Wonderful Copenhagen is the perfect city to explore on foot, by bicycle or by water. Visit the bustling wharf at Nyhavn, enjoy the palaces, galleries and museums, wander through the amazing Tivoli Gardens, and if you have time, make the most of Copenhagen’s gastronomic revolution.

Founded in 1941 as a US Air Force base, Kangerlussuaq is home to Greenland’s main airport and a place that most visitors to the country will pass through at some point. The town also offers easy access to the magnificent Greenland Ice Cap, and the surrounding countryside is a great place to see the Northern Lights.

The spectacular Ilulissat ice fjord is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it's the source of the many icebergs that float out across Disko Bay. The town of Ilulissat itself is Greenland’s third largest settlement, and activities on offer here include dog sledding and whale watching.

Disko Bay is one of Greenland’s most spectacular sights, where calving glaciers send huge icebergs floating out across the water. These bergs can be several kilometres in length, and are sculpted into weird and wonderful shapes by the weather. Whatever you do, don’t forget your camera!

Upernavik is the northernmost town in Greenland with over 1,000 inhabitants, situated on a bay scattered with islands and icebergs. The Upernavik Museum, the oldest in Greenland, contains an impressive collection of local art, and the region has an interesting Norse heritage, thought to be the northern limit of Viking exploration.

The little Inuit village of Savissivik, home to fewer than 100 people, is the only settlement on Meteorite Island, named after the Cape York Meteorite which crash landed here thousands of years ago. The island is surrounded by vast glaciers that calve icebergs into the sea, and the locals survive by hunting seals, narwhal, beluga whales and polar bears.

Qaanaaq is the northernmost town in Greenland and one of the most northerly settlements in the world, still popularly known as Thule after the ‘ultima Thule’ of antiquity. The town’s 600 hardy inhabitants endure permanent darkness in winter, while summer brings four months of 24-hour daylight.

The small Inuit settlement of Pond Inlet sits at the entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, on the north coast of Baffin Island. A dramatic landscape of fjords, glaciers and icebergs provides a habitat for wildlife including whales, seabirds, seals and narwhals, the otherworldly ‘unicorns of the sea’.

Isabella Bay is part of the Ninginganiq National Wildlife Area on the northeast coast of Baffin Island, and is home to Canada’s largest concentration of bowhead whales. It's also a great spot for birdwatching, with species including king eiders, long-tailed ducks, little auks and northern fulmars.

The name Sisimiut means ‘the people living in a place where there are fox dens’, though these days the town is better known for being Greenland’s northernmost year-round ice-free port. Around 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it’s a common stop for ships making the journey north to Disko Bay.

Founded in 1941 as a US Air Force base, Kangerlussuaq is home to Greenland’s main airport and a place that most visitors to the country will pass through at some point. The town also offers easy access to the magnificent Greenland Ice Cap, and the surrounding countryside is a great place to see the Northern Lights.