Kulusuk Walkabout

We walked from our hotel to Kulusuk Village, toured the village and back to our hotel in about two hours. The hotel desk person was our guide. Since we were the only people left at the hotel and we were all going for a walk, she had no need to stay at the hotel. She had been here for the summer.

I said that this is a challenging place to live. We learned a lot about that on our walk around the village.  

There are only four regular motor vehicles on Kulusuk but as you can see, they do have some alternate vehicles. Most of the people that we saw, however, were walking, like here.

This was another alternate vehicle. This person picked up a tourist at the harbor and loaded their luggage into this cart for the trip to their hotel.

The best part of our walk around Kulusuk Village was when we stopped to just enjoy the views, like this one.

The village does not have running water. They do, however, have a couple of water stations where people can get water for free. You can see it flowing out. The water is piped from a lake which is behind the low rock mountain that you see just to the right of the water station and across the harbor.

This facility was right next to the water station. It is a facility for both showers and laundry. Both are free to the people who live here. We looked inside and it's about as fancy as the outside that you see here.

This store was actually in Tasiilaq but they have one in Kulusuk too. It's their general store for everything that you can buy, and I mean everything. We were told not to take photos as the store got in trouble for selling food items with past use-by dates. I didn't take any food item photos. But look at all the things you can buy - and how few of each there are, with the possible exception of guns. In this photo, guns, shovels, carpets, computers, toys, chairs, pianos, mirrors, etc. 

This is a church that was built in 1908. It was built by the Danes from a ship that ran aground in the harbor. There is a small model ship hanging inside the church by the altar.

The need for housing sometimes leads to this. Our hotel manager is rebuilding a house. Due to shipping problems, he said he would have been far better off by just ordering a Prefabricated house with everything included in a shipping container. Every single item needed can be hard to acquire.

I wouldn't want anyone to think that Kulusuk has no culture. I saw this museum up on this hill. It was closed the day that we were here, but there it is.

Once more, the views that we had when we stopped and just looked around us were really quite fantastic.