All meals while on the ship are included.

Typical meals

The ship’s galley offers good-quality service and cuisine throughout, with excellent chefs preparing international menus, including vegetarian dishes. If there is one constant on board, it is that you’ll enjoy delicious meals. While meal times may change due to landings and wildlife sightings, you’ll always be served three well-prepared meals per day. Vegetarians and vegans can be well catered for on this adventure – please inform us before departure of any special dietary requests so our local team can be well prepared.

Breakfast: Buffet style – unlimited tea and coffee, a selection of fruit juices, hot options including bacon and eggs or omelettes, a selection of bread and toast and jam/honey/marmalade, fruit and cereal.

Lunch: Three-course set meal or the occasional buffet or barbecue.

Dinner: Three courses with a starter of soup, salad or anti-pasto, a choice of three mains with at least one vegetarian and one seafood option and a dessert of sweet pudding or ice cream or fruit, tea and coffee.

Drinks: Complimentary coffee, tea, cocoa and water stations are available around the clock, while soft drinks and juices are available during meals and when the bar is open—all included in the cost of your package. Enjoy complimentary select beer, wines and select cocktails during bar service hours and dinner as part of the “Raise a Glass and Stay Connected Free” program. Premium wines and champagne are available at extra cost and can be billed to your shipboard account. The well-stocked bars on the ship are open late morning, afternoon and evening, though hours may occasionally change to accommodate the expedition schedule.

Explore L’Anse aux Meadows, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America. Walk among Norse sod buildings and archaeological remains while guides trace voyages from Greenland and the saga of Leif Erikson around the year 1000 CE.

Hear how iron-working traces and boat-repair evidence rewrote Atlantic history centuries before Columbus. Wind off the Strait of Belle Isle and peat-scented turf set the scene for a rare meeting of archaeology, legend, and landscape.

Explore Eternity Fjord, a 75km waterway hemmed by towering granite walls and braided glaciers. Your ship threads beneath cloud-brushed peaks, entering a glacially carved amphitheatre of icefalls and mirror-still water that begs for photos. The captain lingers where light and geology align, giving time to pause for photos and reflection.

This deep fjord—reaching 1,200m in places—reveals classic U-shaped valleys and hanging glaciers. Watch for kittiwakes and fulmars tracing the cliffs while your guides unpack Greenland’s geology, climate, and the human stories shaped by this dramatic coastline near Maniitsoq.

Explore historic Sisimiut, where 18th-century buildings frame the harbor and the blue-and-red Bethel Church anchors the waterfront. Meet artisans at a kayak-making demonstration to see how seal-tight seams and elegant frames reflect Greenlandic Inuit heritage and centuries of sea hunting along this Arctic coast.

Stroll among brightly painted houses near the Arctic Circle while guides interpret seasonal migrations, fishing traditions, and the design genius of the kayak as a cultural symbol. The town’s mountains-and-sea backdrop adds a vivid setting to this living history.

Visit Pangnirtung, framed by fjord and peaks, to engage with Inuit culture through celebrated weaving and printmaking traditions. Browse textiles whose motifs mirror tundra light and caribou tracks, and learn how craftsmanship sustains identity and livelihoods in this Arctic community.

Hear Inuktitut place names and stories that map the land as surely as charts. Try a warm “Pang toque” and see how artistry, subsistence, and community networks converge at the edge of Cumberland Sound—where sea ice and culture have long traveled together.

Join a guided shore walk across Arctic tundra to sweeping views over the Davis Strait. Learn how John Davis charted these waters in 1585 and why a Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line site rose here during the Cold War, linking remote headlands into a global early-detection network.

Guides acknowledge Inuit harvesting traditions that long predate European arrivals, highlighting stone, lichen, and birdlife that animate this stark cove. The wind, the sound of surf, and the scale of the coastline combine into a powerful sense of place.

Experience Torngat Mountains National Park on Zodiac landings into fjords where ice-scoured walls rise straight from the sea. Join guided hikes across tundra valleys to viewpoints over turquoise inlets, watching for caribou trails, Arctic fox prints, and raptors circling serrated ridgelines—the highest peaks east of the Rockies.

Learn why Torngat means “place of the spirits” in Inuktitut and how these ancestral lands underpin Nunatsiavut self-governance. Natural history and living culture intertwine as you explore a landscape where geology, wildlife, and Inuit heritage are inseparable.

Visit the striking Illusuak Cultural Centre to explore exhibits on Labrador Inuit heritage, seasonal cycles, and language. In town, step into the white-clapboard Moravian Mission complex founded in 1771, where hymnals and architecture reveal centuries of cultural exchange on this wild Labrador coast.

Conversations with locals bring stories of sea ice, berry seasons, and family routes alive. Taste traditional flavors—perhaps arctic char or tart cloudberries—and feel how contemporary Nunatsiavut identity builds on deep continuity and resilient community.

Join expert-led polar presentations by glaciologists, historians, and naturalists that decode the ice, peoples, and wildlife of the North Atlantic. Between sessions, join expedition staff on deck to search for whales and seabirds as bergs drift by—an open-air classroom with ever-changing views.

These sessions fuse science and story, enriching every landing. Scan for humpbacks, minke whales, fulmars, and kittiwakes over the Davis Strait and Labrador Sea, aligning what you learn with what you see on the horizon.

Ride mountain biking in Sisimiut on Arctic singletrack and coastal gravel routes carved through glacially shaped hills. Pedal across rugged Arctic terrain to sweeping coastal viewpoints, with guides sharing local ecology and town history between climbs and descents.

This adventurous add-on is at additional cost, with bikes and helmets provided. Terrain is varied and weather-dependent; suitable fitness required. Limited places are bookable on tour through your Expedition Team, subject to local conditions and time in port.

Visit a local museum dedicated to explorer Knud Rasmussen in his birthplace of Ilulissat. Exhibits trace epic dogsled journeys, ethnographic work, and the era when sled dogs outnumbered residents—context that deepens your encounter with the Icefjord landscape and community.

This short cultural stop is at additional cost and subject to local opening hours. Your Expedition Team can help arrange entry and timing; it’s bookable on tour and easily combined with a stroll among colorful houses and sled-dog yards.

Slip into stable sea kayaks to paddle quietly along granite headlands and among small bergy bits, guided by safety-certified staff. Feel the stillness as your paddle dips beside ice and stone, a human-scale perspective that complements Zodiac cruising and shipboard viewing.

Participation is a limited-capacity program at additional cost, offered on select days and always weather and wildlife-dependent. All technical gear is provided; reserve early with your Expedition Team as places are bookable on tour and popular.

Discover the UNESCO-listed Ilulissat Icefjord by embarking on a nimble Zodiac cruise among vast, sculptural bergs calved from Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Glacier). Glide past creaking blue walls and brash ice drifting toward Disko Bay, with your Expedition Team interpreting glaciology, currents, and wildlife behavior as you photograph this parade of icebergs.

Walk from town across lichen-bright rock and boardwalks to panoramic viewpoints where the fjord opens like a frozen river. Hear sled dogs call across the water and learn why “Ilulissat” means “icebergs” in Greenlandic, grounding the spectacle in language, culture, and Greenland’s storied relationship with the sea.