Sarek National Park is the largest area of unspoiled wilderness in Europe, a vast, roadless mountain kingdom in Swedish Lapland where 2,000-metre peaks, massive glaciers, and deeply carved U-shaped valleys create a landscape so rugged and remote that it has been called “Europe’s last wilderness.” Part of the Laponian Area UNESCO World heritage site, Sarek […]
Mullsjö Alpin is one of the best ski resorts in southern Sweden, a family-friendly ski area in the Småland region near Jönköping, offering downhill skiing, snowboarding, and a snow park that makes it the premier winter sports destination in the southern half of the country. The resort’s location, close to the E4 motorway and within […]
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Storforsen is the largest unregulated rapid in Europe, a thundering 5-kilometre-long cascade system in Swedish Lapland where the Pite River drops 82 metres through a chaos of boulders, chutes, and thundering whitewater in one of Scandinavia’s most powerful and accessible natural spectacles. Unlike most major European rapids, Storforsen has never been harnessed for hydroelectric power, […]
The spires of Drottningholm Palace rise elegantly above the manicured hedges of its French-style gardens, reflected perfectly in the still waters of Lake Mälaren. This is the private residence of the Swedish royal family, a living palace where the King and Queen have made their home since 1981, yet large sections are open to the […]
The Tanum rock carvings are one of the world’s most extraordinary prehistoric art sites, a UNESCO World heritage collection of over 1,500 Bronze Age petroglyphs etched into the glacially smoothed granite bedrock of western Sweden. Dating back 3,000 years or more, these remarkable carvings depict warriors, ships, animals, hunting scenes, and mysterious rituals that offer […]
Dumme Mosse is one of southern Sweden’s largest and most important wetlands, a vast nature reserve of peat bogs, marshes, and shallow lakes in Småland that is a critical habitat for migratory birds, including cranes that gather here in their thousands during the spring migration, creating one of Sweden’s most spectacular wildlife spectacles. The reserve, […]
Sweden is Scandinavia’s largest, most populous, and most diverse country, an open and accepting society that spans from the cosmopolitan streets of Stockholm to the Arctic wilderness of Lapland, from the sandy beaches of the Baltic island of Gotland to the vast forests and thousands of lakes that define the Swedish landscape and the national […]
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