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July 25, 2025 – Qaqortoq, Greenland – Cloudy – 49F

July 25, 2025 - Qaqortoq, Greenland

This will be our third time in this little town - and also the largest town - in Southern Greenland. There are only 3000 people - mostly Innuit - living in the town and the last time we were here, it was a Sunday and everything was closed. Qaqortoq means "white" in the Greenlandic language.

Qaqortog from Quest.

Today, we both ordered Room Service – I was up at 7 AM but fell back asleep and was awakened by the phone telling me that my breakfast was on its way.  I had Special K with milk, a waffle plus two egg OM.  Ellen had French Toast and two egg OM and some fruit.  The breakfast was good but it is hard to drink coffee in bed and the cups, in my opinion, though fancy and too small.  I am a big cup coffee person.  

This is a tender port but there are no tickets – just go down to level three and hop on.  We did just that.  

The tender ride is very short – Qaqortoq has a deep harbor but no pier – that means that Quest can anchor close to shore.  There was some sea ice in the water 

– we didn’t see any the last times we were here.  The seas were glass calm and getting on and off the tender was nothing.  The ride took about five minutes or less.  

Pictures of Quest are easy to take from the pier.

We can across a convienently close chuck of sea ice near the harbor.

As well as interesting rock with markings (a Rune Stone, maybe).

We checked out the gift shops and walked the main street and pretty much saw what we saw last time: The Main Square with it’s Mindenbronden Fountain, 

the red painted Church of the Saviour, 

and the Qaqortoq Museum with an interesting statue in the front lawn area.  

I couldn’t find out what the story on the statue was on Google.  We stayed in town for about an hour – I still couldn’t find either a cup of coffee or a cap from the place. 

We did however, take a nice picture of wildflowers along the road.

Because of its latitude, Qaqortoq has a similar climate to Northern Europe and is one of the "greenest" parts of Greenland.

We made our way back to the tender pier and with no line and the short ride, we were back on the ship in no time.  I went up to the Windows Café to get some seats.  Today, along with the scoops of tuna and egg salad, I had the Linguini in Tomato Sauce, which was the best pasta I have had on Azamara for a long time.  Maybe the combination of those items didn’t make sense but they were all good. 

After lunch, we found seats in the Living Room and stayed there until we went back to the room to get ready for dinner.  Tonight, there is a special Destination Showcase Dinner (the Food of Greenland) in the Patio.  We will have to see how Dinner works once we get up there.

Because of the cold, the Showcase Dinner was moved inside (this is the first Showcase Dinner that we have experienced on Azamara – something new).  There wasn’t a whole lot to eat on the menu but we both had the Teriyaki Salmon (not very Greenlandic) and the fish was really good.  The big dish was the soup – veggies mostly – that was being cooked at a separate table – I did not try it.

The Captain came on the PA system to indicate that weather conditions at our next port of call, Paamiut, would make tendering unsafe.  The fog, which we could already see outside, would not afford enough visibility to maneuver the tenders.  We would pass up this port and tomorrow would be a manufactured sea day.

Since we are doing the reverse itinerary as part of our back to back, we will catch this port on the way back to Reykjavik.

I ran into Martin before the show and told him that I would do a presentation tomorrow if needed. A phone call from Bernardo a bit later on confirmed that I would be on tomorrow.  I said the simplest thing would be to move all the talks up and then tack another one on at the end.

We went to the show (one show at 9 PM) and sat in our usual seat on the second level where the spots used to be (the spots are in the back of the venue now and the rest of the lighting is remotely driven).  The show tonight is “Club Crooner” and the singers and dancers did a great job with numbers by Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darrin.  Last time we saw this show both Michael Buble and Barry Manilow were included but not this time.  Even so, it was a good show. Pictures below.


By the time, we got back to the room, new Insiders had been printed and distributed. I would be on at 1 PM.

Not only is it foggy outside but windy with an unfriendly sea – the ship is rocking and rolling.

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