Scandinavian Tours

Our Scandinavian tours give you a taste of the Scandinavian culture. This program starts in Stockholm, Sweden's "Venice of the North." Continue by train and coach through the Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian portions of Lapland to the Arctic mining town of Kirkenes. Here you'll board the Norwegian Coastal Voyage for its southbound voyage. Six days later, you'll arrive in bustling Bergen, for a tour of Norway's southern fjord country. Then, you'll spend a day in Oslo before cruising overnight to charming Copenhagen, Denmark.

Board your overnight flight to Stockholm.

Arrive at Arlanda Airport, meet your tour director, transfer to your hotel. The day is yours. Welcome dinner. [D]

After breakfast, you'll tour Stockholm's top sights, including the "Golden Hall" at City Hall and the Old Town, with its cobblestone streets and 13th-century cathedral. You'll pass by the Royal Palace and Stock Exchange before traveling on to the island park of Djurgarden, once Sweden's royal hunting preserve and today home to several museums. The afternoon is free. [B]

Sightsee until the late afternoon, when you will transfer to the railroad station for the overnight express train to Swedish Lapland. [B/D]

In the morning, arrive in mining town Gallivare. Transfer by motorcoach to Karasjok. Visit the Samiland Center to see Sami craftsmanship and dine in a traditional turf hut while sitting on reindeer skins around an open fire. [B/D]

Travel by motorcoach across tundra-covered hills, birch woods, and bogs to Kirkenes, where you'll embark on your Norwegian Coastal Voyage. [B/L/D]

Your journey begins in Kirkenes, an Arctic outpost near Norway's border with Russia. Your ship sets course on a southbound passage making stops at 34 unique and picturesque ports before arriving in Bergen, a thriving harbor town with a history of more than 900 years of seaborne trade. [B/L/D]

In the afternoon you will arrive in Bergen for a guided tour of the city before the transfer to your hotel. [B/L]

After breakfast, drive by motorcoach past scenic waterfalls and lakes to Stalheim, where you will descend the hairpin turns of its canyon road through Naeroydal valley to Gudvangen, for a ferry cruise on the Sognefjord. Lunch in the village of Flam. Board the Flam Railway for a scenic ride up the mountains to the Myrdal station, where you transfer to the Bergen Railway for another thrilling ride to Voss; proceed by motorcoach to the delightful village of Ulvik. [B/D]

Continue to Bruravik, take a ferry across the Hardangerfjord to Brimnes. Drive along the Eidsfjord, through tunnels and around hairpin turns, to Fossli. See the Voeringfoss waterfall. Drive along the wild Hardangervidda mountain plateau and through the Hallingdal valley, with a stop at Hadeland Glassworks. Then, it's on to Oslo. [B]

Tour Oslo with stops at the Vigeland Sculpture Park and Holmenkollen Ski Jump. Later, board the ship for Copenhagen. [B/D]

Transfer to hotel. Motorcoach tour past Tivoli Gardens, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, National Museum, Christiansborg Palace, the old Stock Exchange, and the Little Mermaid statue. Visit 17th-century Rosenborg Castle, the former Danish royal summer residence. You will have the afternoon free. In the evening you will enjoy a farewell dinner. [B/D]

Arrive in the U.S. Transfer to the airport for your flight home. [B]

Meal codes: [B] Breakfast [L] Lunch [D] Dinner

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