Scandinavian Splendor
12 Days 18 Meals Breakfast daily 8 dinners		Itinerary at a glance:
		Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12	Overnight flight Copenhagen, Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Overnight Cruise Stalheim, Norway Stalheim, Norway Lillehammer, Norway Oslo, Norway Oslo, Norway Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm, Sweden Return flight home
Departures & Rates:    Travel Inclusions: • Call or email us for departure dates and pricing from your gateway city. • Prices are per person and based on two people sharing a twin-bedded room. • Single Room Supplement will apply. • Roundtrip air transportation from your gateway. • Personal airport VIP greeting & check-in • All transfers and luggage handling between airports and hotel • Comprehensive sightseeing throughout the itinerary • Professional, Tour Manager while on tour • Pre-departure orientation and travel docs • All tips and taxes for included services, except airport departure taxes and tips to drivers and guides.
Detailed Itinerary:
DAY 1 & 2: USA - DENMARK Once on board our jetliner, we will enjoy our in-flight services. Upon arrival in Copenhagen, our Tour Manager, a native Scandinavian, who will take us to our hotel, will meet us. (Inflight meals) DAY 3: COPENHAGEN This morning’s sightseeing tour will introduce us to many attractions in this great city. Our local, English-speaking Danish guide will show us Christiansborg Palace, Radhus (City Hall), and the harbor district. We will see the changing of the guard at the Amalienborg Palace, and the official winter residence of the Danish kings and queens. Of course, our tour will include a visit to the city’s most famous resident — the Little Mermaid, sitting on her rock beside the harbor. This evening, enjoy a welcome dinner with your fellow passengers. (B,D) DAY 4: COPENHAGEN - CRUISE During our free time this morning, go shopping, visit Kronborg Castle or take a hydrofoil to Malmo. Later this afternoon, we will travel to the pier to board the steamer for our overnight cruise to Oslo. Our cabins offer full facilities. The ship sails in the narrow passage of Oresund with Sweden and Denmark on either side of the ship. Enjoy dinner aboard the ship. (B,D) DAY 5: OSLO - STALHEIM We arrive in Oslo this morning where we meet our coach for our trip to Stalheim. Travel into the spectacular Norwegian countryside with its charming villages, beautiful waterfalls, jagged mountains and deep fjords. We will board a train for the thrilling ride on the world famous Flam Railway. During the train ride we will descend 3,000 feet within 12 miles, passing thundering waterfalls and towering mountain cliffs to the village of Flam. After enjoying quaint Flam, we will re-board our coach and continue to Stalheim with dinner tonight at our hotel. (B,D) DAY 6: STALHEIM Our day is at leisure for relaxing, shopping or an optional excursion to Bergen, Norway, a picturesque harbor city and birthplace of Norwegian composer, Edvard Greig. Dinner tonight is at our hotel. (B,D) DAY 7: STALHEIM - LILLEHAMMER After breakfast we’ll drive to Gudvangen where we board our local ferry for a spectacular two-hour ride on the famous Sognefjord. The fjord’s sides are sheer rock cliffs that tower 2,000 feet, decorated with hundreds of plunging waterfalls and tantalizing cascades. We’ll disembark in Laerdal and continue on to the Borgund Stave Church. The Stave churches were built in the middle ages, and only 24 of the original 600 have survived. Later in the afternoon we will continue through the countryside to Lillehammer where dinner is waiting at our hotel. (B,D) DAY 8: LILLEHAMMER - OSLO Visit Lillehammer this morning and later ride through the rich countryside. Picturesque views await us as we pass farmlands and lakes en route to Oslo. On arrival in Oslo, we will enjoy a full tour. Founded by Viking King Harald in 1050, it is situated at the tip of lovely Oslo Fjord and is encircled by wooded hills and beautiful harbor. We will see the Vigeland sculptures at Frogner Park and Holmenkoll Hill with its world-renowned ski jump, Oslo’s City Hall with its Twin Towers, a cathedral from 1649, the Parliament, Royal Palace and National Theater. (B,D) DAY 9: OSLO This morning enjoy a tour of the Viking Ship Museum, which contains a 1,000-year-old Viking ship and archeological finds from Viking times such as wagons, rowing boats, tools, sledges, etc. Our afternoon is at leisure to explore or just relax. (B) DAY 10: OSLO - STOCKHOLM This morning we are transferred to the train station for our train ride to Stockholm, Sweden. We will see many breathtaking sights as we make our way through the Norwegian and Swedish countryside. (B,D) DAY 11: STOCKHOLM Our sightseeing tour this morning includes historical highlights, landmarks and the beauty of the city. Stockholm is known as the Venice of the North and is built partly on an archipelago of 14 islands. Visit the magnificent City Hall’s Golden Chamber with over 18 million gold mosaic stones. See the cobblestoned Old Town Section, filled with antique shops and a Bohemian spirit. See Riddarhom Church where the Swedish kings are buried. The afternoon is free to explore the city. Take in the 17th century warship Vasa, housed in a museum specially constructed for it. This magnificently restored ship sunk to the bottom of Stockholm harbor as it was being launched before thousands of onlookers. The museum will give you an insight into Scandinavian seafaring life. Tonight we have a Farewell Dinner at a local restaurant. (B,D) DAY 12: STOCKHOLM - USA Say goodbye to Scandinavia this morning as we transfer to the airport for our flight home with warm memories of new places and friends. (B,Inflight meals)