Outside of Nuuk, the capital, are beautiful, fjords were people have small summer cottages. You see brightly colored Danish-style houses in this majestic landscape. After visiting Nuuk, I flew up north to Ilulissat, which is above the Arctic Circle - it's either that or a long ride via boat. Since I was there in July, the sun never set! It was strange, yet nice, having daylight all the time. Around Ilulissat, and in Qasigiannguit, which we visited via boat, we saw many Greenland Dog breeding locations. They a large husky-type dog kept as a sled dog, and are relied on for survival during the dark winter months where people subsist on hunting and fishing - requiring travel across massive ice floes. Today, the breed is considered nationally and culturally important to Greenland and efforts are made to safeguard its purity. In western Greenland north of the Arctic Circle and the entirety of eastern Greenland, it is illegal to import any dog from outside. A number of projects have been initiated in an attempt of ensuring that Greenland's dog sledding culture, knowledge and use, along with the breed itself, are not lost.
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