With Car or Coach

Visit beautiful Hindsholm and the impressive and wild Fyns Hoved.

The nature here is unique, you will not find like it anywhere in Denmark.

Visit the small and picturesque villages, and learn about the people, who lived there, how they built their communities and hear the rather scary legends about pirates, ghosts and evil noblemen. See the impressive Scheelenborg Castle and hear about Marsk Stig who assasinated a danish king. See one of the few road crucifixes in lutheran Denmark and hear about the lady who put it there. Drive on to Korshavn, where we have time for a walk on the narrow path to Fyns Hoved where we can enjoy a spectacular view.

On the way back you will hear about the scary funeral of Marsk Stig, you will drive along the coast past Hverringe and finish back in Kerteminde.

A very beautiful – and also exciting – tour.

This tour follows the footsteps of Harald Bluetooth and Gorm the Old; the first Danish kings.

The runic stones in Jelling, a UNESCO Heritage Site, is the natural starting point for this tour. From there we drive to the river valley of Vejle River. Here we see the remains of the Ravning bridge; for centuries a mystery for many historians. For what purpose was this unique wooden bridge built?  

After visiting the remarkable Viking historical site we visit another runic stone telling about Queen Thyra, the wife of Gorm the Old and we end our tour at the Klebæk Mounds, where a 45 meter long shipsetting from the Viking period surrounds 2 bronze mounds.

The tour requires that the group has a car or bus available. This is for the group to arrange or can be booked by Guide Service Denmark.

The tour focusing on food and the good stories is a guided bus tour starting in Vejle, from where we drive towards Jelling. We can of course start somewhere else according to your choice.

We visit a traditional old grocery store which is now also a museum. If you are into nostalgia, be sure to make a few purchases at the counter. It's hard not to.

We carry on to the beautiful Nørup Church, an old medieval church restored to its present day's unique look with a Russian style onion dome, which is very unusual for a Danish church.

From Nørup church we go to the UNESCO World Heritage site at Jelling. See the large runic stone where king Harald Bluetooth in the year 965 claimed that he made the Danes Christian. The runic stone is said to hold the birth certificate of Denmark as a nation.

We end our morning with a delicious Viking lunch in one of Jelling's nice cafes, known for its locally produced, high quality food and drink. We might be able to listen a story by the proprietor while having lunch. 

After lunch you will have time to enjoy the historic experience centre Kongernes Jelling, Royal Jelling, before we head back to Vejle.

For you who are particularly interested in the history of Denmark and the Vikings tihs is the perfect tour.

We can meet in Roskilde or we can go from Copenhagen. We will go west to Roskilde and drive along the fiord, where affluent foragers lived 7000 years ago. From here we shall continue on a detour south of Roskilde to the area of Lejre and make stops at burial mounds from the Danish prehistory covering the Neolithic Period, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, all in all from 6000 to 1200 years ago. I tell you about the things we see, as we drive through the picturesque landscape of the region.

We shall focus on the Vikings and will make stops at the Halls of Lejre and the "skibssætninger", which are stone rows in the shape of ships. Put together, these features make up substantial evidence that important men and women lived and died here.

Coming back to Roskilde, the city that was made the country's first capital by the Vikings, we shall visit the Viking Ship Museum. The museum houses the wrecks of the five ships discovered at the bottom of the fiord in 1957. The ships were deliberately sunk in the late 11th century in order to stop the advance of a hostile Norwegian fleet, and they have now given us some of our most precise knowledge of ship-building and sailing a thousand years ago. Apart from the various Viking craft workshops that are run at the museum grounds there is a shipyard staffed by boat builders who construct new ships using the ancient techniques.

It was in Roskilde that King Harold Bluetooth had the first Christian church of Zealand built in 980 and subsequently claimed to have christened the Danes. That was probably not quite true, as it was customary in the Viking Age to carry the hammer-pendant of the old Norse god Thor. I will tell you about the Viking mythology as well as the use of runes.

Our final destination of the tour will be Roskilde Cathedral, the latest descendant of King Harold's wooden church. The first bricks of the present building were laid in 1170 during the era of Bishop Absalon, but in the course of time it has been gradually extended by still more chapels in order to make space for the marble sarcophagies of the Danish kings and queens. The earliest is that of Queen Margrethe I, who died in 1412, fifteen years after she had united the giant Nordic realm. 

The sequence may be altered because of service hours in the cathedral.

Guided bus tour, where we drive from Copenhagen on a lovely trip in North Zealand and visit three gems: Kronborg Castle (1574) by Frederik II, Fredensborg Castle (1720) and Frederiksborg Castle (1606) by Christian IV.Kronborg and Frederiksborg castles and palaces are listed in the Dutch Renaissance style and both appear as King Christian the 4 left them, but the story goes further back. We will take a tour of Hamlets Kronborg and see the newly renovated fortress site and at Frederiksborg Castle, the National History Museum, which has also undergone an extensive restoration.

At Fredensborg Castle we take a short hike to the beautiful park which has not only been brought back to its original appearance but the landscape has also been worked on so that the park has become even more spectacular.

On the tour I will tell you about the Øresund Customs, which was introduced by Erik of Pomerania and which became such a success that over the next 400 years it was able to finance all the great splendor of Danish kings in North Zealand and Copenhagen.

A Guided Tour: Hammershus, the Round Churches of Bornholm and the Baltic Crusades

Your journey begins at the north tip of Bornholm, where the dramatic granite cliffs of Hammerknuden plunge into the Baltic. Rising from this headland are the ruins of Hammershus, the largest castle ruin in northern Europe and one of Scandinavia's most commanding medieval fortifications.

Construction began around 1160, initiated by Denmark’s king Valdemar I, who needed a stronghold for his crusades in order to muster troops and gather supplies. From the castle ruins, you can look out over the Baltic: on a clear day you can see the Swedish coast. Hammershus was built to see and be seen – a statement of power in a sea contested by the Hanseatic League, Wendish tribes to the south and the crusading orders further east.

As you explore the castle ruins – from the 14th century bridge to the inner tower keep, foundations of great hall and church and cannon emplacements overlooking the Baltic Sea, your guide explains the 800-year-old history of Hammershus – from impregnable medieval fortress to national historic monument. In 1658, when Bornholm was occupied by Swedish troops during the Dano-Swedish War, the people of Bornholm rose in revolt and killed the Swedish commandant, handing the island back to the Danish king. The island has remained part of Denmark ever since. It was decommissioned as a fortress in 1743 and systematically quarried for building stone. It became Denmark’s first national historic monument in 1822.

Round Churches: Fortresses of the Faith

From Hammershus, you travel southeast across Bornholm’s granite countryside to encounter something unique in all of Scandinavia: four medieval round churches, built in the 12th and 13th century and unlike anything else in Denmark.

Round Church of Østerlars

The largest and most dramatic of the four round churches, Østerlars dates to around 1200. Its massive whitewashed cylindrical tower – three storeys high – was built simultaneously as a place of worship, a mustering point and storage facility. Inside, your guide draws your attention to the frescoes that still glow faintly on the plaster – depicting the Last Judgment and scenes from the Bible for an illiterate medieval congregation.

Round churches of Nylars, Olsker & Nyker

The other three round churches each have their own character. Nylars retains some of the finest Romanesque frescoes on the island, depicting the Creation. Olsker is the tallest and most slender – almost tower-like. Nyker is the smallest and most intimate.

Why round?

Here your guide pauses for the central historical question. Why did Bornholm's medieval builders choose this unusual form? Several theories converge:

Crusading inspiration: the round form echoes the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – a shape adopted across Europe for exactly this symbolic reason.

Practical strength: the circular design is structurally superior for withstanding attack.

The Baltic Crusades: The Wider World These Stones Remember

This brings your guide to the broader historical canvas. The round churches and Hammershus were not built in isolation – they were products of a violent, expansionary age known as the Northern Crusades (roughly 1147-1410).

While crusaders marched to Jerusalem, a parallel holy war was being waged on the Baltic's eastern and southern shores. Danish kings, Swedish lords, German bishops, and crusading military orders – above all the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Brothers of the Sword – pushed into pagan Prussia, Livonia (modern Latvia and Estonia), Lithuania, and Finland, converting or conquering as they went.

Bornholm’s role was both strategic and symbolic. As a mid-Baltic island, it sat on the trade and military routes connecting Novgorod, the Hanseatic League states and the crusading heartlands of modern-day northern Germany and Poland with the conquest frontiers in Livonia and Estonia. Danish kings used the island as a staging point and supply base.

Bringing It Together: A Medieval Island at the Centre of a Crusading World

As your tour ends, perhaps watching the sunset over the Baltic from Hammershus, your guide offers a final reflection. Bornholm is often seen today as a peaceful summer idyll – herrings and smokeries and bicycle paths. But its stones tell a different story. The round church builders, Hammershus, the trade routes threading past this granite rock – all connect this small island to one of the most dramatic episodes of medieval European history: the Christianisation of the Baltic world by sword, cross, and castle.

Practical notes for visitors: Hammershus is freely accessible year-round, but requires good physical motility and suitable walking shoes. Østerlars and the other round churches are open to visitors from spring through autumn, with small admission fees.

The coach tour starts from Aarhus to Billund, the home town of the Lego company, Legoland and Lego House. Learn the faschinating history of the Lego company's humble beginnings in a carpenters shop in Billund to the world covering company we now know.

Legoland offers lots of entertainment for kids of all ages with the Legoland Museum, the park and when food is a request. If you prefer a visit in the Lego House to Legoland that is no problem.

On the way to Legoland I will tell you the fascinating history of LEGO which is at play with the Danish words "leg godt" meaning have fun playing.

Lego is the fascinating story of producing wooden toys in humble beginnings in a carpenters shop in the 1930's Billund to the worldwide multinational Lego company of today with its Star Wars toys.

On our way we will pass some of Lego's factories in Billund, which has become the Lego-town of Denmark with almost everybody working at the Lego factories.

It is no problem to start this tour from other cities than Aarhus just let us know in advance.