[Greenland Ilulissat #3] Greenland Special Day - Visit museums on National Day to see their traditio

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but you will never be free like me

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Hello.
I'm traveler @rbaggo
who is finding 'Humanism' in
'Capitalism'

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Let me introduce a special day in Greenland. Luckily, there was a national holiday in Greenland when I visited. It was June 21st in 2016 when I visited.

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I happened to get a national holiday schedule from the kayaking office. There were many events scheduled.

First, the first event to raise the Greenland flag at City Hall starts at 8 a.m., and then we walk together to the church near the coast, worship at 9 a.m. and start.

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After that, the next event took place on the coast where I learned kayaking. It was the first game to go out to sea by kayaking and hunt seals.

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It was over very quickly, perhaps as usual. For your information, seal meat is often eaten in Greenland. I'll introduce how was the taste in the next episode.

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After that, I went to a museum near the coast. There's usually an entrance fee, but today is a national holiday, it's free!

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The first thing I noticed as soon as I came in was the dog sled. It's a very important means of transport in the snowy winter. Wolves driving sleds are trained to follow only their owners, so approaching to them is dangerous.

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There was a family tree of 'Knud Rasmussen', a great explorer who crossed northern Greenland on a dog sled, and it showed his family came from Greenland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway long time ago.

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I can also see the traditional Greenlandic costumes at the museum. Clothes and shoes have colorful patterns.

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Also, there were a lot of different styles.

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Local people wear traditional costumes like this on national holidays. In fact, it's hard to see that local wearing traditional shoes. I could see if I was lucky.

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Today's video is the Greenland traditional polka dance.

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All members dance together and then two or three dance according to the song. It was impressive to see them stamping their feet to the rhythm and dancing together as a group.

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