14-Nights Spectacular Scandinavia and its Fjords - Small Group

14 nights from: $8,575

Spectacular Scandinavia And Its Fjords - Small Group
Travel from Copenhagen to Oslo on a Small Group tour through the capitals, harbors and fjord country of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Explore Copenhagen, Stockholm, Bergen and Oslo with your Travel Director and Local Experts, spending time in royal districts, historic waterfronts and new cultural neighborhoods. Between the cities, you’ll ride the Flåm Railway, cross the Hardangervidda plateau and sail Geirangerfjord, pausing at a stave church, former mining towns and lakeside villages. Along the way, meet family-run producers in Voss, join fika in Gränna and visit glacier researchers in Fjærland, keeping local life and landscape at the center of the trip.

Dining Summary

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

• Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

• Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
• Hotel and restaurant tips are included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. We also include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
• We carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel door.
• From time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with an Insight Flourish, which is a local specialty representing the destination.
• Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi (where available).
• If your arrival and/or departure flights are as per the itinerary start and end dates, then transfers are available at scheduled times. If your flights are outside these times, or you have booked additional nights accommodation with Insight Vacations, you may purchase transfers or make your own way from/to the airport.

• Copenhagen: Visit Tivoli Gardens, opened in 1843 as a public pleasure garden beside Copenhagen’s central station. Walk the landscaped paths between pavilions, theaters and restaurants and see historic rides, including one of the world’s oldest wooden roller coasters, still operating with a brakeman on board.
• Copenhagen: Join your Local Expert to understand the city through its key sites, from the Little Mermaid statue on the harbourfront to Christiansborg Palace, seat of the Danish parliament. You’ll view Rosenborg Castle and Amalienborg Palace, walk the 17th-century Nyhavn waterfront and see Copenhagen Cathedral and the Round Tower that served as an observatory.
• Gothenburg: Join your Local Expert in Gothenburg for lunch at Feskekörka, the city’s 19th-century fish market hall, where a fish bun reflects the west coast’s long connection to seafood and harbor 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.
• Stockholm (Solna): Explore Stockholm with your Local Expert, moving from Gamla Stan, where many streets and buildings date from the 13th–17th centuries, to later civic and waterfront districts. You’ll see Stockholm Cathedral and view a capital planned across 14 islands, established as Sweden’s political center from the 17th century.
• Stockholm (Solna): Visit Stockholm City Hall, completed in the early 20th century in National Romantic style. You’ll step into the brick-built Blue Hall, site of the Nobel Banquet, then continue to the Golden Hall, where mosaics made from glass and gold leaf depict episodes from Swedish history and mythology.
• Falun: Join your Travel Director for an orientation of Falun, home to its famous copper mine. You’ll view the vast mine crater that sits beside the town and see how historic workers’ housing and streets developed around this industrial site, now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage landscape.
• Salen: Get your bearings in one of Sweden’s key alpine resort areas and the starting point of the long-distance Vasaloppet ski race. Your Travel Director will highlight how the village and its facilities serve winter sports and year-round outdoor activities in the surrounding mountains.
• Lillehammer: Join your Travel Director for an orientation of Lillehammer, set above Lake Mjøsa. You’ll see the town center and Olympic landmarks from the 1994 Winter Games, and learn how this former market town developed into a hub for winter sports and outdoor life in Gudbrandsdalen.
• Lom: View Lom stave church, one of Norway’s largest surviving stave churches, with origins around 1158. You’ll see its tiered wooden structure, carved portals and later extensions that show how the building adapted over centuries while retaining its medieval timber frame.
• Geiranger: Join your Travel Director for an orientation of Geiranger, set at the head of a UNESCO-listed fjord. You’ll note how the harbor, hillside roads, viewpoints and walking paths connect the village with the steep surrounding landscape.
• Geiranger: Cruise along Geirangerfjord, part of a UNESCO World Heritage area known for its narrow channel, high walls and waterfalls such as the Seven Sisters. From the water you’ll see abandoned mountain farms, forested slopes of birch and pine and may spot seabirds, porpoises or white-tailed eagles in the fjord.
• Fjaerland: Stop at the viewpoint for Bøyabreen, an outlet of the Jostedalsbreen icefield. From here y
  See more packages & deals for Scandinavia

Site of the 1994 Winter Olympic games, Lillehammer is at the northern end of Lake Mjøsa. It is a commercial center for the fertile Gudbrandsdalen valley and is a popular summer and winter resort. Its open-air museum, Maihaugen (founded 1887), features complete farms, peasant cottages, workshops, and handicrafts of the region.

Lillehammer Travel Agents