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Hi All,

A new duploworld update is ready this time with Part Eight of my summer adventure.
And a post that will take you remarkably close to the end of the adventure.
We had transferred from Ilulissat to Kangerlussuaq the day before and this was our first full day.
The prehistoric Fiordbed

Was the first stop and was only located a relatively short hike away, so it was a natural attraction to go see.
This huge area of silt, was below actually located at the bottom of the fiord a loong loong time ago. and it is said that you are still able to find signs from back then in the silt.
The carvices made for some great photos though, just like the one above and walking around on what once used to be well below water was kind of interesting.
Reaching Ice again

In the afternoon we joined one of the turisty tours to Point 660, which is the easiest place to access the inland ice, because here it can be reached by car.
Well not exactly car we talk about large and very terrain going 4x4 trucks, but you can drive there and that is actually pretty unique in Greenland. Furthermore you access the ice in an area where there is not too much preassure on it, so it is a safe area of the ice. Downside is that there are no ice-wells and no carvices or other exciting stuff around
The road to the ice btw. was originally built by Volkswagen, for a number of years they had a test course for new cars up here on the inland ice. now the road is controlled by the gouvernment and a special permit is required to drive there, mostly to keep the environment around inland ice somewhat protected and to avoid turists in rental cars driving there on their own.
Walking the inland Ice

We had a little less than an hour for a quick stroll on the inland ice.
For me and I suspect my brother as well, it was kind of a let down compared to the very interesting experience we had earlier in the week where we got to feel the inland ice in a totally different way.
I suspect it is a great experience for turists comming here, but when you have experienced it like we had earlier, it really was a let down. but where there is snow, there is room for a...
Snowball fight

So we managed to have fun afterall and the indland ice is still a very beautiful place, so we could not really complain, but what we did was I guess not what turists typically do on the inland ice
We even managed to find a tine Inland Ice waterstream, but as further north, it had already frozen over.
Frozen water stream

Miss Duplo again was with us and it was great to have her around again and she really enjoyed the trip, so I guess it all comes down to background and previous experiences.
When we eturned it was alte in the evening and we had lots of plans to make for the following day, a day that got exciting in more ways than one and more than made up for this first day in Kangerlussuaq.
rounding off the post is a photo of,
Mis Duplo and the Inland Ice

Next up is "Part IX - Mountain Biking and the Russel Glacier" by far the most interesting day of the stay in Kangerlussuaq.

Thanks for reading and do take care

Thomas