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| Denmark Travel Guide for backpackers |
| 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. |
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Copenhagen - Hans Christian Anderson wasn't kidding when he sang about 'wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen', it was wonderful back then and is wonderful today, with blocks of period buildings and a skyline that is punctuated with church spires, and the marvelous Strøget pedestrian mall with great shopping and entertainment.
Egeskov Castle - Built in 1554, this jewel of the Renaissance period is set in the middle of a small lake, with antique furnishings and paintings.
Legoland - Built by the inventors of Lego, this 10 hectare theme park is made entirely out of plastic Lego blocks.
Mons Klint - White chalk cliffs created 5000 years ago and rising a spectacular 128m above sea level, provide one of the most incredible sights of Denmark.
Ribe - A number of silver coins recently found in excavations around Ribe, the oldest town in Scandinavia, indicate that its origins go way back beyond AD 70, and a visit to its winding, cobbled streets and half-timbered 16th-century houses carries you back to a time when credit cards and cell phones could not even have been imagined. |
 DAILY BUDGET in DENMARK - 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. |
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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. |
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