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10  INTRODUCING SWEDEN

DISCOVERING SWEDEN

The following tours have been created to and Malmö. These tours can be done
take in a number of Sweden’s highlights. individually or combined to form a seven-
In a country the size of Sweden, some long or ten-day tour, the latter with added
distance journeys are inevitable in order suggestions. The city tours are followed by
to reach more far-flung locations such as two seven-day tours taking in some of the
Lapland; however, the itineraries endeavour most scenic parts of the country: the West
to keep travel distances realistic. To begin Coast and Southern Sweden. Finally, there is a
with, there are three two-day city tours, 14-day countrywide tour from south to north.
covering the capital Stockholm, Gothenburg Pick, choose and combine at your leisure.

Tossebergsklätten
Lapland inset
Rottneros Mårbacka
Fryken Lakes Jukkasjärvi
See inset map right
SWEDEN
VÄRMLAND
Karlstad Stockholm
Main map
Örebro Lake Gripsholms
Hjälmaren Slott
Southern Sweden inset NÄRKE SÖDERMANLAND
Nordkoster Strömstad Lake
Vänern
Bengtsfors
Sydkoster
Dalsland
Tanum Canal Köpmannebro
DALSLAND Norrköping
Fjällbacka Vitlycke Läckö Slott
Nordens Ark Linköping
Smögen
ÖSTERGÖTLAND
Lysekil BOHUS-
LÄN
Fiskebäckskil
Bohuslän VÄSTERGÖTLAND
Skärhamn
Klädesholmen Tjörn
Marstrand
Gothenburg Jönköping Västervik
Gunnebo Slott
SMÅLAND Oskarshamn
Barken Viking
Moored in Gothenburg’s inner Varberg
harbour, this four-masted barque is HALLAND
one of only a few left in the world. Växjö
A landmark, the barque has been
converted into a hotel.
Halmstad
7 days on the West Coast
BLEKINGE
Karlshamn Karlskrona
• Take a classic • Admire the Bronze
Paddan boat tour Age rock carvings at Helsingborg
in Gothenburg. Tanum, a UNESCO SKÅNE
• Spend a night at a spec- World Heritage Site.
tacular floating hotel in • Stroll the nature Lund
Klädesholmen. reserve on Sydkoster
• Visit the pretty Lysekil, and Nordkoster, Malmö
on Sweden’s only true Sweden’s westernmost Ystad
fjord, Gullmarsfjorden. inhabited islands.
Queen Christina of Sweden, surrounded by her court by Louis-Michel Dumesnil the Younger

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