Denmark Country Overview
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Country Overview
This wonderful country of festivals, ancient castles, and buzzing cities is all that and much more.
The countryside is beautiful, and the people civilised, progressive and tolerant and all visions of terrible horned Vikings ravaging cities and fair maidens disappear in the foaming tankards of beer slugged back in the company of these festive friendly folk.
Daily Budget
Denmark has an extensive network of camping grounds and hostels where you can prepare your own meals, and if you take advantage of them it is just possible to scrape by on US$30 a day, but to stay in budget hotels and patronize inexpensive restaurants then up the kitty to about US$65-75 a day. If you are thinking of hiring a car, then make sure you do in Germany rather than Denmark, as over the border the costs are a third less.
When to Go!
Winter, with its short, cold days is possibly not the best time to visit Denmark, but in April when the weather starts warming and the days lengthening, venues begin wakening and readying themselves for the tourist onslaught. In October peace settles and quiet descends once more. In May and June the countryside is picturesque with fields of green covered with wild flowers. Tourists enjoy open-air concerts, and sunning themselves on beaches during the peak season of July and August.
Beginning on the first Saturday in September, the nine-day Århus Festival brings revelry, music and drama to the city, drawing thousands of Danish and International visitors, and one of northern Europe's most popular rock festivals the Roskilde Festival is held in June.
Daily Budget
Denmark has an extensive network of camping grounds and hostels where you can prepare your own meals, and if you take advantage of them it is just possible to scrape by on US$30 a day, but to stay in budget hotels and patronize inexpensive restaurants then up the kitty to about US$65-75 a day. If you are thinking of hiring a car, then make sure you do in Germany rather than Denmark, as over the border the costs are a third less.
When to Go!
Winter, with its short, cold days is possibly not the best time to visit Denmark, but in April when the weather starts warming and the days lengthening, venues begin wakening and readying themselves for the tourist onslaught. In October peace settles and quiet descends once more. In May and June the countryside is picturesque with fields of green covered with wild flowers. Tourists enjoy open-air concerts, and sunning themselves on beaches during the peak season of July and August.
Beginning on the first Saturday in September, the nine-day Århus Festival brings revelry, music and drama to the city, drawing thousands of Danish and International visitors, and one of northern Europe's most popular rock festivals the Roskilde Festival is held in June.