Colourful houses and mountains in Sisimiut on Greenland’s west coast

Sisimiut: Where Modern Greenland Meets the Mountains

After travelling through remote fjords, past glaciers and icebergs, and visiting some tiny communities along the Greenlandic coast, arriving in Sisimiut feels surprisingly urban. This is Greenland’s second-largest town, with around 5,500 inhabitants, yet it still sits in a landscape that would be considered wilderness almost anywhere else. Mountains rise directly behind the houses, the …