• 7 Dinner (D)
• 14 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• Business class coach with extended leg room, and train travel
• Premium regional accommodation

• Copenhagen: Meet your Travel Director and small group travellers at dinner in Copenhagen. Enjoy Nordic dishes built on seasonal local produce and simple, well-balanced flavours.
• Gothenburg: Join your Local Specialist in Gothenburg for lunch at Feskekorka, the city’s 19th-century fish market hall, where a fish bun reflects the west coast’s long connection to seafood and harbour trade. Continue to the market hall for sweet tastings such as ice cream or fika, then explore Gothenburg on foot, tracing its canals, trading history and streets shaped by the city’s 17th-century plan.
• 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: Join your small group and Travel Director for dinner in Oslo, reminisce over highlights from the tour and raise a toast to your journey together.

• 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.

• 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.

Join a guided panoramic tour to read Copenhagen through its waterfront and palaces. View the harbour’s Little Mermaid, pass Christiansborg Palace—seat of Denmark’s parliament—and see Rosenborg Castle and the Amalienborg royal square before strolling the colourful Nyhavn waterfront.

Learn how merchant canals, enlightened city planning and modern cycling culture shaped this compact capital. Your Local Specialist connects royal traditions with everyday Danish life, pointing out architectural contrasts from Renaissance facades to clean-lined Scandinavian minimalism.

Share Swedish fika with coffee and pastries at Grännaberget, meeting Mattias in his family-run café set in an 18th-century wooden house. Taste seasonal treats sourced from local farms while hearing how café proceeds help preserve regional memorabilia and craft traditions.

This visit supports UN SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities by sustaining living heritage. Enjoy views over Lake Vättern and learn why the town’s timber architecture and confectionery culture give small-town Sweden its distinctive charm.

Explore Sweden’s west-coast larder on a guided stroll through canals and marketplaces. Sample a classic fish bun at Feskekorka, the neo-Gothic “fish church,” then continue to the historic market hall for sweet tastings that echo Gothenburg’s trading ties.

Trace how Hanseatic routes and North Sea fisheries shaped local palates, warehouses and civic pride. Between bites, your Local Specialist links the 17th-century city plan to today’s creative food scene, where simple ingredients meet maritime freshness.

Walk cobbled lanes of Gamla Stan to see Stockholm Cathedral before crossing to districts shaped by Sweden’s modern era. Enter Stockholm City Hall, a National Romantic landmark, to view the brick-clad Blue Hall and glittering Golden Hall of mosaic scenes.

Understand a capital spread across 14 islands, where ferries and bridges knit medieval merchants’ houses to 20th-century civic ambition. Your Local Specialist reveals how Baltic light and water define Stockholm’s rhythm and viewpoints.

Meet a local storyteller to uncover how Carl Linnaeus turned his Uppsala garden into a living laboratory. Stroll beds ordered by species and origin while hearing how this 18th-century botanist pioneered scientific classification.

Sense the quiet discipline of academia in Sweden’s historic university city as you explore the garden’s glasshouses and pathways. The narrative connects Nordic flora and global exploration, revealing how ideas from this modest plot reshaped modern botany.

Visit the Falun copper mine to view the vast pit and learn how ore from this site bankrolled Swedish power for centuries. Walk interpretive areas that explain extraction, smelting and the region’s iconic Falu red pigment.

Continue with an orientation around historic workers’ housing and streets within the UNESCO-listed cultural landscape. Your Travel Director traces how mining shaped town planning and livelihoods, leaving industrial scars now reimagined as heritage.

Gain your bearings in Sälen, one of Sweden’s key alpine resort areas and the starting point of the legendary Vasaloppet ski race. See how lifts, trails and village services support year-round mountain life.

Hear stories that link royal history, long-distance skiing and the Dalarna landscape. Your Travel Director highlights how outdoor culture and seasonal rhythms shape communities across Sweden’s forested highlands.

Survey Lillehammer with a guided orientation that connects its wooden main street and lakeside setting to venues from the 1994 Winter Olympics. View ski jumps and arenas that embedded sport into this Gudbrandsdalen town.

Discuss how hosting the Games catalysed Norwegian outdoor life, architecture and transport links around Lake Mjøsa. The walk frames daily life against alpine horizons and a proud sporting legacy.

Pause to view Lom stave church, among Norway’s largest surviving wooden churches, with origins around 1158. Examine its tiered roofs, carved portals and later extensions that reveal evolving worship and craft.

Your Travel Director explains how medieval builders used pine staves, tar and joinery to weather alpine climates. The setting, backed by high valleys and rivers, places timber architecture within Norway’s mountain culture.

Orient yourself in Geiranger, a village poised at the head of a UNESCO-listed fjord. Trace hillside roads, harbour paths and overlooks that connect steep slopes with the water below.

Learn how engineering, ferries and footpaths tame this dramatic topography. Your Travel Director points out classic vantage points to pause for photos and reflection, where waterfalls, farms and forests stitch together the fjord landscape.

Cruise Geirangerfjord beneath near-vertical rock walls and ribboning waterfalls such as the Seven Sisters. From the water, see abandoned mountain farms clinging to ledges and forested birch and pine tumbling to the shore.

Your crew and Travel Director highlight fjord ecology and village history, with chances to spot seabirds, porpoises or white-tailed eagles. The voyage reveals why this narrow channel became a symbol of Norway’s carved-by-ice coastline.

Stop at the viewpoint for Bøyabreen, a striking outlet of the Jostedalsbreen icefield. Take in the glacier tongue, fresh and ancient moraines and striated rock that illustrate the glacier’s push and retreat.

Your Travel Director interprets how ice carves valleys and feeds fjords, reading the landscape for clues to past climate. The scene pairs raw ice textures with green fields at fjord level—Norway’s contrasts in a single frame.

Choose to visit the Norwegian Glacier Museum, where interactive models and films decode how ice forms and moves, how it sculpts valleys and how scientists measure glacier mass and climate.

Hands-on exhibits tie local tongues of Jostedalsbreen to global change, clarifying why Norway’s icefields matter far beyond the fjords. This is an included choice experience; you will select it on tour in place of the Fjærland village walk.

Opt for a guided walk through Fjærland, passing wooden houses, boathouses and meadows where fjord and glacier valley meet. Hear how farming, fishing and tourism fit together in Norway’s self-reliant small communities.

Your Local Specialist shares the story of Norway’s “book town” and the rhythms of life at the end of a fjord. This is an included choice experience; you will select it on tour in place of the Glacier Museum visit.

Get acquainted with Leikanger, a village set on the wide waters of Sognefjord. Walk the shoreline and see the church, harbour and orchards nourished by the fjord’s mild microclimate.

Learn how fruit growing, small-scale farming and tourism coexist along Norway’s longest fjord. Your Travel Director highlights local produce and viewpoints that invite you to soak in the lakeside atmosphere.

Ride the Flåm Railway, a 20-kilometre branch line that climbs from sea level to 866 m on gradients as steep as 1:18. Peer from carriage windows at river gorges and waterfalls as the train threads tunnels and cliff-side ledges.

Built mid-20th century to link fjord and plateau, this engineering feat reveals Norway’s interplay of mountain design and wild scenery in a single, smoothly ascending journey.

Visit Finnegarden Farm near Voss to see how glacial soils, long summer days and a cool inland climate nurture orchards. Tour the cider house to hear how traditional and modern methods shape juices and ciders.

Taste varieties where acidity, sweetness and aroma reflect the valley’s terroir. This producer-led encounter connects Norwegian smallholding craft with today’s revived cider culture.

Explore Bergen’s harbour with a Local Specialist, taking in the fish market, Haakon’s Hall and the timber warehouses of Bryggen. See where German merchants once traded stockfish along North Sea and Baltic routes.

Thread narrow lanes between painted gables as you learn how royal power, the Hanseatic League and modern culture converged in Norway’s west-coast city framed by sea and hills.

Cross Hardangervidda, one of Europe’s largest mountain plateaus, where open moorland, scattered lakes and distant peaks stretch to the horizon. Watch as rivers and waterfalls descend towards western fjords.

Your Travel Director interprets geology, reindeer ranges and Norway’s hydropower network fed by these highlands. Windows become a moving gallery of misty mountain passes and weather-shaped rock.

Discover Oslo’s core sights, from the 19th-century Royal Palace and Akershus fortress to the angled Opera House on the Bjørvika waterfront. Continue to Frogner Park to encounter Gustav Vigeland’s vast open-air sculpture installation.

Learn how medieval ramparts, parliamentary democracy and contemporary culture meet in a compact capital ringed by forest and fjord. The Vigeland ensemble’s bronzes and granites explore the cycle of human life across bridges and terraces.

Venture north of Copenhagen to explore Kronborg Castle in Helsingør—Hamlet’s Elsinore—then continue to Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, set on lake-islands amid formal gardens. Walk grand halls rich with tapestries, portraits and the Danish royal story.

Hear how coastal fortifications controlled the Øresund and how Renaissance monarchs projected power through art and architecture. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour, subject to availability and weather.

Journey the dramatic Trollstigen road, a feat of engineering with tight hairpins, waterfalls and cantilevered platforms that offer panoramic valley views. Pause to photograph the serpentine ascent and the roar of Stigfossen.

Learn how 1930s road-building opened remote valleys and how modern viewpoints frame raw geology and alpine flora. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour, subject to conditions.

Explore Bergen’s KODE museums, where Nordic and international art—from Munch to modern design—fills elegant galleries. Afterwards ride the Fløibanen funicular up Mount Fløyen for sunset over the lagoon and the city’s seven mountains.

Discuss Bergen’s creative heritage and maritime light that inspired artists across centuries. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour, with museum line-ups and operating hours varying seasonally.

Experience Copenhagen’s enduring playground at Tivoli Gardens, opened in 1843 beside the central station. Wander lantern-lit paths between pavilions and theatres, hear live music drift across the lake and glimpse historic rides, including a century-old wooden coaster still operated by a brakeman on board.

Soak up the park’s blend of Victorian whimsy and Danish design, from Moorish-inspired facades to flowerbeds that change with the seasons. As twilight deepens, the illuminated gardens and fairground aromas create a festive mood that links past and present Copenhagen.

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