More Treasures to Visit in Denmark and Sweden

I have family in Denmark and have been over to visit a number of times in my life. I very much agree with the sentiment that it’s a slower-paced, less flashy place to visit, but richly rewarding for the right kind of traveler. For an even more comprehensive visit to Sjælland, one might consider the undersea train to Malmö, Sweden, just across the Øresund or heading north from Copenhagen to Helsingør & Hamlet’s castle, where actors perform vignettes from the play around the castle. There’s even more to see on the mainland in Jylland: Aarhus is a rewarding second city experience and features Den Gamle By for a window into older ways of life; the shifting sand dunes on the coasts up toward Skagen, the point where the seas meet, are stunning; Thy National Park is on the northwest coast; and down south you’ll find the Jelling Stones, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (and source of the rune for King Harald Bluetooth, which appears ubiquitously today as the bluetooth symbol on electronic devices).