{"id":459,"date":"2016-07-14T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=459"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:17:51","slug":"july-13-qaqortoq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/07\/14\/july-13-qaqortoq\/","title":{"rendered":"July 13: Qaqortoq"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Qaqortog,
Qaqortog, Greenland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We woke up to sunny weather in Qaqortoq, on the west coast of Greenland with over three thousand, mostly Inuit, inhabitants.<\/p>\n

No fancy cruise terminal here.\u00a0 We were ferried from our ship to shore with a tender, a life boat that does double duty in ports that have no docks large enough to support our cruise ship. \u00a0Qaqortoq is a colorful village, like most towns in northern climates.\u00a0 From Norway, to Iceland, to Greenland, houses are typically painted in very bright colors.<\/p>\n

\"Qaqortog
Qaqortog Houses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got off the tender and started walking uphill through the back streets.\u00a0 At the end there was mostly open rock and tundra, with cairns marking the best path up to the top of the hill.\u00a0 This time I had put on my hiking boots and left most of the cruise ship crowds behind.\u00a0 There were still about a dozen or so hikers from the cruise ship, but I took a different path up.\u00a0 At the top of the hill I was treated to panoramic views of nearby inlets, dotted with ice bergs and islands, and spectacular mountains in the background.\u00a0 Hiking in Greenland, what a treat!<\/p>\n

\"Qaqortog
Qaqortog Sailout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the end of the day the fog rolled in.\u00a0 It reminded me of the marine layer in LA.\u00a0 We sailed out of the harbor and into the fog.\u00a0 Overnight I heard the ship\u2019s horn through the fog.<\/p>\n

Photographs \u00a9 2016 P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We woke up to sunny weather in Qaqortoq, on the west coast of Greenland with over three thousand, mostly Inuit, inhabitants. No fancy cruise terminal here.\u00a0 We were ferried from our ship to shore with a tender, a life boat that does double duty in ports that have no docks large enough to support our … Continue reading “July 13: Qaqortoq”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}