Small-Ship Expeditions
Embark on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with Margaret Atwood on Adventure Canada’s 2023 expedition, Iceland to Greenland: In the Wake of the Vikings.
© Dennis Minty
Since her childhood spent in the woods of Northern Ontario and Quebec, Margaret has been a passionate conservationist and a tireless advocate for birds.
A deep believer in the power of getting people out into nature, Margaret has been travelling as a staff member with Adventure Canada for twenty years.
© Luis Mora
Follow Erik the Red’s original route to explore this seldom-seen coastline, visiting important archaeological sites and modern Greenlandic communities along the way.
©Jessie Brinkman Evans
July 13 to July 25, 2023
From $4,695 to $12,995 USD
per person based on double occupancy
limited space available
*plus $624 USD fuel surcharge ($48 per day)
Explore the intimate, sublime passage called Ikerassuaq, or Prince Christian Sound. The stunning metamorphic geology here is part of the region’s Ketilidian mobile belt, formed 1.8 billion years ago by colliding continents. Transit in the shadow of crags more than a kilometre high and marvel at glittering glaciers that spit icebergs into the sea.
© Jessie Brinkman Evans
Visit the best-preserved Norse structure in Greenland, Hvalsey Church. It’s also the most eerie. In 1408 it hosted a wedding—the last recorded event before the Greenlandic Norse vanished. Visit this fjord-side ruin and join in the speculation.
© Jessie Brinkman Evans
Stroll through charming villages of colourful wooden homes, often surrounded by suburbs of barking sled dogs and racks of kayaks standing by the shore.
Watch hunters and fishers coming and going with fresh seal, reindeer, or locally caught cod.
© Dennis Minty
Sailing up Kangerlussuaq Fjord (Søndre Strømfjord) is a true polar pleasure. A whopping 190 kilometres long but just two klicks wide, this remarkable seaway is flanked all along by frosted peaks and glaciers. En route you’ll cross the Arctic Circle—an achievement few travellers can claim.
Search for teeming wildlife in Greenland’s rich Arctic waters.
Fin, humpback, and minke whales are all regularly spotted in the region and there are many more bird species to add to your life list.
© Dennis Minty
Founded in 1987, Adventure Canada is a family-run travel company specializing in small-ship expeditions to the world’s most beautiful and seldom visited coastlines.
