Guide Service in Vejle & Nearby

Get a great experience with a canoe tour in the beautiful valley of the Vejle stream.

Enjoying the quiet beauty of nature is best experienced in the middle of it, and with the stream being the epicenter of nature in Vejle, there is no better way to get into in than getting in a canoe and experience it all from the Water side.

You can take a canoe tour from 2 to 7 hours. Plan an active day in the canoe with lunch and coffee. The perfect time for the entire family.

All necessary equipment is included.

The price is DKK 300 per person (min. 4 people).

For reasons of nature protection, it is only allowed to 15  sail on the river from 16 June to 15 October.

Munkebjergskoven is a forest famous for its wild nature and magnificent views. The forest is moreover famous for its beech trees, which are said to be the first ones to blossom when spring arrives in Denmark. 

Starting at Munkebjerg Hotel, we hike on a round trip in the very hilly terrain. We hike on the edge of a a huge glacier with many deep and narrow meltwater gorges created shortly after the last ice age 14,000 years ago. 

The hike will pass an old yew trees, which today is protected, likewise there are several orchid species, that grows wildly in the forest. 

Also the wildlife in Munkebjerg Forest is something very special. The rare and endangered hazel dormouse builds its nest in the forest. You can also meet the stock dove and the black woodpecker at Munkebjerg. 

We will also see the Troll Stone with a big hand print. The tour ends by a walk up the steep Munkebjerg stairs and its 218 steps back to the hotel. And of course, you will get stories about the hotel with the piccolo and the donkey Moses, which used to bring the guests' luggage to the hotel, as well as the artists who were called the Munkebjerg painters.

Vejle in the south eastern Danish peninsula Jutland was founded in the Middle Ages as a port.

For many years Vejle was a very small place with only a few hundred inhabitants. Slowly Vejle developed into a town of trade being strategically well positioned by the sea and surrounded by streams on which boats could take cargo from the inner parts of Southern Jutland to the port of Vejle and from Vejle's port it could be shipped out to the rest of the world.

Vejle was occupied by Austrian and Prussian forces during both of the wars of Sleswig 1848-50 and 1864. Wars with a significance for the Danish perception of being a Dane and the shaping of Denmark in those years but most likely these two wars mean nothing to you or your country. In the later part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, Vejle became a well known industrial town especially known for its iron foundry and its woollen mill, at both of which a large part of Vejle's work force was employed.

Today Vejle is famous for its modern architecture at the old port area and for being a town always at the forefront of development in any field.

Let me guide you through Vejle's history and the vibrant town Vejle is today – I love my town.

An eye-opening and thought-provoking visit to Jelling, the greatest Viking Age royal monument in the North and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Poised between two kings, two world views, the old faith and the new, between prehistory and history… The royal burial place and grand memorial at Jelling, with its manifold symbolism and iconic significance, is a spectacular monument of Viking Age Denmark. In our visit you will hear about the legends and troubled history of the beginnings of the Danish kingdom and its conversion to Christianity, wonder at some of the most fantastic examples of Viking runestone art, and experience this monument as a huge landmark in both history and landscape.

Two huge mounds dominate the royal complex. In between stands a medieval stone church, next to which two great stones stand precisely in the centre between the mounds: one raised by Gorm for his queen Thyra, the other by Harald in memory of his parents. The latter is an enormous runestone which boasts two of the most renowned and amazing carvings of the Viking Age: a beast fighting a coiling snake, and Christ in the shape of a cross bound by coiling ribbons. But it is also famous for the king's historically all-important claim, engraved in runes, of having "won" Denmark – and Norway – for himself and having made the Danes Christian.

The site is further complicated by traces of a gigantic ship setting marked in stones, and a huge palisade around the grounds.

As we explore the site and discover its tantalising symmetries and symbolism, I explain the complex and fascinating transition from Nordic heathendom to Christianity, of which the Jelling monuments give the most impressive illustration.

I also tell you about the most recent archaeological discoveries here: our understanding of Jelling constantly changes and improves, though it is a place that still holds many secrets from us.

Our visit ends with a tour of the Royal Jelling Exhibition Centre, a clever, informative and spectacular little museum offering a rich experience for the mind and the senses.

Optionally we can also visit the Viking-themed café Sejd in the village (3 min. walk), which tempts with great coffee, tasty Viking-inspired food and bits of Viking myths.

If your are visiting as part of a bus trip, the tour could also be combined with a visit to the Viking Age bridge at Ravninge Enge, another of Harald’s impressive construction works.

The guide is a historian and has worked in communications since 2008.

Syvårssøerne, the Seven Year Lakes, at Frederikshåb Plantation is at moment one of Denmark's biggest natural attractions, as the water level in the mystical "Syvårssøerne" is very high, and numerous paths in the area are flooded. A hike here is an exciting experience.

I myself is very enthusiastic about this hike, where we walk around the big sand dunes in Randbøl moor. Here we will pass over the 17m high Stoltenberg. A sand dune shaped by the wind collecting sand on the otherwise flat and heather clad moorland. It is difficult here to believe that you are not in the big seaside dunes at the west coast by the North Sea.

The tour continues in Frederikshåb Plantation where we hike along the lakes Syvårssøerne. The "Seven Year Lakes" are not always here which is the mystical part as the lakes emerges and disappears in fluctuation with the groundwater level. For centuries it was noticed that they appeared around every seven years. The hike at Syvårssøerne is a hike you can do again and again every season of the year. No matter when you pass by, the nature is always beautiful – even in rain and clouded weather. If you bring kids along, the tour offers possibility for play time in the great sand dunes.

Besides the mystical and very beautiful nature, we will also encounter multiple historical sites from WW2 when Denmark was occupied by German forces and the German occupational forces used the area as a secret airfield. In the area there are among other things an airplane hiding spot, field kitchen, personal bunker fuel lines and a bunker for fuel.

A guided hike which is very exciting for kids as well as adults.