Your itinerary
Day 1
Day 1: Welcome to Copenhagen
After checking in, you have time to explore. Perhaps you wander into a local bakery and choose a sweet wienerbrød, its sugar rustling softly inside the paper bag. You clink glasses over drinks and dinner with the Travel Director and fellow travellers. As evening settles in, you walk down to Tivoli Gardens, wandering along glowing lamplit paths past the Chinese-style Pantomime Theatre. Perhaps you will board the old wooden roller coaster or catch the sweet buttery scent of pastries wafting among the food stalls.
Meals: Dinner
Day 2
Day 2: Copenhagen: Royal Squares, Harbour and Castles
With your Local Specialist, you move through Copenhagen’s harbour streets and royal squares, pausing at the Little Mermaid, where sea air brushes your skin as Andersen’s bronze figure looks out across the water. You continue to Christiansborg Palace, the seat of the Danish Government, then pass Rosenborg Castle’s red-brick walls and copper-spired turrets before crossing Amalienborg’s octagonal palace courtyard. In Nyhavn, you pass painted townhouses that lean over moored boats as water knocks softly against the hulls. The afternoon is yours to shape, whether you linger in the city or choose today’s Optional Experience into the Danish countryside to visit the castles of North Zealand.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 3
Day 3: Explore Gothenburg’s Canals, Quays and Avenyn
Travelling along Sweden’s west coast, you arrive in Gothenburg, where your Local Specialist leads you through a city of canals, quays and old fishing trade. As vessels bob in the harbour and gulls call above coils of nets, you hear how shipyards, fishing and seafood have long filled working days by the water. This evening, you head along Avenyn, Gothenburg’s broad boulevard, passing the Poseidon fountain, glittering theatre lights and tall trees lining the pavements. Perhaps you will take a seat at a local seafood restaurant as evening settles and you hear fish sizzling on the grill.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 4
Day 4: Lake Vättern: Farmland, Fika and Stockholm
You follow the shore of Lake Vättern towards Stockholm, watching fertile farmland spread beyond the window in fields of green and gold. At Grännaberget cafe, you sit down on, you take your time over a warm coffee and fresh flaky pastries that crumble between your fingers. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience helps preserve Sweden’s cultural heritage through fika, a moment to stop, relax and enjoy the moment.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 5
Day 5: Stockholm: Medieval Lanes and Nobel Halls
Through Gamla Stan’s narrow medieval lanes, you follow your Local Specialist towards Storkyrkan, the city’s medieval cathedral, with painted ceilings above and the St George and the Dragon sculpture inside. At City Hall, you pass into Gyllene salen, where flashes of gold dance across the gleaming marble floor and mosaic walls glow beneath glittering chandeliers. Then you move into the grand Blå hallen, where high red brick walls rise far above pale stone arches in a vast room used for the Nobel Prize banquets. In the afternoon, you might continue to the Vasa Museum, where you stand before a 17th-century warship raised from Stockholm harbour more than 300 years after it sank on its maiden voyage.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 6
Day 6: Sweden’s Gardens: Uppsala, Falun and Dalarna
Arriving in Uppsala, seat of Scandinavia’s oldest university, you walk with Hans Odoo, a Local Specialist, into the Linnaeus Garden, Sweden’s first botanical garden. Crunching gravel paths lead you between 18th-century garden quarters, hedges of mock orange, barberry, willow and spruce. If the wild tulips are flowering, you may catch their fragrance as they unfold in front of you and Hans shares how the garden changed the way plants were studied. Later, you arrive in Falun, where timber houses painted Falun red line the old mining streets. At a local restaurant, you sit down to a farm-to-table dinner of fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
Meals: Breakfast,Dinner
Day 7
Day 7: Falun to Lillehammer: Mines and Mountains
With your Travel Director, see the rim of the Great Pit and gaze down into the vast crater left by a mine collapse at Falun Copper Mine in 1687. From there, the road slips along Lake Siljan towards Mora, with broad water beside you and stories of the town’s 17th-century witch trials waiting on arrival. Sweden’s forested interior grows denser on the way to Sälen, where you stand at the starting point of Vasaloppet and picture skiers pushing into the cold, their poles striking a 90-kilometre route through pine and snow towards Mora. Across the Norwegian border, Hamar’s Vikingskipet curves like an upturned Viking ship, its Olympic ice once cut by the scrape of speed skates. You travel beside Lake Mjøsa, Norway’s largest lake, with water stretching towards Lillehammer and the mountain town’s 1994 Winter Olympics legacy.
Meals: Breakfast,Dinner
Day 8
Day 8: See Lom Stave Church and Visit Geiranger
Leaving Lillehammer, you travel northwest into Peer Gynt country, looking out across farm valleys before the road climbs into mountain country immortalised by Ibsen. In Lom, you pause before the dark timber of Lom Stave Church, one of Norway’s largest and oldest stave churches, and look up at the carved dragon heads along its roofline. The road bends on, and you follow its turns through the spray of roaring waterfalls, rushing rivers, ice fields, lakes and snow-capped peaks. In Geiranger, you arrive and look down to fjord water below, with steep mountains around you and the sound of falls in the distance.
Meals: Breakfast,Dinner
Day 9
Day 9: Norway’s Fjord Country: Geiranger and Beyond
After a Relaxed Start, you have time to wander through Geiranger at your own ease, with fjord water below, steep mountains around you and cool air carrying the scent of wet stone and greenery. Perhaps you will choose today’s Optional Experience along Troll’s Road, where 11 hairpin bends climb the mountainside and Stigfossen drops beside the route. At the viewpoint, you look down over each tight turn, with the thunder of water below and mountain air cold against your face.
Meals: Breakfast,Dinner
Day 10
Day 10: Cruise Along Geirangerfjord and Visit Fjærland
You begin on the water, cruising along Geirangerfjord and watching the water darken beneath steep mountains and waterfalls threading down the rock. At Bøyabreen, you pause for a photo stop near a steep arm of Jostedalsbreen, where blue-white ice grips the mountainside above you. In Fjærland, your choice experience lets you choose between the Norwegian Glacier Museum, a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience where you can experiment with 1,000-year-old ice, or a walk through the village with a Local Specialist to hear about daily life between the fjord and the glacier. The road then follows the water to your historic fjord hotel in Leikanger, where dinner is served with fresh, locally sourced produce.
Meals: Breakfast,Dinner
Day 11
Day 11: Sognefjord To Bergen: Railways and Cider
Across Sognefjord, Norway’s longest and deepest fjord, more than 200 kilometres of water stretch between steep mountain walls as you travel onward. On the Flåm Railway, you settle by the window as the train climbs through tunnels and steep terrain, waterfalls flashing past the glass. In Voss, you visit Finnegarden Farm and taste traditionally crafted juices and ciders, their crisp flavour shaped by glacial soil and a cool climate. You arrive in Bergen by the water, a former Hanseatic trading port where Bryggen’s wooden wharf buildings stand close along the harbour and you breathe in salt air as you walk the narrow lanes.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 12
Day 12: Bergen: Fish Market, Håkon’s Hall and Fløyen
At Bergen’s harbour, you join your Local Specialist by the lively Fish Market, which has been part of city life since the 1200s. You pass fish laid on beds of crushed ice, berry baskets, leafy greens and colourful buckets of flowers, as the scent of fresh fruit cuts through the cool harbour air and vendors call across the stalls. At Håkon’s Hall, you step onto wide wooden floorboards and look up to a steep timber roof, with grey stone walls, arched windows and warm hanging lights above the medieval banqueting hall. The afternoon is yours to explore, perhaps visiting the Kode Museum before riding Fløibanen up Mount Fløyen, where the funicular climbs 320 metres above sea level as you look out across Bergen’s colourful rooftops and the deep blue water stretching out towards the horizon.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 13
Day 13: Norway’s High Roads: Bergen to Oslo
Leaving Bergen behind, you climb into Norway’s high country, watching the blue of the coast change to mountain lakes, pale stone and long sweeps of sky. On the Hardanger Plateau, the road reaches around 1,200 metres, where the breeze feels cool against your skin as you pass ski resorts and broad mountain country. Further along the route, the scenery turns greener, with spruce and birch forests lining the horizon and the clean scent of resin in the air as the coach hums towards Oslo.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 14
Day 14: Explore Oslo’s Palaces, Parks and Waterfront
Past the Royal Palace, you follow your Local Specialist to Akershus Castle’s 14th-century ramparts at the end of the headland, looking up to its spires and out across the harbour. In Frogner Park, you walk among Vigeland’s bronze, granite and wrought-iron figures, close enough to notice clenched hands, bowed shoulders and faces caught between tenderness and strain. Around the Opera House and Bjørvika, you follow the fjordside, passing white marble, glass façades and Barcode’s narrow high-rises as you hear waves tap along the quay. In the evening, you sit down at a local restaurant, wine cool in the glass, and toast the fellow travellers who have crossed fjords, high roads and harbour cities with you.
Meals: Breakfast,Dinner
Day 15
Day 15: Oslo Farewell And Scandinavian Goodbyes
You’ll say goodbye to your Travel Director and fellow travellers, as your Scandinavian journey comes to a close.
Meals: Breakfast
What’s included
What’s not included
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Tivoli Gardens Evening Visit
Explore Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen’s 1843 pleasure park where lanterns glow along tree-lined paths and the Chinese-style Pantomime Theatre sets a playful mood. Wander between pavilions and music stages, or ride the historic wooden roller coaster—still operated by a brakeman.
Absorb the atmosphere that inspired generations of artists and composers. Between carousels and lakes you’ll catch the scent of warm pastries and hear laughter drifting across the gardens—an enduring snapshot of Danish urban leisure.
Gothenburg City Exploration with Local Specialist
Explore with your Local Specialist across Gothenburg’s Dutch-planned canals, quay-side warehouses and broad boulevards. See how shipyards and fisheries once powered the harbour and how creative hubs have revitalised the docks.
Pause along Avenyn, the city’s grand boulevard, to trace the rise of Sweden’s west-coast trading port. Hear stories behind the Poseidon statue and elegant theatres, where seafaring heritage meets modern Nordic city life.
Stockholm Old Town Walk & City Hall’s Nobel Halls
Explore Stockholm with your Local Specialist through Gamla Stan’s medieval lanes to view Stockholm Cathedral and time-worn merchant houses. Cross to the waterfront to admire a capital planned across 14 islands.
Step inside Stockholm City Hall to see the brick-built Blue Hall—setting of the Nobel Banquet—and the glittering Golden Hall, where mosaics depict Swedish myth and history. Experience the balance of civic grandeur and archipelago light that defines the city.
Uppsala’s Linnaeus Garden with Hans Odoo
Walk with storyteller Hans Odoo into the Linnaeus Garden, Sweden’s first botanical garden. Follow gravel paths between 18th-century beds as you learn how Carl Linnaeus reordered the natural world through observation and classification.
See historic plantings, fragrant hedges and seasonal blooms that reveal the garden as a living laboratory. Hear how ideas developed here spread across Europe, reshaping botany and medicine far beyond Uppsala.
MAKE TRAVEL MATTER: Gränna Fika & Heritage Café
Share fika at a family-run café in Gränna, savouring coffee and pastries made with seasonal produce from local farms. Set in an 18th-century wooden house, this pause celebrates Sweden’s ritual of slowing down together.
Learn how your visit supports the preservation of regional memorabilia and storytelling, directly contributing to Sustainable Cities and Communities (UN SDG 11). This simple, delicious tradition connects everyday flavours with living cultural heritage.
Falun Copper Mine Heritage & Great Pit Rim
Visit the historic landscapes of the Falun Copper Mine to view the Great Pit, a vast crater formed after a 17th-century collapse. From the rim, trace the scarred earth and timbered buildings that powered Sweden’s age of copper.
Hear how this industrial site—part of a UNESCO World Heritage area—shaped workers’ housing, local colour (Falun red), and the economy that radiated across the region and beyond.
Sälen Vasaloppet Trailhead Heritage Stop
Pause at Sälen, the start of the legendary Vasaloppet ski race. Picture skiers pushing into winter air along the 90-kilometre route to Mora, a test of stamina rooted in the story of Gustav Vasa’s flight across Dalarna.
Learn how this annual race anchors local identity, draws athletes worldwide and turns the mountain villages into a festival of waxed skis, ringing cowbells and crisp pine-scented mornings.
Lillehammer Olympic Landmarks Orientation
Survey Lillehammer’s alpine setting above Lake Mjøsa as you pass venues from the 1994 Winter Games. See how arenas, ski jumps and athletes’ facilities were woven into the town’s slopes and valleys.
Hear how the Olympics accelerated a shift from market town to outdoor-life hub, where cross-country trails, ski culture and summer hiking keep the sporting spirit alive year-round.
Lom Stave Church: Medieval Timber Masterpiece
View Lom stave church, among Norway’s largest surviving stave churches, with origins around 1158. Admire its carved dragon heads, tiered roofs and dark tarred timbers set against mountain horizons.
Learn how this medieval structure evolved with later extensions while preserving its core post-and-plank frame, a testament to Norse carpentry, Christian worship and centuries of village life.
Geiranger Village Orientation & Fjord Viewpoints
Stroll Geiranger with your Travel Director, connecting harbour, hillside roads and panoramic stops above the UNESCO-listed Geirangerfjord. Feel cool spray in the air as waterfalls thread across near-vertical walls.
Hear how farms clung to ledges high above the water and how modern paths and viewpoints open this dramatic amphitheatre of rock, forest and fjord to today’s travellers.
Geirangerfjord Scenic Cruise
Cruise along Geirangerfjord, gliding between sheer cliffs where ribbons of water dive to the dark channel below. Watch for the Seven Sisters waterfall and the Bridal Veil as seabirds circle the boat.
From the water, spot abandoned mountain farms and forested slopes of birch and pine; on lucky days, porpoises or white-tailed eagles add to the fjord’s quiet drama. This is Norway’s landscape at its most sculptural.
Bøyabreen Glacier Viewpoint Stop
Pause for photos at Bøyabreen, a striking outlet of the Jostedalsbreen icefield. From the viewpoint, read the landscape: blue-white ice, polished bedrock and glacial moraines tracing past advances and retreats.
Hear how climate and topography shape Norway’s glaciers and the valleys they carve, creating a living textbook of ice-age forces in a compact, dramatic scene.
Norwegian Glacier Museum, Fjærland (Included Choice)
Visit the Norwegian Glacier Museum to explore interactive exhibits on ice formation, movement and melt across the vast Jostedalsbreen system. Models, films and hands-on displays bring glaciology to life.
This experience is one of two included options in Fjærland—choose on tour at no extra cost. Engage with science that explains the fjords you’ve seen and the delicate balance shaping this landscape.
Fjærland Village Walk with Local Specialist (Included Choice)
Walk with your Local Specialist through Fjærland’s wooden houses and boathouses between fjord and glacier valley. Hear how farming, fishing and tourism meet in Norway’s beloved “book town.”
This experience is one of two included options in Fjærland—choose on tour at no extra cost. Gain a village-level view of life at the fjord’s end, where community, nature and stories are closely bound.
Flåm Railway Mountain Journey
Ride the Flåm Railway from sea level to 866 metres, climbing one of the world’s steepest standard-gauge lines with a 1:18 gradient. Tunnels punch through rock as waterfalls and high farms flash by your window.
Learn how mid-20th-century engineering linked fjord and plateau, opening dramatic valleys to rail travel and capturing Norway’s vertical scenery in a single, spellbinding ascent.
Finnegarden Farm Visit & Cider Tasting, Voss
Visit Finnegarden near Voss to tour orchards shaped by glacial soils and a cool inland climate. In the cider house, taste traditionally crafted ciders and juices where acidity, aroma and sweetness reflect the landscape.
Hear how heritage methods meet modern pressing to revive West Norway’s fruit culture. This is terroir in a glass—crisp, refreshing and rooted in place.
Bergen Fish Market & Håkon’s Hall with Local Specialist
Explore with your Local Specialist at Bergen’s harbour where the Fish Market has animated city life since the 1200s. Stroll past crushed-ice stalls, berries and flowers as sea air mingles with the scent of fresh produce.
Step into Håkon’s Hall, the medieval royal banqueting hall, before viewing Bryggen’s timber wharf houses—reminders of the Hanseatic merchants who knitted Bergen into North Sea trade routes.
Hardangervidda Mountain Plateau Scenic Drive
Cross Hardangervidda, one of Europe’s largest high plateaus, where sky, stone and water stretch to the horizon. Moorland, tarns and distant glaciers create a stark, Nordic canvas.
Hear how reindeer migrations, weather-beaten huts and alpine roads define Norway’s high country. This route links fjords to inland valleys, revealing the breadth of landscapes packed into a single day’s journey.
Oslo Panoramic City Tour & Waterfront
Explore Oslo with your Local Specialist, viewing the 19th-century Royal Palace and medieval Akershus fortress above the harbour. Continue along Karl Johans gate and the Stortinget to modern icons at the fjord’s edge.
Pause by the Oslo Opera House and Bjørvika waterfront, where marble, glass and bold urban design transformed former docks into a cultural district facing the water.
Vigeland Sculpture Park Visit, Oslo
Visit Frogner Park to see Vigeland’s sculpture installation, over 200 bronze and granite works aligned along bridges and terraces. Study expressive figures up close—tensioned shoulders, clasped hands, tender embraces.
Climb toward the Monolith plateau where human forms spiral skyward, an exploration of life’s stages cast in stone and metal against lawns, trees and city skyline.
Leikanger Orientation & Sognefjord Orchard Landscape
Join a short orientation around Leikanger on the shores of Sognefjord, where steep hillsides shelter family farms and waterside orchards. Note the village church and quiet quays along Norway’s longest fjord.
Hear how the mild fjord climate nurtures fruit growing and small-scale agriculture alongside modern tourism, shaping a balanced rhythm of life between mountains and water.
North Zealand Castles: Frederiksborg & Kronborg
Visit Denmark’s great castles on a countryside excursion north of Copenhagen. Explore Frederiksborg Castle at Hillerød, a Renaissance showpiece set on lake islets with ornate halls and gardens.
Continue to Helsingør’s Kronborg Castle, the UNESCO-listed stronghold known as Elsinore in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Learn how royal power and Baltic trade shaped these fortresses. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.
Trollstigen Mountain Road & Stigfossen Viewpoint
Travel the dramatic Trollstigen (Troll’s Road), climbing a series of 11 hairpin bends beneath towering peaks. Stop to watch the Stigfossen waterfall thunder beside the roadway and feel cool spray in the mountain air.
From viewpoints above the valley, trace each turn etched into the cliffs and pause for photos across jagged ridgelines. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.
Copenhagen Panoramic City Tour & Nyhavn Waterfront
Join a guided panoramic tour taking in the harbour and royal quarters, pausing at the Little Mermaid before viewing the seat of parliament at Christiansborg Palace. Trace Copenhagen’s regal axis past Rosenborg’s copper spires to Amalienborg Palace and its stately square.
Walk the 17th-century quays of Nyhavn where timbered houses lean over wooden masts. Hear how merchants, sailors and storytellers shaped this maritime capital, and capture the canal’s colour as water taps softly against moored boats.
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Dining Summary
- 7 Dinner (D)
- 14 Breakfast (B)
How You'll Travel
- Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
- Premium regional accommodation
- Business class coach with extended leg room, and train travel
Authentic Dining
- Copenhagen: Savour local specialities in Denmark’s capital city during dinner with your Travel Director and fellow travellers.
- Falun: Dine at a local restaurant in Falun that works closely with nearby farms and producers. Expect a seasonal menu that reflects central Sweden’s ingredients, from vegetables and dairy to meats and preserves drawn from the surrounding countryside.
- Voss Municipality: Visit Finnegarden Farm near Voss to see how glacial soils and a cool inland climate support fruit orchards. You’ll tour the farm and cider house, hear how traditional and modern pressing methods are used and taste juices and ciders where acidity, sweetness and aroma reflect the local growing conditions.
- Oslo: Scandinavian hospitality is matched with fine food and a glass of wine during dinner at a local restaurant.
Premium Experience
- Uppsala: Meet local storyteller Hans Odoo in Uppsala to explore the story of Carl Linnaeus and his garden. You’ll hear how this 18th-century botanist organised plants by their characteristics and geography, turning the space into a model for scientific classification.
Trafalgar Choice
- Fjaerland: Visit the Norwegian Glacier Museum in Fjærland, which presents Norway’s glaciers and the Jostedalsbreen icefield through interactive models, films and exhibits. You’ll see how ice forms and moves, how it shapes valleys and fjords, and how scientists monitor changes in glacier mass and climate.
- Fjaerland: Walk through Fjærland with your Local Specialist, passing wooden houses, boathouses and fields between the fjord and the glacier valley. You’ll hear how farming, fishing, tourism and the village’s role as Norway’s “book town” fit together in a small community at the end of a fjord.
