Destination Profile
Slipping across the Atlantic Ocean to the backbone of Scandinavia is made easy by the abundance of cheap flights to Sweden from USA. There are indirect and direct options alike, with the best bargains of all usually coming in seasons like spring and autumn, on airlines that include a layover along the way. It's likely you'll touch tarmac in the immersive capital of Stockholm – a place to glug coffee in cozy taverns and gawp at the grand Royal Palace. From there, venture out to the archipelagos of the Baltic for hidden bays, hit Gothenburg for upcoming art galleries, or go north to Lapland for real Arctic wastes.
Go to the Gamla Stan for crooked buildings that have stood for centuries. Go to see the Swedish royal family. Go for meatballs and coffees in quaint cafés.
Visby is hailed as perhaps the best-preserved medieval town in the whole region. Come to walk its half-crumbled fortifications and delve into the Gotland Museum.
270 miles long and crossing everything from long-lost fells to glacial valleys, the Kungsleden hiking track is an adventure from beginning to end!
No airlines fly direct between the United States of America and Sweden.