yet.
Hi! Im from 🇷🇺, but I’m Greek First heard about Greenland in a game "Penumbra" When i was playing, I read and heard different facts about Inuit culture and history, especially about Tuurngait(the game is about him) When I hear Greenland, I feel a little mystery or something… I don’t know I really want to visit your country, and this gorgeous and beautiful city! And I’d like to mention, I like how Inuit girls look) I find them beautiful
Inuit / arctic circle indigineous (?) Art always has such a trippy, surreal, & almost kinda spacey/sci-fi I have seen some really great stuff, luckily, lol, and you were kind enough to show me some more! I MUST visit iceland, greenland, etc as well as some of the smaller WAYYY north atlantic/arctic se😂a islands they all seem so cool & magical
What is the easiest and cheapest, or should I say relatively inexpensive way to get to Greenland and back from either Iceland or Denmark, not sure if there is a Ferry service or not? Cheers, Great video.
There is no ferry service and cruise operators are extremely expensive. The most affordable way to get there is flying on Air Greenland from either Copenhagen or Keflavik (Iceland)
Hey great video! Any reason why you didn't bring up its rich Scandinavian heritage. And what's up with calling it a colony? It's been a part of Scandinavian kingdoms for over a thousand years
Just a lack of time and resources. I was only in Nuuk for a couple of days whist on holiday with my wife. I just wanted to give a quick insight into what the town is like. Would love to have the time and money to make a longer more detailed film!
Moro em uma cidade onde a média de temperatura é de 28 graus celsius positivo e seria interessante conhecer uma cidade como Nuuk com temperatura tão diferente. Fiquei com vontade e curioso para desvendar as belezas naturais de Nuuk.
@@imperialbeautee no. Incrível mas moro no mesmo fuso horário de Nuuk, só que a 5 graus de latitude sul. Na capital do Estado do Piauí que é Teresina no país maravilhoso chamado de Brasil.
Oh irmãozinho, agora é inverno em Minas Gerais, de manhã tá variando entre 4 e 8°c, e já tá intakavel, eu não sei você, mas eu acho que eu literalmente morreria de frio kkkkk
First time I've seen Greenlanders as a distinct indigenous people with their own unique & deep-rooted culture. Usually its all beleagered, half-frozen blubber fisherman surrounded by melting glaciers
@@omnomnom11122Proto-Eskimo cultures like the Saqqaq were present in Greenland as far back as 2500 BCE, followed by the Dorset in 500 BCE. What you may be thinking about are the Thule, which didn't arrive until 1000 CE.
Those apartment buildings went up in the 1960s and early 1970s, not the 1950s. The City would love to tear them down, but because of our housing problem in terms of lack of housing they won’t. Nuuk has around 130 kilometers of road. I disagree about renting a car. We have lots of cars in town and if you live in the outer areas of the city, a car is a wonderful convenience. Sure we have a great bus system, but renting a car for a couple of days is a great way to get around and really see all of Nuuk. The city is way too big nowadays to cover only on foot.
Planning to go there in July, what are your recommendations? could you help me out a bit? What to see and if we plan to go on a boat trip can we book there or we do have to book something ahead? thank you
Cuantos habitantes tiene en la actualidad? Hay previstos planes de viviendas para paliar esa situación ? Gracias, Saludos desde Santa Fe Argentina ( ayer con 37 grados de calor).
ugh such a beautiful city, hope to visit one day, shame there are no low-cost carriers flying there because as a student it's a tad too expensive for me :(
I hope you do. It took me many years before I could afford the trip. I'd still swap being a young penniless student for being a fifty-something though :)
Not just Nuuk. Folk like me from Northern UK love going to London and freaking them out by saying, “Hello” Seriously though. Loved this video. Somewhere I would love to visit 👍
Haha, no. I couldn't go for travel obscura as that was too similar to atlas obscura so I had to tweak it. Think of it as travel to "more obscure" destinations 🙂
@@TravelObscurer Yes. Camper Obscura , had a periscope for , looking around outside . (Possibly for spying on me , through a first floor window!) I went in it once, to see it in action. It was a pretty clever invention. Of my crafty neighbours. I lacked the wit, to borrow it yet . Or use it , to it's full potential . Sure, secret destinations might be more valuable . Just like the application of secret technologies.
Would love to come here.Have been to lceland,and l love these countries.lf l had the money l'd be over here like a shot!! Beats the UK anyday! Great vid mate.Very informative👍❤️😃
Yep. One of the highest suicide rates in the world. A case of the grass seems greener in Greenland....until it is dark and covered by snow, that is.@@wrghty
I remember learning that Greenland 🇬🇱 was not actually uninhabited. I was told the people's of Greenland won't survive into 21st Century. Now, Greenland seems to be known for the people's who are truly-part of the Indigenous Cultures. Survival is a beautiful things!!! 😍🇵🇭
Woow what a city👌👌 Scandic Danish style , some for my eye looks also like in Norway and all with that natives style flavor. And everything in and surrounded by beautiful nature. Looks like a special place😎 And no North America style there, intresting🤓
um. What is beautiful about a silly generalisation? Lots of communities in Europe care for each other. I have lived in several in different countries within Europe.
Clearly this man never been to europe and pulling shit out of his ass. If you need to talk shit about other cultures to feel better about your own, then you have a problem.
Jeez, such a beautiful country overwhelmed by stark architecture that looks like the worst of Ikea and the Soviet era. Nuuk needs a shower of natural curves and curls, flora and fauna. Someone please rescue the nation with a Greenland version of Art Noveau.
All Northern Europe is like this. You demand luxury like it's a Florida or France of 19th century or something. Quality architecture demands huge excess of money
@@TravelObscurerLoads of lies, sugarcoating a corrupt abusive political elite! Shame on you! Aren't skyrocketing suicidal rates or widespread sexual abuse to be taken seriously? 😳🤮
The dispersion of the Inuit is crazy, not only did the badasses claim all of Greenland, Northern Québec, all of Nunavut, the north coasts of NWT and The Yukon, but a good chunk of Eastern Russia as well. Wow!
I was kind of surprised at 2:19 Just looking at a map of how big Greenland is. (for example, compared to England) and how small the population is, and then you see all these large apartment buildings. I thought super big apartment buildings, are usually when there’s when there’s not enough land, for everyone they have homes. (with so much land there you can build connected grow town houses give everyone some sense of their own front yard and backyard)
It's efficient, stacking homes means less roofing. Sharing walls means less insulation and heating. 1950s technology means big central boilers. I imagine building materials and fuel are expensive. I agree though that it's sad and unimaginative, but it's practical in a horrible way.
@@mgjk Just because they have plenty of land doesn't mean it's cheap to build there. The apartment blocks are also a cheaper way to construct housing since housing projects are expensive in Greenland.
@@mgjkThanks for that information. If Greenland has a population density of: like one person for every 100 square miles (I don’t know, I’m just too tired to look that up) I would think one of the great selling points about living in Greenland would be like everyone has many acres, & farms to themselves. like people in the 1700s and 1800s in America, in the west USA. My dads home in a working class fairly densely populated area in the Bronx, New York, and he had a decent size front yard and backyard, (then these apartment dwellers in Greenland) - Well, at first he lived in an Italian section of Harlem in Manhattan, NY (& of course he live in apartment there) Then they relocated to the sprawling suburbs of the Bronx, NY after World War II
@@MikeCee7Most of Greenland is covered in an Arctic icecap kilometres thick. Most of what isn't under the ice is rugged mountains and fjords. It's beautiful in a challenging way but if you watch one of the videos that take you on a tour of Nuuk or one of the other towns you can see how little flat land there is for building. Houses are scattered all over hillsides. The present work extending Nuuk airport to take jets has required a tremendous amount of blasting to remove rock and create level ground. The far south of the country does have a small area of farming land and there is some prospect of growing more of their food requirements locally.
Loved the video! Your audio needs some help though, lots of wind noise present in the audio recorded outside. You can mitigate the worst of this with a roll off frequencies below around 80hz to cut out some of the unwanted rumble of the wind. Cheers!
I just found your channel and hit “subscribe” what great and professional videos! Do you star film and edit all yourself?? or do you have some travelling companions or any help?
Everything has to be sailed to that end of the World.. Business are controlled by the corrupt Government like North Korea.. Just pay and look happy.. 😴🤷🏼
Em...the Inuit had forced out the Norse who came before them, though there had been ancient cultures who once lived there previously and died out. Wht start history where you chose?
@@TravelObscurerYou ought to be deeply ashamed of spreading Greenlands racist lies! There were NO forced Christianisation! Greenland wasn't isolated! How would you house thousands of people with no existential basis, in such a gigantic merciless nature? Donate a house and polar bear for each family?? Arrogant clueless clown! 🤡😴😴
Somebody should one day do some aerial film footage of some of the fjords around Cape Farewell. These can put most of the Norwegian fjords to shame. Years ago, on a merchant ship, the mv "Arctic", hauling zinc concentrate out of Nanisivik, on northern Baffin Island to Antwerp, Belgium. On the inbound part of the voyage, we would 'round Cape Farewell and head north into Baffin Bay, and then to Lancaster Sound and on to Nanisivik. On some of the nautical charts, of the vicinity of southern Greenland, there were fjords, stretching over 100 miles inland, with shear walls reaching upwards of 4000 feet. Empty, completely empty - no village, no outposts - nothing. Awe-inspiring and absolutely wonderful. So, can some rich oligarch or otherwise, use his private jet and have a professional cinematographer film these areas and post on YT??!! (It would be a 'gift' to humanity).
That would be an incredible film. I would live uo ssil atound Cape Farewell. To be fair, the fjords around Ilulissat and Nuuk aren't bad either. I understand that the fjords of North East Greenland are also spectacular.
Beautiful nature, great history, and outstanding native sculptures! Love to visit one day! However, will Greenlanders abandon Danish and Greenlandish to English? I noticed signs in English everywhere there! I've even seen a video where children are preferring English to Greenlandish or Danish! That sounds like bad news to the future of the country because, on one hand, adult Greenlanders embrace their language and traditions and want to become independent from Denmark. On the other hand, their children are quickly moving to the Anglosphere! I think Greenlanders should make sure their children stick to their language to preserve their culture before is too late! Now, as an international language, English is important to learn, but Greenlanders should make Greenlandish their official language while Danish and English should be electives before they become independent! Thanks for sharing!
Well that is all fine and large...but the young people need opportunities and English opens up the world to them. It would be very wrong (and frankly impossible) to stop that.
@@lechatelYou did not read my comment well! I talked about Greenlanders saving their native language while teaching Danish or English to their children as electives! That is, I did not say anything about "eliminating English" as you wrongly missread! Now, even if Inuit parents decided to eliminate English as an elective, that would definitely not deprive their children from life or career opportunities because they would still have Danish to reach their goals! Now, knowing English is obviously helpful in several fields, but you make it sound as if there are no opportunities outside of the Anglosphere, which is totally wrong! There are millions of people in the world who do not speak a word of English and yet they are extremely successful in their own language like the Chileans, the Spaniards, the Austrians, the Chinese, the Japanese, etc! Therefore, quite the opposite of what you stated: allowing Inuit children to lose their native language in favor of another would be a cultural disaster! And yes, there are methods and tools to prevent that from happening and Inuits just have to get organized to raise awareness and proceed accordingly before is too late!
If you think Christianity is destructive then you should think again. Christianity pretty much built that city and improved the lives of its inhabitants
Thank you. I’m 80 years very fit and if my family situation will allow it I will take the time to visit Greenland and Nuuk. So my god give me some more time to full fill my dreams
Best of luck!
Have you seen Italy yet? I would highly recommend Italy, especially Venice, Portofino, Rome, especially Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Hi, oh yes I have traveled the world. Love Italy a lot, but going to Greenland has something to do with my love to Natives who were colonized and
Robbed iIdentity and more. And now being 80 my wish is that Greenland will be free. Young people will be proud of what they are.
Now corporate companies should try again to take away what belongs to the Greenlanders. It will happen, it my take some more years but
Change is coming. My god bless Greenland.
The city looks so cozy and beautiful
As a person that lives in Greenland it’s beautiful but there has been a lot of things going on for everyone there’s murders fire abusive people dying people just a lot. And to prove that I live in Greenland if you wanna say Cool in Greenland you say Torrak😊
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@@Leahshappy even though Greenland has lots of social issues, I still love it and probably always will ❤. I think its the most beautiful country in the whole world and its beauty brings me to tears sometimes 😍. Asavakkit Kalaallit Nunaat.
@@ifjchsiwocjcjs4378Instead of crying, how about demanding your lazy corrupt Politicians to handle their well paid responsibilities?
You can't go on for ever in a spiral of alcohol, abuse and crime..
Good luck ✌🏻🇩🇰
the people are very beautiful!
Thank you for your time making these videos! Great work! Please keep on producing!
I remember learning that Greenland was not actually uninhabited. I was told the people of Greenland won't survive into 21st century. Now Greenland seems to be known for the people who are truly part of the Indigenous cultures. Survival is a beautiful thing!
It's a self governing country now with some prospect of full independence. I hope they don't rush into that because an independent state with fewer than 60,000 people would be very vulnerable. At present, while ruling themselves and not in the EU they have the protection of a NATO and EU member.
Give it another 50 years and they are gone.
Only if European countries do the same, having their contries for their indigenous people. Oh wait, that's racism.
Denmark is too small a country to ever be willing to give up Greenland. I would consider that a major loss if I was Danish.
They would’ve been gone without the help of the Danish, funny how people ignore that
One of the best short visit cards of Nuuk I've ever watched ! Tanks !!
Thanks!
Those apartments are awful ,surely people deserve better from mineral wealth.
It's one of the last great wilderness countries if I had some serious money I would live there in a heart beat Respect the local people and traditions
Demolish the horrible apartments and ask a local architect to design a tribute to the Native People based on innuit tradition and culture knock that European shit down
definitely
@@billie6399 big admiration and respect from Ireland 🇮🇪
Some times you just gotta kill your baby girls and old people because life in the high arctic is so brutal. We should respect their culture.
Don't take my word for it though, look up Inuit eldercide and gendercide.
Yeah right, study ongoing crime, rape, suicide and unemployment statistics from that desolate tax paid country before romanticising what you have no clue about!
Seems like a great place, the old ways or traditional ways that give Greenland it's sense of community is something I hope they keep hold of, maybe the rest of us can learn from them.
Their architecture is terrible. Where’s the stones? Where’s the bricks? Where’s the pillars, the marble, the theaters, the hotels, the memorial buildings, the giant churches, the architecturally significant buildings? Nuuk has nothing but cheap 1-3 story crapstructures.
Greenland has no weapons of mass destruction but they do infact have 1 nuuk
Simply amazing and beautiful,thank you.
it really reminds me of being home in Newfoundland. i would absolutely would love to visit both Greenland and Iceland
There are definite similarities of landscape and architecture with Newfoundland - probably why I can't wait to get back there.
Your shortest journey from Canada to Nuuk would probably be via Reykjavik. There are Icelandic Dash 8 flights to Nuuk from there.
In response to the many negative comments about the comment in the film about the legacy of the missionary Hans Egede I would like to point out that this is not my personal view - it is the established Greenlandic view as expressed to visitors of the National Museum.
From the Greenland National Museum & Archive website:-
“The last 50 years have brought new perspectives on the significance of Hans Egede's influence on Greenland. In 1971, Greenland's 250th anniversary was celebrated in different ways, but largely expressed a very romantic notion of Hans Egede as a father-type figure to Greenland and the country's union with Christendom. Now in 2021, Hans Egede's arrival is seen in a more nuanced way. The focus is on reconciling a complicated past with the benefit of perspective and a more thoughtful understanding of the enduring influence of Christianity on Greenlandic society and culture. This includes changing political perspectives that have in recent years shifted public expressions of the 1721 anniversary from jubilant affairs to more respectful observances.”
Your anti-christian bigotry transpires from the very first minute of your video. Worse: you do not want to take responsibility for your own views (trying to deflect it on those of the National Museum). The problem is that the views expressed by the National museum are those of their director, a rabid anti-christian far leftist named Daniel Thorleifsen (who happens to have a very interesting twitter feed btw). Since these anti-christian views are in line with yours, you made it a central element of your video thinking that no-one would notice.
Southern Greenland was uninhabited when the Norse first settled there in the 10th Century. The Norse were either wiped out or absorbed by the Inuit settlers centuries later, and Egede was trying to find them. Egede tried very hard to help the Inuit. The "established" Greenlandic view is largely just spoon-fed propaganda from China and Russia as they look to conquer Greenland to aid in their goal of destroying America and other nations. Greenland is on course to become a vassal of China, and we can see from Sri Lanka that China will be much worse to Greenland than Denmark.
It doesn’t matter if this is your personal view or not. What matters is that you’re using this narrative in your video. You won’t get out of this that easy.
@@MikeDecky 😭Wahhh someone isn't representing a colonial influence as unambiguously good for the colonized. I'm gonna throw a tantrum. 😭
@@kriskolish6423eah, the revelations of how missionaries in Canada ended up being little more than jailors with side job of torturers and murderers of aboriginal children has changed the 60s and 70s fiction of them being saviors of souls. The interaction in Greenland probably had less victims, but the respect level for Inuit customs and beliefs was likely one of disdain there as well.
This popped up on my feed so took a look.. brilliant video of a stunning place. Instant subscribe 😊
Thanks - really appreciate the feedback. Hope you like the forthcoming films on Svalbard.
Unusual travelogue. Factual, informative, low key, beautiful video.
Thank you. I try to take a very different approach to most of the travel films on TH-cam.
Going next year- can’t wait!
I just landed at your place with the Microsoft Flight Simulator - as an emergency landing exercise on an intended flight from Kevlavik to Boston/Massachusetts. Ok, the Boeing 737 didn't quite manage to come to a stop on the short runway, but I'm there now.
Thanks to your video, I now know how beautiful it is here and that Nuuk is the capital of Greenland.
Thank you! The current runway is definitely too short for a 737!
@@TravelObscurer Yes, I saw an animation of the new airstrip that it will be finished in 2024.
@@Heiko2506 I think it's finnished the runway now
Greenlandair reference: th-cam.com/video/0nPm-6PRGdo/w-d-xo.html...
though I do not believe they run any of the big Jets there yet.
Only an American could write something like that 😂😂😂😂
@@boobie17 a stupid german also 😅
Thank you very much for this nice and very informative video!🙂💛👍
Short and excellent insight! Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback!
Nuuk looks beautiful. This is the first time I have ever seen a video about Greenland.
Fr its so beautiful like, I feel like all my stress would just melt away, it's so cozy and beautiful.
Thank you. Nice to have a glimpse into a world that I have never and may never see en vivo.
Wow, looks like the Irish coasts too, Nuuk!!🤓☘️☘️👍🤩
Yeah
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Love Republic Ireland.
less heroin
Delightful video , thank you ✌️🙂🇨🇦
Thank you. You're welcome!
Nice video ! gave me a good view of the capital of greenland so far !
Wonderful place isn't it! I visited earlier this year (in May), would go back anytime!
Right now in Nuuk. It’s kinda…. Hard “I live in Greenland “
No it isn't! Even UN demanded Greenland should start taking care of their most vulnerable people! Guess why..
Thank you for sharing - great video!
Thanks for the great feedback
It’s so beautiful, beautiful and green there.
Beautiful country and beautiful people ❤
Is not a country is a territory of denmark
@@rockyhd5gangxd784 You meant Kingdom of denmark?
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Wrong, Greenland was inhabited by Europeans before the Inuit crossed over from modern-day Canada
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you.
Hi! Im from 🇷🇺, but I’m Greek
First heard about Greenland in a game "Penumbra"
When i was playing, I read and heard different facts about Inuit culture and history, especially about Tuurngait(the game is about him)
When I hear Greenland, I feel a little mystery or something… I don’t know
I really want to visit your country, and this gorgeous and beautiful city!
And I’d like to mention, I like how Inuit girls look) I find them beautiful
Beautiful ! 👍🏼 thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Jonathan your videos are brilliant! I think Greenland is the much more interesting to visit than Iceland and a lot less busy too!
Thank you so much! Yes, Parts of Iceland have become over-touristed I think. Hopefully that will not occur in Greenland.
Inuit / arctic circle indigineous (?) Art always has such a trippy, surreal, & almost kinda spacey/sci-fi
I have seen some really great stuff, luckily, lol, and you were kind enough to show me some more! I MUST visit iceland, greenland, etc as well as some of the smaller WAYYY north atlantic/arctic se😂a islands they all seem so cool & magical
What is the easiest and cheapest, or should I say relatively inexpensive way to get to Greenland and back from either Iceland or Denmark, not sure if there is a Ferry service or not? Cheers, Great video.
There is no ferry service and cruise operators are extremely expensive. The most affordable way to get there is flying on Air Greenland from either Copenhagen or Keflavik (Iceland)
@@TravelObscurer I think at this rate I would fly from Iceland need to visit as well. Thanks
Reykjavik to Kulusuk
Thank you very much about this wonderful information of Greenland(Sabir Hussain from Georgia)
Outstanding content
I find it funny they keep saying Nuuk is a big city, meanwhile the population is ~20K.
My village is just 750 people. So 20K is big compared to that.
For a place that has Green in its name, it sure looks cold there.
The Vikings swapped the names of Greenland and Iceland to confuse travellers
Wow! can't wait to travel there. Is beauiful, bet have many fisherman there! Awesome video brother!
Wow those apartment blocks remind me of old Soviet apartment blocks in Kazakhstan!
Without much sun shine and with the cold - it sounds like a miserable existance to me, so myself I'd rather go to the tropics.
Hey great video! Any reason why you didn't bring up its rich Scandinavian heritage.
And what's up with calling it a colony? It's been a part of Scandinavian kingdoms for over a thousand years
Just a lack of time and resources. I was only in Nuuk for a couple of days whist on holiday with my wife. I just wanted to give a quick insight into what the town is like. Would love to have the time and money to make a longer more detailed film!
Moro em uma cidade onde a média de temperatura é de 28 graus celsius positivo e seria interessante conhecer uma cidade como Nuuk com temperatura tão diferente. Fiquei com vontade e curioso para desvendar as belezas naturais de Nuuk.
Do you live in Portugal?
@@imperialbeautee no. Incrível mas moro no mesmo fuso horário de Nuuk, só que a 5 graus de latitude sul. Na capital do Estado do Piauí que é Teresina no país maravilhoso chamado de Brasil.
Most people in Greenland also don't understand English.. 🤷🏼
Oh irmãozinho, agora é inverno em Minas Gerais, de manhã tá variando entre 4 e 8°c, e já tá intakavel, eu não sei você, mas eu acho que eu literalmente morreria de frio kkkkk
First time I've seen Greenlanders as a distinct indigenous people with their own unique & deep-rooted culture. Usually its all beleagered, half-frozen blubber fisherman surrounded by melting glaciers
The Scandinavians were in Greenland before the inuits. "indigenous "
@@omnomnom11122Proto-Eskimo cultures like the Saqqaq were present in Greenland as far back as 2500 BCE, followed by the Dorset in 500 BCE. What you may be thinking about are the Thule, which didn't arrive until 1000 CE.
Those apartment buildings went up in the 1960s and early 1970s, not the 1950s. The City would love to tear them down, but because of our housing problem in terms of lack of housing they won’t. Nuuk has around 130 kilometers of road.
I disagree about renting a car. We have lots of cars in town and if you live in the outer areas of the city, a car is a wonderful convenience. Sure we have a great bus system, but renting a car for a couple of days is a great way to get around and really see all of Nuuk.
The city is way too big nowadays to cover only on foot.
Planning to go there in July, what are your recommendations? could you help me out a bit? What to see and if we plan to go on a boat trip can we book there or we do have to book something ahead? thank you
Cuantos habitantes tiene en la actualidad ? Saludos dese Argentina.
How realistic is it to tear then down, once Mitsimmavik and Siorarsiorfik are fully built and settled?
Cuantos habitantes tiene en la actualidad? Hay previstos planes de viviendas para paliar esa situación ? Gracias, Saludos desde Santa Fe Argentina ( ayer con 37 grados de calor).
Would love to know what the song is that plays periodically through this video.
So beautiful
its like Ireland , In Dublin 90% of the time you can talk to people on a street and they wont think you're crazy like the crocodile dundee man lol
That's what I love about Dublin!
The man at the end said that, more or less, they're authentic. Unlike Europe. I'm afraid he's getting more right with the years.
Well be speaking arabic in a few years u fortunatey
ugh such a beautiful city, hope to visit one day, shame there are no low-cost carriers flying there because as a student it's a tad too expensive for me :(
I hope you do. It took me many years before I could afford the trip. I'd still swap being a young penniless student for being a fifty-something though :)
Hopefully when Nuuk airport extends its runway, low cost carriers will finally be able to fly there cos their jets can't land on the current runway.
You can get to Nuuk directly from Reykjavik using a Dash 8 turbojet aircraft but it's not low cost.
I visited in the 90 ,s will have a beer on 21/6. Have great memories. Greeting from Australia😅.
Very interesting... What a world
Very interesting, also whats the girl’s @ at the beginning?
She cute!
Not just Nuuk. Folk like me from Northern UK love going to London and freaking them out by saying, “Hello”
Seriously though. Loved this video. Somewhere I would love to visit 👍
I’d love to visit Greenland. I’m too broke to travel that far.
Hey. I live in sweden and im so fascinated by greenland.
❤ Why the name Travel Obscurer ? Was the name inspired by a Camper Van known as Camper Obscurer ? ❤
Haha, no. I couldn't go for travel obscura as that was too similar to atlas obscura so I had to tweak it. Think of it as travel to "more obscure" destinations 🙂
@@TravelObscurer Yes. Camper Obscura , had a periscope for , looking around outside .
(Possibly for spying on me , through a first floor window!)
I went in it once, to see it in action. It was a pretty clever invention. Of my crafty neighbours. I lacked the wit, to borrow it yet . Or use it , to it's full potential .
Sure, secret destinations might be more valuable . Just like the application of secret technologies.
Would love to come here.Have been to lceland,and l love these countries.lf l had the money l'd be over here like a shot!!
Beats the UK anyday!
Great vid mate.Very informative👍❤️😃
Thanks Melvyn. Yes, there's something about the far north that really appeals.
It's the most depressive & suicidal country. You don't even get any sun during the winter, it'll be like evening-night time all day every day
Yep. One of the highest suicide rates in the world. A case of the grass seems greener in Greenland....until it is dark and covered by snow, that is.@@wrghty
July 14 2024 here today in Nuuk Greenland! 😊
The people seem awesome but I bet it gets super cold.
In a few years the place won’t be cold nomore.
I remember learning that Greenland 🇬🇱 was not actually uninhabited. I was told the people's of Greenland won't survive into 21st Century. Now, Greenland seems to be known for the people's who are truly-part of the Indigenous Cultures. Survival is a beautiful things!!! 😍🇵🇭
You are a bot. You just repeated what was already said by another comment.
Man. It looks great...the USA should buy this island!
The US really shouldn't. It'll be ruined within a day
Woow what a city👌👌
Scandic Danish style , some for my eye looks also like in Norway and all with that natives style flavor. And everything in and surrounded by beautiful nature. Looks like a special place😎
And no North America style there, intresting🤓
1:33: And we, the Kujatamiut, are left out of it!!😢 😂 We are the Greenlanders from the far south, in the Cape Farewell district.😊
Thank you for this comment now I’m going to do research on this district I’d never heard of before! Super cool
This was so beautiful
Edit: "we are not like Europe... We still take care of each other" lol 6:30
um. What is beautiful about a silly generalisation? Lots of communities in Europe care for each other. I have lived in several in different countries within Europe.
Clearly this man never been to europe and pulling shit out of his ass. If you need to talk shit about other cultures to feel better about your own, then you have a problem.
hi im from greenland sismiut
Must visit Sisimut next time I'm in Greenland!
@@TravelObscurer yea
👍🍀 Nice Video!
Jeez, such a beautiful country overwhelmed by stark architecture that looks like the worst of Ikea and the Soviet era. Nuuk needs a shower of natural curves and curls, flora and fauna. Someone please rescue the nation with a Greenland version of Art Noveau.
All Northern Europe is like this. You demand luxury like it's a Florida or France of 19th century or something. Quality architecture demands huge excess of money
I WISH YOU TALKED MORE ABOUT THE FOOD AND WHY NO FLOWERS NOT A GREEN PLANT AND ABOUT THE HOUSES
There’s plenty of flowers on Greenland, but they are tiny 🙂
PEACE. Greenland and Denmark. 🌍🇺🇳🌎
Lovely video…thx 👏
Thank you!
@@TravelObscurerLoads of lies, sugarcoating a corrupt abusive political elite!
Shame on you!
Aren't skyrocketing suicidal rates or widespread sexual abuse to be taken seriously? 😳🤮
Curly from the Three Stooges was very fond of this city. He would routinely invoke its name in patterns of three
Kalaallit Nunaat sounds kind of like Kalliit nunnat which in finnish means expensive nuns.
@@Alexandros.Mograine - ehm… how much for a nun in Finland?
Totally dynamic, yes.
I live in Greenland too😅
Is it nice
@@DonutGuy-2000 kinda..?
How about the classic carsene in Nuuk?
@@brunoheggli2888 whats a classic carsene? I have never heard of it:)
Is English the primary language or is it Greenlandic? I’m so fascinated by the culture 😂 -Kentucky American
A country divided. The other half is the province of Nunavut in Canada.
The dispersion of the Inuit is crazy, not only did the badasses claim all of Greenland, Northern Québec, all of Nunavut, the north coasts of NWT and The Yukon, but a good chunk of Eastern Russia as well. Wow!
i really want to go!
I would love to know more about how the indigenous interacted and intermarried with the Nordic Vikings etc.
I was kind of surprised at 2:19 Just looking at a map of how big Greenland is. (for example, compared to England) and how small the population is, and then you see all these large apartment buildings.
I thought super big apartment buildings, are usually when there’s when there’s not enough land, for everyone they have homes.
(with so much land there you can build connected grow town houses give everyone some sense of their own front yard and backyard)
It's efficient, stacking homes means less roofing. Sharing walls means less insulation and heating. 1950s technology means big central boilers. I imagine building materials and fuel are expensive. I agree though that it's sad and unimaginative, but it's practical in a horrible way.
@@mgjk Just because they have plenty of land doesn't mean it's cheap to build there. The apartment blocks are also a cheaper way to construct housing since housing projects are expensive in Greenland.
@@mgjkThanks for that information.
If Greenland has a population density of: like one person for every 100 square miles (I don’t know, I’m just too tired to look that up)
I would think one of the great selling points about living in Greenland would be like everyone has many acres, & farms to themselves. like people in the 1700s and 1800s in America, in the west USA.
My dads home in a working class fairly densely populated area in the Bronx, New York, and he had a decent size front yard and backyard, (then these apartment dwellers in Greenland)
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Well, at first he lived in an Italian section of Harlem in Manhattan, NY
(& of course he live in apartment there)
Then they relocated to the sprawling suburbs of the Bronx, NY after World War II
@@MikeCee7Most of Greenland is covered in an Arctic icecap kilometres thick. Most of what isn't under the ice is rugged mountains and fjords. It's beautiful in a challenging way but if you watch one of the videos that take you on a tour of Nuuk or one of the other towns you can see how little flat land there is for building. Houses are scattered all over hillsides. The present work extending Nuuk airport to take jets has required a tremendous amount of blasting to remove rock and create level ground. The far south of the country does have a small area of farming land and there is some prospect of growing more of their food requirements locally.
@@rais1953 Thanks for that information.
nnever change, never change
Hey im from nordgreenland Qasigiannguit live now in Danmark try to nordgreenland in sommer
And who's paying your living in our country?
Why don't you share the truth about corruption and social misery in Greenland?
Nothing to be proud of..
@@OmmerSysselChill.
Loved the video! Your audio needs some help though, lots of wind noise present in the audio recorded outside. You can mitigate the worst of this with a roll off frequencies below around 80hz to cut out some of the unwanted rumble of the wind. Cheers!
I have a much better audio set up now than when that film was made 2 years ago. Thanks for the feedback.
The girl at the beginning is super pretty
It reminds me of an ordinary city in Northern Russia
The girl at 0:26 is gorgeous
No trees ?
I just found your channel and hit “subscribe” what great and professional videos! Do you star film and edit all yourself?? or do you have some travelling companions or any help?
It's just me. Thank you for the feedback. Really appreciated!
@@TravelObscurer respect ✊🏻
Plenty of hotels? prices?
Not many hotels and all quite expensive. They are all listed on Tripadvisor.
Everything has to be sailed to that end of the World.. Business are controlled by the corrupt Government like North Korea..
Just pay and look happy.. 😴🤷🏼
Em...the Inuit had forced out the Norse who came before them, though there had been ancient cultures who once lived there previously and died out. Wht start history where you chose?
Aye but have ye been tae Newfoundland?
Aye, I have. Love it and hope to return soon!
@@TravelObscurer 👍🇨🇦
Can't tell you how much I enjoyed this.
Have a massive interest in Nuiuk.
Husar
Ant p uk Geography teacher retired
Thank you so much for the feedback! Plenty more films coming this year - as soon as I get past my heart operation!
@@TravelObscurer Good luck with that
God bless take care
Ant p
@@TravelObscurerYou ought to be deeply ashamed of spreading Greenlands racist lies!
There were NO forced Christianisation!
Greenland wasn't isolated!
How would you house thousands of people with no existential basis, in such a gigantic merciless nature?
Donate a house and polar bear for each family??
Arrogant clueless clown! 🤡😴😴
Greenland , the forgotten part of North America !
Good job
Those statues are nightmare fuel!
Somebody should one day do some aerial film footage of some of the fjords around Cape Farewell. These can put most of the Norwegian fjords to shame.
Years ago, on a merchant ship, the mv "Arctic", hauling zinc concentrate out of Nanisivik, on northern Baffin Island to Antwerp, Belgium. On the inbound part of the voyage, we would 'round Cape Farewell and head north into Baffin Bay, and then to Lancaster Sound and on to Nanisivik. On some of the nautical charts, of the vicinity of southern Greenland, there were fjords, stretching over 100 miles inland, with shear walls reaching upwards of 4000 feet.
Empty, completely empty - no village, no outposts - nothing. Awe-inspiring and absolutely wonderful.
So, can some rich oligarch or otherwise, use his private jet and have a professional cinematographer film these areas and post on YT??!! (It would be a 'gift' to humanity).
That would be an incredible film. I would live uo ssil atound Cape Farewell. To be fair, the fjords around Ilulissat and Nuuk aren't bad either. I understand that the fjords of North East Greenland are also spectacular.
Are you sure about thoose blocks being from the 50's - it looks like from around 1970.
Definitely 1950s.
Weather forecast today is cold, cold again tomorrow, and even colder in the upcoming days. Haha
Beautiful nature, great history, and outstanding native sculptures! Love to visit one day! However, will Greenlanders abandon Danish and Greenlandish to English? I noticed signs in English everywhere there! I've even seen a video where children are preferring English to Greenlandish or Danish! That sounds like bad news to the future of the country because, on one hand, adult Greenlanders embrace their language and traditions and want to become independent from Denmark. On the other hand, their children are quickly moving to the Anglosphere! I think Greenlanders should make sure their children stick to their language to preserve their culture before is too late! Now, as an international language, English is important to learn, but Greenlanders should make Greenlandish their official language while Danish and English should be electives before they become independent! Thanks for sharing!
Well that is all fine and large...but the young people need opportunities and English opens up the world to them. It would be very wrong (and frankly impossible) to stop that.
@@lechatelYou did not read my comment well! I talked about Greenlanders saving their native language while teaching Danish or English to their children as electives! That is, I did not say anything about "eliminating English" as you wrongly missread! Now, even if Inuit parents decided to eliminate English as an elective, that would definitely not deprive their children from life or career opportunities because they would still have Danish to reach their goals! Now, knowing English is obviously helpful in several fields, but you make it sound as if there are no opportunities outside of the Anglosphere, which is totally wrong! There are millions of people in the world who do not speak a word of English and yet they are extremely successful in their own language like the Chileans, the Spaniards, the Austrians, the Chinese, the Japanese, etc! Therefore, quite the opposite of what you stated: allowing Inuit children to lose their native language in favor of another would be a cultural disaster! And yes, there are methods and tools to prevent that from happening and Inuits just have to get organized to raise awareness and proceed accordingly before is too late!
Never expected to find signs of brutalist architecture in Nuuk
Go there one day ❤
Theres a unspoken dark history and truth about this place that sends shivers down my spine. All will be revealed…
Please tell us!
Hes a salty atheist@@Carlosconga
If you think Christianity is destructive then you should think again. Christianity pretty much built that city and improved the lives of its inhabitants