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Greenland (Tourism video 3)
Greenland is the biggest island in the world and more than 84 percent of its ground is covered by ice. During winter, the Aurora Borealis green lights can be seen glowing in the sky. However, during the summer a wide variety of outdoor activities such as trekking on thick, ice layers and amazing yourself with the colossal ice blocks, kayak crossing through the south fiords and go on a helicopter trip to watch from a safe distance whales, seals, polar bears and the like. At the south of the island, visitors can admire the Norwegian, Vikings ruins. However, the only race that inhabited the island throughout the centuries as the Asian Inuit. However, the traditional Eskimo who use to eat raw fish and live in igloos has almost disappeared. Nowadays, most Inuit live in common houses and do all kinds of jobs. A place that every tourist should visit is Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland, which first settlements are over 4200 years old. In this city, past and present coexist in a harmonic and dynamic way. If you go on shopping in their vast variety of shops, you should look for the traditional tupllaks, which are small statues carved in whalebones or reindeer horns. These tiny statues used to represent bad spirits in the Eskimos tradition. Greenland is a place for nature lovers.
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