In the footsteps of the Vikings

Tour Details

Experience: Active Holiday, Self-Drive

Prices p.p from: 1150 EURO in double room

8 days / 7 nights

Guaranteed departure: Not applicable for this tour

What is included

• Car rental for the entire duration of the stay, category B
Type FORD FIESTA or similar. Including unlimited mileage, partial waiver of excess in the event of accident or theft, local taxes, 1 driver over 25 years old
• 6 nights in mentioned hotels or similar
• 1 night in a castle
• 7 breakfasts
• Crossing the Storebælt Bridge by car
• Crossing Århus – Odden by ferry, car included

 

What is excluded

• Flights
• Tolls, gasoline, car parks
• Lunches, dinners and drinks
• Carrying luggage
• Personal expenses

 

 

Day 1 Discovery of Copenhagen

Arrival at Copenhagen Airport. Discovery of the city with the charming canal district, the Town Hall Square, Christiansborg Castle, seat of government, Kongens Nytorv Square where the Royal Theater is located, the picturesque Nyhavn district, the canal which penetrates to n the heart of the city’s chic quarter (on the quays there are still colorful old merchant houses and Andersen lived there at number 67), Amalienborg Castle, residence of the royal family. Also admire the superb Gefion Fountain and pay a visit to the “Little Mermaid” sitting at the water’s edge on its block of granite, gazing out to sea.
Overnight at the Comfort Vesterbro hotel or similar.

Day 2 The castles of Zealand

Breakfast at the hotel. Departure for Hillerod. You can admire Frederiksborg Castle and its chapel. Road to Fredensborg, stop at Fredensborg Castle, summer residence of the royal family and its park. Drive to Helsingør via the coastal road of Strandvejen. Walk in Helsingør (Elsinore) to the Renaissance castle of Kronborg, whose construction dates back to 1500 and which Shakespeare made the setting of the drama of Hamlet.
Overnight at the Comfort Vesterbro hotel or similar.

Day 3 The Vikings of Roskilde

Breakfast at the hotel. Depart for Roskilde, which celebrated its 1000th anniversary in 1998. You can visit its cathedral, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You can follow in the footsteps of the Vikings, from 793 to 1069, by visiting the Drakkars museum located on the edge of the fjord, which notably exhibits a warship 31 meters long, the longest ever found. Crossing the Storebælt bridge which connects Sjælland to Funen.
Overnight at Hvedholm Castle or similar.

Day 4 H C Andersen’s Tales

Breakfast at the hotel. Opportunity to visit the Renaissance-style Egeskov castle (1554): the Egeskov fortress owes its name to the thousands of oak piles on which it was built, in the middle of a lake surrounded by a superb park made up of different gardens and a maze of bamboo. Depart for the city of Danish storyteller H.C. Andersen, Odense and the H.C. Andersen Museum. Continuation of the journey to Ribe, the oldest city in the kingdom.
Overnight at Dagmar hotel or similar.

Day 5 Jelling Runestones

Breakfast at the hotel. Road to Jelling and its runic stone site of Jelling a few kilometers west of Vejle. Near Jelling Church is one of the most important monuments of the Viking Age. Depart for Viborg, where you can admire the largest granite church in northern Europe. Continue to Ålborg and its Lindholm Høje necropolis with 700 sculptures, one of the most famous and important archaeological sites of the Viking era.
Overnight at Hotel Scheelsminde or similar.

Day 6 Meeting of the seas in Skagen

Breakfast at the hotel. Depart for North Jutland and Jammer’s Bay. Pass by the Rubjerg Knude lighthouse, perched on an impressive 90-meter cliff from where you can enjoy a magnificent landscape. Road to Skagen, a picturesque little town that inspired Danish painters of the 19th century. Continuation to Grenen, Denmark’s northernmost spectacular site, where the North Sea and the Baltic meet. Overnight at Hotel Scheelsminde or similar.

Day 7 Discovery of Århus

Breakfast at the hotel. Departure to Hobro and the Viking center of Fyrkat, one of the four most important Viking fortresses in the country. Continue to Århus, which is Denmark’s second largest city. With its more than 40,000 students, Århus is a young and dynamic city and it is also a center of art and culture. The ARoS Art Museum, with its spectacular building, has a very important collection and organizes events for all ages. The cathedral, right in the city center, is the longest in Denmark, and it is also the one with the largest organ and the greatest number of frescoes. In the Latin Quarter, near the cathedral, you will find excellent antique shops, art galleries and trendy designer boutiques. You can also explore its old town (Den Gamle By), of which around sixty identically rebuilt houses give it the living image of a trading town of yesteryear.
Overnight at Comwell Aarhus hotel or similar.

Day 8 Return cruise to Copenhagen

Breakfast at the hotel. Ferry crossing to the island of Sjælland. Arrival in Odden and continuation to Copenhagen. Return of rental vehicle and end of stay.

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