Get to know Sälen with your Travel Director in one of Sweden’s best-known alpine resort areas. See how the village and its facilities support skiing and other activities in the surrounding mountain landscape.

Sälen is the starting point of the long-distance Vasaloppet ski race, a major fixture in Swedish sporting culture. This orientation puts the resort’s winter-sports identity and year-round outdoor life into context.

Cruise along Geirangerfjord between high rock walls and waterfalls, including the celebrated Seven Sisters. From the water, look towards former mountain farmsteads set improbably on the slopes.

Part of the West Norwegian Fjords UNESCO World Heritage area, this narrow waterway was carved by glaciers. Forested hillsides and sheer cliffs give the cruise its scale, while wildlife such as seabirds or white-tailed eagles may be seen along the fjord.

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

• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

• 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.

Insight Vacations

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

Meet your Travel Director and fellow small-group travellers over dinner and drinks in Copenhagen. Share Nordic dishes shaped by seasonal produce and the region’s preference for fresh, balanced flavours.

This hosted meal offers a relaxed introduction to the people travelling with you and to Denmark’s contemporary food culture, where local ingredients and simple preparation take centre stage.

Explore Tivoli Gardens after dark, when illuminated paths wind between landscaped gardens, theatres, restaurants and historic rides in central Copenhagen. Opened in 1843, the pleasure garden remains closely woven into the life of the city.

Look for its wooden roller coaster, which still operates with a brakeman aboard. The blend of traditional attractions, planted spaces and evening lights gives Tivoli a character distinct from a modern theme park.

Explore Copenhagen with a Local Expert, viewing the Little Mermaid on the harbourfront and the royal and political landmarks of Christiansborg Palace, Rosenborg Castle and Amalienborg Palace.

Walk beside the colourful facades of 17th-century Nyhavn, once a working waterfront. Your guide connects these varied settings to the city’s history of monarchy, government and maritime trade, making this a broad introduction to the Danish capital.

Explore Gothenburg on foot with a Local Expert and taste a fish bun at Feskekorka, the city’s distinctive 19th-century fish market hall. Sweet tastings, such as ice cream or fika, add another flavour of local life.

As you walk among canals and streets laid out in the 17th century, hear how harbour commerce shaped Sweden’s west-coast city. The combination of seafood, market traditions and urban history makes this more than a conventional sightseeing walk.

Share Swedish fika with Mattias at his family-run café in an 18th-century wooden house above Gränna. Pause for coffee and pastries sourced from local farms and producers while taking in the setting near Lake Vättern.

Learn how the café helps fund the preservation of regional 18th-century artefacts and memorabilia. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® visit connects a familiar Swedish custom with the care of local heritage.

Explore Stockholm with a Local Expert, moving through Gamla Stan’s medieval streets and later civic districts in a capital spread across 14 islands. See Stockholm Cathedral before stepping inside City Hall.

In the brick-built Blue Hall, picture the annual Nobel Banquet; in the Golden Hall, examine mosaics made with glass and gold leaf that depict Swedish history and mythology. Together, the old town and City Hall reveal different centuries of the capital’s public life.

Meet local storyteller Hans Odoo in Uppsala to explore the work of Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century botanist whose methods helped shape modern biological classification. Hear how he used his garden as a living laboratory.

Linnaeus arranged and studied plants by their characteristics and origins, turning careful observation into a systematic way of understanding nature. The encounter brings scientific history to life in the Swedish university city where he worked.

Dine at a local restaurant in Falun that works with nearby farms and producers. Enjoy a seasonal menu reflecting central Sweden’s ingredients, which may draw on regional vegetables, dairy, meats and preserves.

Rather than a routine hotel meal, this dinner offers a taste of the surrounding countryside and the people who supply its kitchens. The focus on seasonal produce gives a grounded introduction to the food traditions of Dalarna.

Visit Falun’s historic copper mine and pit and join your Travel Director for an orientation of the town that grew around it. View the vast mine crater and see how workers’ housing and streets developed beside the industrial site.

Copper production influenced Sweden’s economy for centuries. The mine and its surrounding cultural landscape are UNESCO World Heritage-listed, offering a tangible picture of how industry shaped everyday life as well as the nation’s wealth.

Explore Lillehammer with your Travel Director, taking in its town centre, traditional wooden buildings and landmarks associated with the 1994 Winter Olympics. The town sits above Lake Mjøsa at the gateway to the Gudbrandsdalen valley.

Hear how a former market town became a centre for winter sports and outdoor life. Its older streets and Olympic legacy show two distinct sides of this Norwegian mountain-community setting.

View Lom stave church, one of Norway’s largest surviving medieval wooden churches. Look for its tiered rooflines, carved portals and timber construction, with origins dating to around 1158.

Later extensions show how the building changed to serve its community while retaining its medieval frame. Set among Norway’s high valleys, the church offers a close look at a distinctive architectural tradition; the tour describes an exterior viewing rather than entry.

Discover Geiranger with your Travel Director at the head of a steep-sided fjord within a UNESCO-listed landscape. Get your bearings around the harbour and see how hillside roads, viewpoints and walking paths connect the small village to its surroundings.

The orientation highlights the unusual relationship between settlement and terrain here: buildings cluster by the water while farms, routes and viewpoints occupy the slopes above.

Stop at the Bøyabreen viewpoint near Fjærland to see a glacier tongue descending from the Jostedalsbreen icefield. Take photographs of the ice, exposed rock and surrounding valley from this accessible viewing area.

Moraines and marks left by earlier ice levels help illustrate how glaciers shape landscapes and change over time. This is a viewpoint stop, offering a clear perspective on the glacier without a walk onto the ice.

Choose to visit the Norwegian Glacier Museum in Fjærland as one of two included Insight Choice activities. Explore interactive models, films and exhibits about Norway’s glaciers and the nearby Jostedalsbreen icefield.

Learn how ice forms and moves, how it carves valleys and fjords, and how researchers monitor glacier mass and climate change. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience offers a science-focused perspective on the landscapes encountered throughout the fjord region.

Choose a guided walk through Fjærland with a Local Expert as one of two included Insight Choice activities. Pass wooden houses, boathouses and fields in the small community between the fjord and glacier valley.

Hear how farming, fishing and tourism coexist here, and discover Fjærland’s identity as Norway’s “book town”. This people-focused alternative to the Glacier Museum reveals how residents make a home in a landscape shaped by water, mountains and ice.

Get to know Leikanger with your Travel Director on the shores of Sognefjord. See the village church, waterfront and orchards that distinguish this small fjordside community.

Learn how the relatively mild climate beside the fjord supports fruit growing and small-scale farming alongside tourism. The orientation offers a closer look at settled life in the region, beyond its mountain and waterfall scenery.

Ride the Flåm Railway from the Aurlandsfjord area into the mountains, watching the valley, river and waterfalls unfold through the train windows. The 20-kilometre line climbs from sea level to 866 metres.

Built in the mid-20th century with tunnels and gradients as steep as 1:18, this engineering feat links Flåm with the Bergen Railway. Its sharp ascent makes the journey a distinctive way to experience Norway’s fjord-to-mountain terrain.

Tour Finnegarden Farm near Voss and visit its cider house to learn how local fruit becomes juice and cider. Taste the finished drinks and notice how acidity, sweetness and aroma vary.

Hear how glacial soils, a cool inland climate and long summer days support the orchards, and how traditional and modern pressing methods are used. The visit connects the fjord region’s physical landscape to the work and flavours of a family-run producer.

Explore Bergen with a Local Expert, viewing the fish market, medieval Haakon’s Hall and the timber warehouses of Bryggen. Walk around the harbour and nearby streets to see how the city occupies the narrow space between sea and hills.

Founded as a royal settlement in the 11th century, Bergen became a major Hanseatic trading port. Bryggen recalls the German merchants who handled stockfish and other goods along North Sea and Baltic routes.

Travel across Hardangervidda, one of Europe’s largest mountain plateaus, on a scenic route linking Norway’s western fjords with its inland valleys. Watch for open moorland, scattered lakes and distant peaks.

The broad, exposed terrain contrasts sharply with the steep-sided fjords. This landscape-focused crossing offers a sense of the scale and variety of southern Norway’s high country, with changing views from the road.

Explore Oslo with a Local Expert, viewing the Royal Palace, Akershus fortress and civic landmarks around Karl Johans gate. See the Opera House and regenerated Bjørvika waterfront, where cultural buildings now occupy former docklands.

Visit Frogner Park’s Vigeland installation to encounter more than 200 bronze and granite sculptures arranged across bridges and terraces. Together, the historic centre, modern harbour and monumental outdoor art reveal different expressions of Norway’s capital.

Join your small group and Travel Director for dinner in Oslo to mark your shared journey through Scandinavia. Raise a toast and exchange favourite memories from the cities, villages and fjord landscapes.

This hosted gathering is a chance to reconnect with fellow travellers around the table. Its distinctive feature is the company and conversation: a shared close to a small-group experience rather than an independent restaurant meal.

Explore the castles of North Zealand on an optional excursion into the countryside north of Copenhagen. Discover a region where royal residences sit among coastal and rural landscapes, offering a different perspective on Denmark beyond the capital.

The itinerary does not name specific castles or confirm interior entry, so the precise visits should be checked with your Travel Director. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Travel the Trollstigen mountain road on an optional excursion from the Geiranger area. Its tightly engineered hairpin bends climb through dramatic mountain scenery, with waterfalls and viewing platforms along the route.

The road’s design makes the ascent part of the experience, revealing how transport routes negotiate Norway’s steep terrain. This excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour; its operation may depend on road and weather conditions.

Visit Bergen’s KODE art museums on an optional excursion combining the city’s cultural collections with a ride on the Fløibanen funicular up Mount Fløyen. From the summit, take in views across Bergen, its harbour and surrounding landscape.

The pairing lets you compare the city’s artistic heritage with its striking setting between hills and sea. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.