The colorful tradition of the characteristic, brightly coloured houses in Greenland . The colours were practical and indicated the function of the building: Commercial houses were red; hospitals were yellow; police stations were black; the telephone company was green and fish factories were blue.This is Oqaatsut (Rodebay) home to about 30 people and used to be an Inuit settlement, a whaling station and a trading post. You can visit the settlement by boat from Illulisat or if you are a hiker it is possible to actually hike the 23km back to Ilulissat from here