
SCANDINAVIA
- DAY 01 : ARRIVE HELSINKI
Arrive Helsinki airport complete your immigration and customs formalities. Then proceed to hotel and check in. Indian dinner.
- DAY 02 : HELSINKI-STOCKHOLM – OVERNIGHT CRUISE
Breakfast. Late morning do a city tour shows us Finlandia Hall, the Senate and Market Squares, broad boulevards and domed Russian Church. Late afternoon transfer to port for an overnight Cruise on Color line to Stockholm. Fun, entertainment and dinner on board.
- DAY 03 : STOCKHOLM-OREBRO – 200 Kms / 2 ½ hrs driving time
Morning, on arrival at the Swedish Capital Stockholm …“Beauty on Water”, free time near the palace / pedestrian area behind it for shopping or at leisure. Afternoon proceed for a city tour.
See Fjällgatan Viewpoint, Royal Palace (from outside), Old Town, Kings Garden, City Hall (from outside) and Vasa Museum. Then drive to Orebro. Arrive Orebro check into hotel.
Long daylight hours allow further explorations on your own.
- DAY 04 : STOCKHOLM-GJOVIK-HAMAR- 360 Kms – 5 ½ hrs driving time
Morning breakfast. Drive through the Swedish Lake district to Arvika, continue to Hamar in Norway, via Gjovik across the mountains to Laerdal and Sognedal. Have your cameras and reels ready from today.
- DAY 05 : HAMAR-VOSS - 330 kms – 5 hrs
Spectacular scenic feast today as we drive to Flam . Enroute Scenic Fjord cruise from Gudvangen to Flam.
Arrive Flam, we board the world famous Flam scenic railway for a breathtaking journey. For 50 minutes the view through the carriage window is a constantly changing panorama of sky-high snow covered mountains, thundering waterfalls and green pastures at the bottom of the valley. And in this background comes out a ‘Fairy’ and dances to music. Continue to Myrdal, where we change over to a local train and travel to Voss. Check into hotel.
- DAY 06 : AT VOSS – EXCURSION TO BERGEN
Morning drive to Bergen… Norway’s most naturally beautiful city with its bustling harbour, flea market for bargain shopping and the colored row houses. Follows a visit to Flojen mountain by the funicular rail for a superb view of Bergen Fjord and surrounding area. Dinner at Indian restaurant. Long daylight hours allows further exploration. Then return to Voss.
- DAY 07 : VOSS-GEILO-OSLO - 420 kms – 6 hrs
Morning we drive to Oslo Via Geilo. A short crossing on the Hardanger fjord. The scenery is a bit like the landscape inside the Arctic Circle. Water Falls enroute. Great scenery. Continue your drive to the Viking capital of Oslo. It is also the seat of the Nobel Prize committee. Dinner at Indian restaurant.
- DAY 08 : OSLO-COPENHAGEN– OVERNIGHT CRUISE
Morning we take you on a sightseeing tour of the swank Norwegian Capital with an English speaking guide for a Panoramic City tour including the Holmenkollen Skijump, Royal Palace, Karl Johan, Viking Museum and the famous Vigeland Sculpture Park where you will have some free time to admire the Array of modern sculptures, Akers Brygge and other major sights. Late afternoon transfer to the pier to board your cruise ship for a memorable overnight cruise to the Danish capital Copenhagen. Plenty of entertainment, casino, disco and duty free shopping facilities available. Dinner is served on board.
- DAY 09 : ARRIVE COPENHAGEN
Scandinavian buffet breakfast on board ship. On arrival proceed for a City Sightseeing of Copenhagen, see the Stock-exchange, Amalienborg Palace where Denmark’s ‘Cycling Monarchy’ –informal, accessible and unstuffy, has its city home, the Little Mermaid … Denmark’s most famous landmarks, Ströget Shopping Street. Then check into hotel.
Afternoon visit the Oresund bridge spanning 7845 mts …. A technological marvel connecting Copenhagen and Malmo in Sweden.
Evening transfer to visit the Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli Gardens is a cross between a Old Fashion funfair, a series of Beer Gardens, sophisticated open air restaurants, concert houses, dance halls and Manicured Gardens. Evening is free to feel Copenhagen… walk down the Stroget … the pedestrian street. Window shop only. Dinner at Indian restaurant.
- DAY 10 : DEPART COPENHAGEN
Then transfer to airport for your flight to India.