Spectacular Scandinavia and its Fjords - Small Group
from USD 8575
Transfer Airport
- ARR Chargeable Trf Copenhagen Airport to Hotel
- Arrival Transfer Copenhagen Airport to Hotel
Td Tips
- Prepaid Gratuities YE941 Small Group
Gold Seal Protection
- Gold Seal Protection
Transfer Airport
- DEP Chargeable Transfer Hotel to Oslo Airport
- Departure Transfer Hotel to Oslo Airport
Dining Summary
- 7 Dinner (D)
- 14 Breakfast (B)
- 1 Lunch (L)
Choice Highlights
- Choose between two carefully selected activities
- Fjaerland: Visit the Norwegian Glacier Museum in Fjærland, which presents Norway’s glaciers and the Jostedalsbreen icefield through interactive models, films and exhibits. You’ll see how ice forms and moves, how it shapes valleys and fjords, and how scientists monitor changes in glacier mass and climate.
- Fjaerland: Walk through Fjærland with your Local Expert, passing wooden houses, boathouses and fields between the fjord and the glacier valley. You’ll hear how farming, fishing, tourism and the village’s role as Norway’s “book town” fit together in a small community at the end of a fjord.
Additional Included Highlights
- 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.
Authentic Dining
- Copenhagen: Meet your Travel Director and small group travellers at dinner in Copenhagen. Enjoy Nordic dishes built on seasonal local produce and simple, well-balanced flavours.
- Falun: Dine at a local restaurant in Falun that works closely with nearby farms and producers. Expect a seasonal menu that reflects central Sweden’s ingredients, from vegetables and dairy to meats and preserves drawn from the surrounding countryside.
- Voss Municipality: Visit Finnegarden Farm near Voss to see how glacial soils and a cool inland climate support fruit orchards. You’ll tour the farm and cider house, hear how traditional and modern pressing methods are used and taste juices and ciders where acidity, sweetness and aroma reflect the local growing conditions.
- Oslo: Join your small group and Travel Director for dinner in Oslo, reminisce over highlights from the tour and raise a toast to your journey together.
Insight Choice
- Fjaerland: Visit the Norwegian Glacier Museum in Fjærland, which presents Norway’s glaciers and the Jostedalsbreen icefield through interactive models, films and exhibits. You’ll see how ice forms and moves, how it shapes valleys and fjords, and how scientists monitor changes in glacier mass and climate.
- Fjaerland: Walk through Fjærland with your Local Expert, passing wooden houses, boathouses and fields between the fjord and the glacier valley. You’ll hear how farming, fishing, tourism and the village’s role as Norway’s “book town” fit together in a small community at the end of a fjord.
Insight Experiences
Uppsala: Meet local storyteller Hans Odoo in Uppsala to explore the story of Carl Linnaeus and his garden. You’ll hear how this 18th-century botanist organised plants by their characteristics and geography, turning the space into a model for scientific classification.
Make Travel Matter
Graenna: Meet Mattias at his family-run cafe in an 18th-century wooden house, where you’ll share fika with coffee and pastries from local farms and producers, and learn how the cafe helps fund preservation of regional 18th-century memorabilia and artefacts. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Top Rated Highlights
- Copenhagen: Visit Tivoli Gardens, opened in 1843 as a public pleasure garden beside Copenhagen’s central station. Walk the landscaped paths between pavilions, theatres 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 harbour 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 centre 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 recognised 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 centre 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 harbour, 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 you’ll see the glacier tongue, moraines and exposed rock, with clear evidence of past ice levels and recent retreat that illustrates how glaciers advance and shrink over time.
- Leikanger: Join your Travel Director for an orientation of Leikanger on the shores of Sognefjord. See the village church, waterfront and surrounding orchards, and learn how the area’s mild fjord climate supports fruit growing and small-scale farming alongside tourism.
- Flam Railway: Ride the Flåm Railway, a 20-kilometre branch line linking Flåm on Aurlandsfjord with the Bergen Railway. Built in the mid-20th century, it climbs from sea level to 866 m (2,841 ft) with gradients as steep as 1:18 and a series of tunnels, giving clear views of the valley, river and waterfalls.
- Bergen: Explore Bergen with your Local Expert, tracing its history from an 11th-century royal settlement to a key Hanseatic trading port. View the fish market, Haakon’s Hall and the timber warehouses of Bryggen, where German merchants once handled stockfish and goods moving along North Sea and Baltic routes.
- Hardangervidda: Follow the road across Hardangervidda, one of Europe’s largest mountain plateaus, with open moorland, scattered lakes and distant peaks, linking Norway’s western fjords with inland valleys.
- Oslo: Explore Oslo with your Local Expert, viewing the 19th-century Royal Palace and the medieval Akershus fortress that guarded the harbour. Continue through the city centre to see Karl Johans gate and the Stortinget Parliament building before reaching the Opera House and Bjørvika waterfront, where former docklands have been redeveloped into a cultural district.
- Oslo: Visit Frogner Park to see Gustav Vigeland’s permanent sculpture installation, with more than 200 bronze and granite works arranged along bridges, terraces and the Monolith plateau.
Well-being
- 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.
- Radisson Blu Scandinavia, Copenhagen
- Elite Park Avenue, Gothenburg
- Scandic Grand Central (Superior rooms), Stockholm
- First Grand, Falun
- Scandic Lillehammer
- Union Geiranger
- Leikanger Fjord
- Scandic Ørnen
- Radisson Blu Scandinavia, Oslo
Arrive in Copenhagen, a compact capital shaped by sea trade, civic planning and Danish design. Meet your Travel Director and fellow small group travellers over dinner and drinks to get to know the group and your journey ahead. Later, you’ll visit Tivoli Gardens by night. Opened in 1843, it remains one of Europe’s oldest amusement parks, set around gardens, pavilions and performance venues, with illuminated walkways and classic rides still woven into the original plan.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Radisson Blu Scandinavia, Copenhagen
Explore Copenhagen with your Local Expert, who will set the city’s royal, political and harbour districts in context as you view the Little Mermaid, Christiansborg Palace, Rosenborg Castle, Amalienborg Palace, Nyhavn, Copenhagen Cathedral and the Round Tower. In the afternoon you’ll have time at leisure to explore further, perhaps visiting a museum, browsing design shops or following the waterfront on foot or by bicycle. Perhaps join an Optional Experience into the countryside north of the city to discover the castles of North Zealand, where royal residences and coastal landscapes show a different side of Denmark.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Radisson Blu Scandinavia, Copenhagen
Travel into Sweden and on to Gothenburg, a harbour city shaped by North Sea trade and 17th-century fortifications. Here, join a walking tour that brings together local food traditions and the city’s trading history, from a fish bun lunch at Feskekörka to sweet tastings in the market hall with your Local Expert. The rest of the day is at leisure; explore the Haga district’s wooden houses, visit an art or maritime museum or spend longer by the harbour.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Elite Park Avenue, Gothenburg
Travel through Sweden’s lake district, following the shores of Lake Vättern towards Stockholm. You’ll pause above the town of Gränna at Grännaberget cafe for a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience, meeting Mattias at his family-run 18th-century cafe. Here you’ll take part in fika, the Swedish custom of pausing for coffee and something sweet, with pastries from local farms and producers. Continue to Stockholm, Sweden’s Baltic capital spread across 14 islands with a preserved medieval centre on Gamla Stan.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Scandic Grand Central (Superior rooms), Stockholm
Explore Stockholm with your Local Expert, moving between the medieval streets of Gamla Stan and the city’s later civic districts. You’ll see Stockholm Cathedral and visit City Hall to view the Blue Hall, where the Nobel Banquet is held, and the Golden Hall lined with mosaics. The rest of the day is at leisure. Perhaps visit the Vasa Museum or Skansen on Djurgården, take a harbour boat tour or spend longer exploring Gamla Stan’s side streets and viewpoints.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Scandic Grand Central (Superior rooms), Stockholm
Travel north to Uppsala, a historic university city and former religious centre. You’ll meet local storyteller Hans Odoo to hear how Carl Linnaeus used his garden here as a living laboratory, arranging plants by species and origin and shaping modern botany. Continue through Sweden’s lake and forest landscapes to Falun, where your day ends with a Farm-to-Table dinner at a local restaurant focused on regional produce and seasonal dishes.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: First Grand, Falun
Visit the Falun copper mine and pit, a historic industrial site that shaped Sweden’s economy for centuries. Travel onwards towards Mora, following the shores of Lake Siljan, then continue through the Dalarna landscape to Sälen, where your Travel Director will lead an orientation of this key alpine resort area. Cross into Norway, passing Hamar on the shores of Lake Mjøsa, one of the country’s largest lakes. Arrive in Lillehammer and join your Travel Director for an orientation that links the main street, traditional wooden buildings and Olympic venues with the wider Gudbrandsdalen valley.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Scandic Lillehammer
Travel through Gudbrandsdalen, often associated with the Peer Gynt legends, following valley and mountain scenery towards the inner fjords. Pause at Lom to view its stave church, a 12th-century wooden structure dating from around 1158 that illustrates medieval Norwegian timber construction and church life in the high valleys. Continue across the mountain roads to Geiranger, a fjord village noted for its steep slopes and waterfalls, where you’ll stay for the next two nights.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Union Geiranger
Spend a free day in Geiranger. You could follow marked paths to viewpoints above the village and along the fjord, join a boat trip or kayak outing on Geirangerfjord, or visit the Norwegian Fjord Centre to see how farms and routes developed on the steep slopes. You can also choose an Optional Experience that drives the Trollstigen mountain road, known for its engineered hairpin bends, waterfalls and viewing platforms.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Union Geiranger
Start the day with a cruise along Geirangerfjord, as you sail past steep rock walls, waterfalls and former farmsteads in this UNESCO-listed fjord landscape. Travel by road towards Fjærland and pause at Bøyabreen glacier for a photo stop at one of the most accessible arms of the Jostedalsbreen icefield. Explore Fjærland with Insight Choice. Choose between visiting the Norwegian Glacier Museum, a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience focused on glacier science and climate, or join a walk with your Local Expert to hear about life between fjord and glacier. Continue to your fjord hotel in Leikanger for dinner featuring fresh, locally sourced produce.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Leikanger Fjord
Cross Sognefjord and follow the valley to Flåm to board the Flåm Railway, climbing from the fjord to the mountain plateau on one of the world’s steepest standard-gauge lines. Travel on to Voss to visit Finnegarden Farm, where glacial soils, a cool inland climate and long summer days support orchards that supply distinctive juices and ciders. Your day ends in Bergen, a former Hanseatic trading port marked by its harbour warehouses and surrounding hills at the edge of Norway’s main fjord region.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Scandic Ørnen
Explore Bergen with your Local Expert, taking in the fish market, Haakon’s Hall and the timber warehouses of Bryggen that reflect the city’s Hanseatic past. With your small group, you’ll move between the harbour and surrounding streets to see how the city sits between sea and hills. The rest of the day is at leisure; perhaps walk the lanes of Bryggen and the Nordnes peninsula, visit the aquarium or spend time in the city’s shops and galleries. You may choose an Optional Experience to visit the KODE art museums before taking the Fløibanen funicular up Mount Floyen to take in the view over Bergen and the surrounding fjords.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Scandic Ørnen
Travel from Bergen to Oslo across southern Norway, following a route that moves from fjord inlets and islands to high plateaus and inland valleys. You’ll cross Hardangervidda, one of Europe’s largest mountain plateaus, with open moorland, scattered lakes and distant peaks, then descend past rivers and waterfalls that feed Norway’s hydropower system. Forests, farmland and small towns around the Oslofjord basin signal the approach to the capital, where your day ends with an evening at leisure; perhaps walk along the Aker Brygge and Tjuvholmen waterfront, see the angles of the Oslo Opera House from the harbour or spend time on Karl Johans gate between the station and the Royal Palace.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Radisson Blu Scandinavia, Oslo
Explore Oslo with your Local Expert, taking in the Royal Palace, Akershus Castle and the sculptures in Frogner Park that make up Gustav Vigeland’s large-scale outdoor installation. Move down to the harbour to see the Opera House and the regenerated Bjørvika neighbourhood, where new cultural buildings and waterfront promenades reshape the former docks. The rest of the day is at leisure; perhaps return to Karl Johans gate or the Aker Brygge area for last souvenirs or a final walk by the water. This evening, join your small group and Travel Director for dinner to mark the end of your journey through Scandinavia.
Duration: 1 Day
Accommodation: Radisson Blu Scandinavia, Oslo
Your journey through Scandinavia comes to an end in Oslo, say goodbye to your small group and Travel Director before your onward travel.
Duration: 1 Day
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