Escorted Tours to Sweden and Swedish Lapland
Sweden offers a fascinating mix of vibrant cities, rich history and vast natural landscapes. Discover Stockholm, spread across a series of islands, with its charming old town of Gamla Stan and the remarkable Vasa Museum. Just north of the capital, Uppsala is home to an impressive cathedral and the historic gardens of Carl Linnaeus.
Beyond the cities, Sweden’s landscapes open out into peaceful forests, sparkling lakes and the remote wilderness of Lapland, where summer brings wonderfully long daylight hours. Our Swedish holidays combine air travel with scenic rail journeys, offering a memorable way to experience the country’s contrasting landscapes and culture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Sweden Tours
North of the Arctic Circle, around Gällivare, the sun does not set at all for roughly six weeks from early June, so on a clear night you will see it. Luleå sits just south of the line, so there the sun dips briefly but never gets properly dark. Cloud can spoil the view on any given night, nobody can guarantee weather.
Our tour prices are based on the travel arrangements, accommodation and experiences included in each itinerary. Depending on your chosen holiday, this may include return flights, internal travel, transfers, hotel accommodation with breakfast, selected meals and scenic rail journeys. The tour page provides a full breakdown of what is included, along with details of meals, excursions and any additional costs, so you know exactly what to expect when booking.
Stockholm, Uppsala and the far north
Our Sweden tour spends three nights in Stockholm, which is about right. The Vasa Museum alone takes a morning: the ship sank in the harbour on her maiden voyage in 1628, sat in the mud for 333 years and came up largely intact. Gamla Stan is walkable, cobbled and hilly in places, with the Royal Palace and the Nobel Prize Museum a few minutes apart.
Uppsala, where we stay a night, is a university city with a Gothic brick cathedral, the Gustavianum anatomical theatre and the Linnaean Garden laid out to his own plan. From there the tour flies north to Luleå, near the Gulf of Bothnia, where Gammelstad church town — more than four hundred red cottages once used by parishioners who lived too far away to travel home after Sunday service — is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Inlandsbanan scenic railway
The Inland Line was built to open up the interior of Sweden and finished in 1937. It runs for well over a thousand kilometres through country the main coastal railway ignores: pine and birch forest, peat bog, reindeer grazing, small timber halts with a station house and not much else.
The tour includes the section from Gällivare, above the Arctic Circle, down to Östersund on Lake Storsjön. This is not a fast train and is not trying to be. Services stop where there is something worth stopping for — the Arctic Circle marker, a coffee break, sometimes a pause when an elk is spotted on the line. Seats are comfortable, the windows are large, and the day passes in conversation and looking out.
