Greenland household: houses, roads and dogs

I will continue to explore the Greenland villages and show the second largest city of Sisimiut, which is located beyond the Arctic Circle and has as many as six thousand inhabitants (which is very much by local standards).

The city originates in 1721, when the missionary Hans Egede laid the church here. In the 20th century, a trading port and a fish factory were built, but recently, tourism has become increasingly important. In modern Sisimiut there are shops, a bank, a secondary school, a youth hostel, hotels, a conference center, several churches, a library, a post office and a hospital. There is also an outdoor swimming pool with heated water, built on stilts.

On the way to the city, a bunch of blue debris of icebergs was observed. Still, photographs are difficult to convey the real sensations of this beauty:

Panorama of the town from the sea:

The captain of our ship Oleg. As you might guess by name, he is Russian. However, the rest of the team is international: among 89 crew members there are representatives of 18 countries.

During our landing there was an ebb. In Greenland, the ebbs and flows are very strongly felt (clearly visible in the photo):

Boats park randomly towards each other, like shuttles in Burma:

Port Bar:

In Sisimiut there are multi-storey buildings - the highest buildings in the city:

From a distance, they look good, but if you come closer, imperfections become noticeable: for example, wooden balconies with rotten boards:

As I already said, each floor has one common balcony, which is a corridor connecting the apartments. You can walk and look in any windows:

Local cemetery:

The earth is not leveled, as in Chukotka, they can build several houses of different heights next to each other.

Nevertheless, all the houses look neat and beautiful - this cannot be taken away:

Panorama of the city. On the right you can see the football field. In general, football in Greenland is terribly popular, everyone plays from young to old:

Greenland dogs. These are very independent, and sometimes even evil creatures, are not particularly attached to humans. But they are able to withstand extreme loads:

The hunting instinct in the breed is highly developed, but the watchdog is weak, and they are friendly to strangers. The training of such a dog is complicated, requires qualifications and time, since to this day they are very similar to a wolf. They have a very developed hierarchical instinct, so the owner needs to be a leader, otherwise the dog will become uncontrollable.

You can keep dogs only in the Arctic Circle, approach, pet, and somehow communicate is prohibited.

There can be no mi-mi here - in harsh living conditions, these dogs are part of everyday life. If the dog ceases to fulfill its function, they immediately kill him so as not to translate the food.

The city has a museum of local lore, where you can see the life of the Greenlanders:

Honestly, from ancient times to this day, not much has changed:

Houses used to be built of turf with stones:

City center. The blue building is the municipality. In the center is a fountain. For the New Year, they put a Christmas tree in it. They say that for the holiday between the administration building and the tree they pull a rope along which Santa Claus goes to the kids: