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| Sweden Travel Guide for backpackers |
| The huge magnificent lakes and forests of Sweden provide breathtaking landscapes and fresh, clean air make rambles and hiking a pleasure.
With so much culture and history in Sweden and the fact that the country is now more economical to tour, backpackers should save their pennies and make an effort to explore this old land. |
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Stockholm - For sheer beauty, few cities in the world can compete with Stockholm, especially the Old Town with its 16th century splendour.
Gothenburg - Home to one of the world's coolest amusement parks, Liseberg, Gothenburg also offers great museums and galleries.
Vadstena - The Renaissance castle Vadstena slott overlooks the harbour of this attractive town on the shores of Lake Vattern, and houses period furniture and paintings. Other attractions in the town include the 15th-century klosterkyrkan or abbey with its impressive gothic style, and collection of late medieval sculpture and relics of St Birgitta.
Visby - Great churches have stood in the walled medieval port of Visby and their ruins remind the modern day of the glorious hanseatic days in the town's past lives.
Oland - 400 windmills stand on this small island as well as Graborg, an Iron Age ring fortification, and the ruins of Borgholm Castle, burned down and abandoned in the 18th century. |
 DAILY BUDGET in SWEDEN - Camp for free in the woods and picnic under the trees with grub from the local deli and life is good for the backpacker in Sweden. All for only US$10 per day, magic. To stay in an organised campsite and use their amenities, but still self cater, then you are looking at about US$25 a day. In off peak seasons, mid-range hotels and restaurants your costs will escalate to US$50 upwards per day. |
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| Summer in Sweden when the sun shines, and youth hostels and camping grounds are open for business, is a great time to visit this beautiful country. Just remember that August brings heavy rains. The Pagan festival, Midsummer, is held over the summer solstice with great enthusiasm, as is the close of Winter on April 30 with Walpurgis Night another pagan festival celebrated with bonfires and fireworks and a great deal of Schnapps. Christmas and New Year are great family events and Santa is eagerly awaited and welcomed with Christmas trees decorated with straw animals and stars, and grown-ups glug down plenty of glogg, a national favourite of hot alcoholic fruit punch. |
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