Meet your private driver at the arrivals gate for a transfer to your hotel. Your English-speaking assistant is on hand to help with check-in, walk you through your welcome documents, and answer any questions before your Copenhagen stay begins.

A welcome package with your itinerary and any relevant documents or tickets required for your trip will be provided to you on your arrival in destination.

As a visitor in an unfamiliar city, you're often left with a plethora of restaurant options, and little insight to distinguish from one to the next. To assist, within your final trip documents, you’ll receive a supplemental composition showcasing our top restaurant suggestions for Copenhagen, as selected by Kensington Tours Destination Experts.

Meet your guide and driver at your hotel for a half-day private tour of Copenhagen with a visit to Rosenborg Castle. During the tour, you will see the city's most important sights including Kongens Nytorv, Royal Theatre, the colorful Nyhavn harbor district, Tivoli Gardens, Amalienborg Castle, Gefion Fountain, the Little Mermaid statue and the canal district with the National Museum, impressive Stock Exchange and Christiansborg Castle, home to the Danish Parliament. On your tour, you will also visit Rosenborg Castle, built by King Christian IV in the 17th century, which manages to be both ornate and cozy. On display are three centuries of royal furnishings, as well as the crown jewels. Entrance fee to Rosenborg Castle is included.

Meet your private driver at the hotel for a transfer to Copenhagen Airport.

Board a charter flight from Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq. Approximate travel time is 4 hours and 30 minutes.

On arrival in Kangerlussuaq, spend some time at leisure walking about the village independently. Admire the unique surrounding before embarking on your expedition cruise.

You'll be met by a cruise representative and directed to a shared port shuttle which will transfer you to the harbor. In small groups, the Zodiacs will take you to the expedition ship anchored half a mile out into the fjord.

Welcome aboard!

Take some time to get settled in to your stateroom, and to explore the length of your ship. Join your Expedition Leader and fellow cruisemates for a safety procedures demonstration before a welcome cocktail is served. After, the Captain will set sail and begin the passage through the 100-mile-long fjord, and out into the ocean.

Enjoy a wealth of amenities on board the Ocean Albatros. After an unforgettable expedition during the day, visit the Midnight Sun pool deck for a refreshing dip. Active explorers can visit the fully-equipped gym that boasts magnificent views, while those who love to shop should spend time at the Albatros Ocean Boutique. Stop by the Observation Lounge to celebrate your dream polar adventure, engage in conversation and relax while admiring the icy landscape of the polar regions. Nature lovers should make a habit of visiting the Bird's Eye Viewing Platform on Deck 9, while those eager to gain insight into their voyage will often be found at the Shackleton Lecture Room.

After breakfast, Ocean Albatros will arrive in the colourful city of Sisimiut. With around 5,400 inhabitants, it is Greenland’s second largest city, and one of the most interesting to explore. Paleo-Inuit people have lived around Sisimiut on and off since 2,500 BC, arriving in waves of migration from Arctic Canada. Remnants of turf huts and tent camps from this time can be found thorughout the vast back country which surrounds Sisimiut, including on Tele Island, a short pleasant walk from the harbour.

In 1756, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein established a colony here and called it “Holsteinsborg”. The oldest part of Sisimiut features town houses from this era, and the oldest dates back to 1756. One of the most culturally significant buildings is the Blue Church, built in 1775, now a landmark in the city’s historical museum district, arguably the best preserved in Greenland, and the perfect place to discover the Greenland of old.

Nowadays, Sisimiut is an important hub of education and industry, and local factories process the bulk of fish caught in the country (Greenland’s largest export). The fish processing plant in the harbour is one of the largest in Greenland, and among the most modern in the world. Just beyond the harbour sits the headquarters of KNI, the government-operated company which resupplies the many small settlements throughout Greenland - a vital service in a country with so many remote communties.

The busy city centre of Sisimiut offers a glimpse of what daily life is like in 21st-century Greenland, where seal hunts and smartphones collide. Take a refreshing stroll around SpedjesØ and take in an exhibition at the city's cultural centre Taseralik, explore the region's fascinating heritage at the city museum, or visit the Artists Workshop, where savvy shoppers can purchase traditional artworks direct from the artist. As evening falls, we will leave Sisimiut and set a course for the iceberg studded waters of Disko Bay (Qeqertarsuup Tunua) as Ocean Albatros sails for Qeqertarsuaq.

Nestled below Disko Island’s 1,000-metre mountains, we pull into port in a beautifully sheltered natural harbour. The place was aptly named Godhavn (“Good Harbour”) in Danish, while its Greenlandic name “Qeqertarsuaq” simply means “The Big Island”.

For most of Greenland’s modern history, Godhavn was the political and economic capital of North Greenland (while GodthÅb, now Nuuk, served this role in Southern Greenland). Its importance was due to the vast economic activity generated by whaling in Disko Bay, the preeminent Arctic industry since the 16th Century. As the whaling industry collapsed in the early 1900s, Godhavn lost its political status as all government functions moved south to GodthÅb/Nuuk, and the town was forced to reinvent itself, changing its name to Qeqertarsuaq in 1979 . Today, hunting and fishing are the main industries in Qeqertarsuaq, while tourism is becoming increasingly important. Ferries arrive in the town daily in summer from around Disko Bay, while in winter, access is only by helicopter from nearby Ilulissat.

Qeqertarsuaq’s sweeping red-and-black basalt mountains are radically different to the rolling granite hills which characterize much of Greenland, and provide a much richer soil. Despite being situated well above the Arctic Circle, this rich volcanic soil and the area’s mild microclimate make it much more green and lush compared to the rest of the country. Locals from all over Disko Bay come to the island in summer to hunt and collect angelica, herbs and mushrooms, and the stunning rock formations and black sand beaches attract visitors from all over the world. The town itself is typically Greenlandic, with quaint multicoloured homes, a splendid museum, and the unique octagonal church nicknamed 'God's Inkpot' (built in the Norwegian stave style). With excellent hiking opportunities, friendly locals, and a fascinating place in regional history, Qeqertarsuaq has a lot to offer.

On the afternoon of our day on Disko Island, we will reposition our vessel slightly to the east and launch our fleet of Zodiacs to explore the coast of Kuannit. Kuannit means 'Angelica' in Greenlandic, referring to the herb which grows abundantly on the rich south-facing slopes of the island. This stretch of coastline is one of Greenland's best kept secrets; with lush greenery dripping with water from mountain springs, spectacularly weird basalt rock formations riddled with caves and waterfalls, and plenty of sapphire-blue icebergs, this section of coast is one of the most spectacular in the Arctic.

From Kuannit, we will set a northerly course towards Uummannaq.

DAY 4

Uummannaq - the Greenlandic Riviera

The small city of Uummannaq sits perched precariously at the foot of a massive mountain. Like the rest of the area, here the mountain reaches vertically out of the icy depths, punching 1170m into the clear blue sky. Uummannaq mountain (translated from Greenlandic as “heart shaped”) is a true Greenlandic icon, and is a mecca for climbers who visit from all over the world. The city itself occupies a small area of flatter ground at the foot of the mountain, founded by Danish colonists in 1763 – some of the original buildings from this era can still be visited in the harbour-front area. More recently, Uummannaq has become famous in Scandinavia as the home of Santa Claus – the small turf house belonging to the festive hero himself can be reached via a pleasant (if challenging) 2-3h hike out of town.

As for many towns in Greenland however, the Inuit history of the area reaches back much further. At some point around the year 1600, a group of Inuit women and children died in the area (possibly in a boating accident). They were lovingly laid to rest in a rocky cairn under a cliff on the mainland overlooking Uummannaq at a site called Qilakitsoq, protected from the rain and snow, but exposed to the dry Arctic wind which mummified their bodies. They were rediscovered in 1972 by two brothers from Uummannaq (possibly on the advice of elders in Uummannaq, who had preserved rumours of the site for centuries). The mummies were taken to Denmark for analysis before being returned to Greenland, where today they rest in the National Museum in Nuuk. The small museum in Uummannaq did not have the facilities to house such an important find, but several artefacts such as clothing from the archaeological site (as well as a plethora of finds from before, during and after the Qilakitsoq period) are displayed, along with a cabinet of curiosities from the city’s brief mining boom.

Uummannaq itself is a lively little town. Expect to see enterprising locals selling handicrafts in the grassy town square, while others sell their catch in the local fish market - always a fascinating sight. Watch fishermen bait their long lines as they head out in search of halibut, or load up with provisions for hunting trips deep into the vast fjordlands outside town.

Ensure you are on Ocean Albatros’ outer decks during our sail-out from Uummannaq – the deep clear blue iceberg-studded waters of the fjord and the dramatic vertical mountains around the city offer some of the best views in Greenland. With a calm microclimate and round-the-clock summer sunshine, not for nothing is this staggeringly beautiful area nicknamed the Greenlandic Riviera!

From Uummannaq, we return to the heart of Disko Bay, setting sail towards Eqip Sermia.

Eqip Sermia (a typically descriptive Greenlandic name meaning 'the Glacier at the End of the Fjord') is a relatively small glacier compared to many in Greenland, although it is still a truly vast river of ice, flowing directly from the Greenland Ice Sheet. It is also one of the most active, and ice tumbles off the vast glacier-front almost constantly. Watching the vast cataracts of ice fall into the ocean is a sight which has to be seen to be believed, and the comfortable viewing decks of Ocean Albatros offer the best possible platform to do so... Perhaps with a specially crafted cocktail in hand!

If conditions allow, we will launch our fleet of Zodiacs to approach this vast river of ice, and hopefully experience the roar of the glacier's frequent calvings at sea level (from a safe distance of course)!

From Eqip Sermia, we will reposition slightly southwards during the evening towards Ilulissat, the largest city in Disko Bay and the Iceberg Capital of the World.

This is it. This is why visitors from all over the world come to Greenland. Translated from Kalaallisut simply as ‘icebergs’, Ilulissat is rightly known the world over as ‘the Iceberg Capital of the World’. Surely no other city on Earth occupies such a spectacular natural setting.

Situated within a short walk of the harbour lies Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland’s most famous site. Choked with city-sized icebergs so closely packed one could almost walk across to the other side, Ilulissat Icefjord stretches 70 km from its outlet in Disko Bay near the city of Ilulissat back to the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. This is the single largest glacier on Earth outside Antarctica, draining 13% of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and producing 10% of all the ice in the Northern Hemisphere (enough water to supply the annual needs of the entire United States). These mind-blowing statistics, together with the indescribably beautiful scenery, have secured the Ilulissat Icefjord designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

While archaeological finds detail the long Inuit habitation of the area, the modern town has steadily flourished in the 280 years since its establishment; legendary Arctic explorer, Knud Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, and his childhood home now houses the city museum. Today, Ilulissat is Greenland’s third largest town, with more than 4,500 inhabitants, and is undoubtedly Greenland’s tourism capital, with more hotel rooms than even Nuuk. The city offers excellent amenities to visitors, with fresh locally caught seafood served in the city’s cafes and restaurants, and excellent shopping – look out especially for the Artist’s Workshop above the harbour, where you can buy handmade artworks direct from the artist. The city typically experiences dry sunny weather throughout the summer, and there are a variety of well-marked hiking routes around the Icefjord, with options to suit all abilities.

During the visit you will have the opportunity to join a boat trip with a local captain to the Icefjord (optional excursion – charge applies). The journey takes about two and a half hours and is considered the best way to experience the magic of Ilulissat Icefjord up close. If a hike or a trip by boat does not present enough excitement, there is also the opportunity to join a flightseeing excursion in fixed-wing aircraft over the Icefjord (optional excursion – charge applies).

Please note the boat and flight excursions to the Icefjord are not included in the general tour price. Refer to Price Information for further details.

The settlement of Itilleq, which translates roughly as "the Crossing Place from the Sea” nestles at the foothills of the mountains and and fjords which line central Greenland's backcountry. Situated just north of the Arctic Circle, Itilleq is one of the many tiny villages dotting the coast of Greenland. The settlement is situated in the heart of the Aassivisuit-Nipisat UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed due to its ancient Inuit hunting heritage, documenting the entire habitation history of Greenland.

While the turf houses and hide tents have been replaced by colourful modern houses, the lifestyle here has changes little since the Inuit first arrived in Greenland. The local highways are the water and the ice, and the sea and tundra continue to nourish the locals, as they has for thousands of years. Arctic char, reindeer and muskoxen are typical catches, and are all plentiful in the area.

Despite this ancient heritage, locals in Itilleq are still firmly in the modern world, with smartphones, speedy wifi and satellite TV. However, the people of Itilleq remain justly proud of their ancient heritage, and continue to move their culture forward in a modern fast paced world. Locals are pleased to show off their piucturesque town, and visitors are greeted with typical warm Greenlandic hospitality.

After departing Itilleq, we will head slightly south and enter the 160km-long Kangerlussuaq Fjord.

This morning, bid farewell to the crew as you disembark from your ship.

Board a shuttle with your cruisemates for a transfer from port to the local airport.

Board a charter flight for a return to Copenhagen. Approximate travel time is 4 hours and 30 minutes.

Meet your private driver at the hotel for a transfer to Copenhagen Airport.

The Tivoli Gardens first opened in 1845 and has inspired Walt Disney when he was creating the original Disneyland. Constantly evolving the park has added new elements including a beloved cultural icon "The Tivoli Youth Guard", a comprehensive children's musical education. Today Tivoli Gardens is a famous amusement park featuring roller coaster rides, pavilions, carnival games, open-air concerts, performing art shows and a Saturday Nights firework display. Tivoli also features an abundance of wonderful pathways and river where you can take a break surrounded by nature. At Tivoli Gardens there is something for everyone! Entrance ticket is included.

Meet your English speaking driver for a private train station transfer. Your driver will be holding a name sign near the first coach.

Take a train ride from Copenhagen to Stockholm, with a change in Malmo. The journey will take approximately 5 hrs 30 mins.

Enjoy your private train station transfer to your hotel with vehicle and driver. Your driver will be holding a name sign near the first coach. For your added comfort, an English speaking assistant will help you to check in to your hotel and walk you through the welcome package documents, your itinerary and answer your questions.

With options galore, deciding on which restaurant to try during the course of your day can be an unnecessary distraction. To assist, within your final trip documents, you’ll receive a supplemental composition showcasing our top restaurant suggestions in Stockholm, as selected by Kensington Tours Destination Experts.

Meet your guide and driver for a private 5-hour tour of Stockholm with visits to the City Hall and Vasa Museum. Start your tour with a leisurely drive through the city that is built on 14 islands, connected by 57 bridges and embraces the unique character of the 13th century and modern high-tech architecture. You will see the best-known sites and buildings such as The Royal Palace, Östermalm and of course Gamla Stan (Old Town). Thereafter, visit the famous Vasa Museum and experience one of the biggest cultural treasures in Sweden – the warship Vasa, arguably the best preserved ancient maritime artifact in the world. Learn about the history of the ship through fascinating exhibitions and see the restored wreck that was salvaged from beneath the water. Continue on with a tour of the City Hall with its spire featuring the golden Three Crowns. Entrance fees to Vasa Museum and City Hall are included.

Meet your private guide and driver, departing from your hotel on a half-day tour of Stockholm's 18th century Royal Palace and historic Old Town. The Royal Palace, also known as the Stockholms Slott or Kungliga Slottet, is the official residence of the Swedish monarchy. The stunning palace has hundreds of rooms decorated in Baroque and Rococo style. See Queen Kristina's silver throne in the Hall of State, admire the beauty of the exquisite reception rooms, stroll between segments of the palace's five museums, and even revel in the royal costumes and armor in the Armory. Afterward, spend some time exploring the charming Gamla Stan, Stockholm's medieval Old Town. Walk around and admire the lovely cathedrals and North German-style architecture of the surrounding buildings as you stroll the old cobblestone streets. Discover Stortget, Stockholm's oldest square, and Kopmangatan, the oldest street in the city, with history linking back to the city's 13th century founding.

Meet your driver for a private airport transfer. Your driver will be holding a name sign at the arrival gates.

With a fantastic atmosphere and unique location at the last frontier in Nyhavn Canal, 71 Nyhavn Hotel is at home in two newly renovated warehouse buildings from the early 1800's. For 200 years, Nyhavn 71 has been located between the foamy sprays from the harbor, and life along the Nyhavn Canal. From the southern side of the building, unparalleled views to the many beautiful museum ships and the clucking water await you. The hotel's two warehouses, home to 130 guestrooms in total, have undergone a sweeping transformation with focus on welcoming interiors, a timeless, Scandinavian look, and a humble respect for the warehouses’ souls and charm which add character to the modern hotel ambience. After a day of discovery, why not top it off with a delightful dining experience at the new on-site gourmet restaurant.

Experience unparalleled adventure aboard the Ocean Albatros, the ideal vessel for small-ship cruising due to its sturdy construction and trademarked hull design, offering stability and comfort. Like its sister ship the Ocean Victory, the Albatros boasts two restaurants, a wellness area, an Albatros Nordic Bar, an open deck dining facility, a modern lecture lounge, and other state-of-the-art amenities. Each of the comfortable state rooms and suites offer unobstructed views of the sea, many boasting their own private balcony. Relax with a cocktail in hand at the Pool Bar, and enjoy warming up in one of the onboard jacuzzies or the heated swimming pool. This ship also features a unique panoramic sauna, a fleet of 18 inflatable motorized Zodiacs, and a total of 12 dedicated solo travel cabins. Albratros is part of a green generation of low-energy vessels, with 4 diesel engines and 2 electro engines, all controlled electronically to optimize speed and fuel consumption.

Miss Clara is a boutique design hotel in the heart of Stockholm, presiding in one of the city's most treasured Art Nouveau buildings. Originally home to Sweden's largest girls school, world famous architect Gert WingÅrdh adapted the seven story building for remarkable hospitality, incorporating modern functionality with timeless design. The hotel’s 92 well-planned rooms and suites have a warm atmosphere, and stylish yet intimate expression. The on-site modern bistro offers classical dishes with a twist, while the green outdoor seating brings an urban picnic to life: summer friends and baguettes, cheese and charcuteries, fresh summer salads, lemonade and sangria. Miss Clara's superb location offers endless possibilities to explore the many great restaurants, exciting bars, shopping gems, and hidden corners of this great capital.