Quark Expeditions Greenland Cruise Review

We recently travelled on Quark Expeditions’ Greenland Adventure: Explore by Sea, Land and Air trip onboard their ship, the Ultramarine to experience just how incredible their latest, groundbreaking itinerary really is. In our Quark Expeditions Greenland cruise review we break down every aspect of the tour and help you decide whether this journey is for you.

Staring out the porthole window at Greenland’s vast expanse of glacial ice as our plane flew into the remote village of Narsarsuaq was one of those ‘pinch me’ moments.

Greenland had always seemed so distant, so exotic and so mystical that it just didn’t feel real to actually be there.

Disembarking the aircraft onto the runway still felt like a dream, and if it wasn’t for the smiling crew from Quark Expeditions greeting us inside the terminal with a fleet of buses waiting to transport us to our ship we would have been positive that we’d wake up at any moment.

Only a few hours later we were standing on the Panorama deck of our luxury ship, sparkling wine in hand, navigating out of the narrow Greenlandic fjords towards a shimmering Arctic sunset.

This wasn’t a dream. As surreal as it seemed, our Greenland adventure was just getting started.

Travelling to the Arctic had been on our bucket list for as long as we could remember, and after multiple trips to Antarctica we knew that the next expedition for us had to be to the northern polar regions.

We had heard that it was a different world in the Arctic, and we couldn’t wait to experience it.

The landscapes were still epic, with towering peaks, enormous glaciers and jagged fjords to explore, but the Arctic had something the south lacked – culture and centuries’ worth of history.

Unlike the Antarctic, there were also entirely different ways to explore the Arctic, with multiple places to visit.

Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago, was perhaps the most popular destination thanks in large part to its abundant polar bear population.

The northern tip of Alaska attracted thousands of people every year, who made the most of highway that crossed the Arctic Circle to drive to this distant location.

Canada’s Northwest Passage was another region that history buffs sought to see, with the tales of Franklin and indigenous culture featured heavily in tours that venture through its rugged channels.

For us though Greenland was to be our first foray into the Arctic, and it didn’t…