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Gorgeous and dirt free, the peaceful Sweden is a ground of cultural diversity with a merge of Danish and Wild Arctic North influences. You can get the sense of urban livelihood in its gorgeous and charming cities and at the same time the calm of the countryside. Sweden has plenty of charm with fascinating medicinal villages, lakes islands, and forests.
Most of Sweden’s part is covered by forests and thousands of lakes. One of the beauties of this country is its islands impossible to skip. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden: it has 14 islands with thousand of great places to eat, nightlife, bars… Most of the people speak English. The west coast is specialist in serving seafood. Don’t forget to pass by the Ice Hotel, in Lapland, which is made of ice each winter. Sweden is an exciting country with great road and rail network.

Population & Languages

Sweden has 9 million inhabitants and its official idiom is Swedish. In Lapland, in the north, Sami people speak Lap. Most people can speak English fluently and a lot can speak German and French.

Customs

Like any other country, Sweden has its own traditions. It is usual not to drink until the host makes a toast. Smoking is banned in most public places. It is also traditional to say Tack f๖r maten to the host after having a meal which means thanks for the food. Casual clothe is suitable for everyday and formal dress for social gatherings. Also tipping up to ten percent is normal in restaurants and taxis.

Sightseeing

Stockholm, the capital, is the biggest city of Sweden; it is also one of the most gorgeous cities of our globe. The old town is a pleasure for your eyes and a walk around city’s waterway and parks is a real treasure. Most Tourists like to walk around and to see the medieval part of Gamla Stan. The city is made of archipelagos which are terrifically picturesque and can be discover by cruise.

By Stortorget

Gothenburg – it is the second biggest city of Sweden. Liseberg cannot be missed as it has a world class amusement park. It is a meeting of popular museums like Ostindiska huset, Konstmuseet and Sj๖fartshistoriska museet.

Vadstena – The Renaissance castle Vadstena slot & klosterkyrkan.

Visby – Port of Visby, ruins of Drotten, St Nicolai, St Lars and St Carin, cathedral of St Maria and Gotlands Fornsal historic musem.

Oland – Fort of Graborg, Eketorp museum and ruins of Borgholm Castle.

To get there

By Air – It is well connected to the rest of the world by air. Many international airlines serve Sweden. The other airlines are Air Canada, Air France, Aeroflot, British Airways, Finn air, Lufthansa, Ryan air etc.

By Sea – The ferries connect Sweden with other destinations such as New Castle, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg etc.

By Rail – Trains connect Ostend (Sweden) to London. It is also connected to Denmark by Eurostar train.

By Road – You can drive to Sweden through Demark or Germany

Prohibited Items

Narcotics, firearms, ammunition, arms, most meat and dairy products, eggs, plants, rare species, fireworks and alcoholic beverages that contain more than sixty per cent alcohol.

@ nickherber

You will lucky to spend your holiday in this curious hotel in the south of Chile. It is located in the Huilo-Huilo reserve, a reserve of 60000 hectares. This reserve holds the snow-covered volcano Mocho-Choshuenco, fabulous fall waters, and mountains torrents. The Magic Mountains hotel looks like it has been taken from a Disney movie.
There are 13 rooms with unobstructed view as they are all around the core. All, made of wood, are furnished and have a large bathroom. They are reachable via a spiral staircase made of wood and stones.
From your room, you will be able to look up to eagles and condors flying.
A spring gushes out from the top of the hotel as a volcano and streams in the form of waterfall along walls which makes this hotel particular.
Moreover, this hotel offers one of the best restaurants in Chili, ‘The Forest Table’, Warless connection for all laptops, mini golf, sauna, trips to discover the wildlife.. they also have strange Jacuzzi, made in trunks located up on a terrace from where you can see all the forest… A dream…
Here is the dream …

Nearby, there are two villages where can ride bicycles, go kayaking on Pirhueinco lack. Summer is also the best period for fishing and hunting, where as winter provides boardsports

This a soothing and magic place that you can’t forget.

This video can give you a glimpse at this peaceful place.

The New York Times has published a list of 44 places to go in 2009. The selection is already given, but the list is interactive and you can vote for your favorite one, in order to advise other travelers.

From this selection, made by the North American newspaper, classical places are, obviously highlighted, such as Las Vegas, Berlin, Rome, but also others interesting destinations to discover such as Kazakhstan, Beirut,The Philippines or Bhutan.
Oddly, Cuba is in this list where as Americans are not allowed to go to this island: none planes take off from the US to Cuba. Actually, if they wish to see Havana and Cuban beaches, they must catch a plane from another country (Canada, Mexico…) and ask to not get a stamp on their passport.
Destinations are also classified by categories: luxury, family, ecology, culture, etc.

And you, where would you go this year?

@ f.larre

In the Pyrenees, at an altitude of 9438.86 ft, in the Pic du Midi, the best panorama of the region takes place. At the top, you will go into ecstasies looking at this amazing view; you will also find a museum about astronomy, a traditional mountains restaurant, an observatory-hotel with bedrooms identical as while researchers were living there. Each room provides a bed and a washbasin; WC and showers are at the same floor. Hosts of this shelter have voluntarily left everything identical. Moreover, sheets, blankets and towels are provided.
There is not a single night alike. You will get to the pick via a cable car, from the Mongie, at the bottom of Tourmallet saddle point.
You will have the head in stars for a night

@ Andy Howell

@visit Finlan.com

In Yllas station, in Finland (Lapland), the first cable-car sauna has been inaugurated. We, all, already know traditional cable cars which bring us to the top of ski runs. From now on, in Finland, no need to wear a down jacket or a hat anymore to get the top.
Yllas station offers the most unusual cable car ever. Cabins are entirely made of pine, they can accommodate 4 people. These cabins will take you to the top of the mount Yllas, the highest of the region. Once at the top you will jump into the snow before getting into the main sauna, then going back down with the cable car as many times as you want.
As this 2km trip brings a huge success, it would be better to book in advance (2h minimum).
This 15 minutes of warm bliss will able you to see an amazing white landscape, while wearing only a towel.
This ski station is open from November to May; it has 61 ski runs and 28 ski-tows: a super G run, some runs for snowboarders and some others for skiers: It is a paradise for all skiers, experienced and novices.
The pass includes access to cable car-sauna and to the main one located at the top.
A concept which could be only thought  by finish.

@La Ferme Aventure

Haven’t you already thought, during long flights, being on your own in a plane?
La Ferme Aventure, located in les Vosges, France offers the opportunity of sleeping in a caravel, a fabled plane from the fifties, in a huge leisure park.
This plane, made in 282 copies, was baptized Ohrid; it was sold in 1967 to JAT a Yugoslavian company. This plane flied for the last time in 1985. After 20000 hours of flying, it has been dismantled and moved toward les Voges in France.
Inside, you will enjoy an amazing white and blue décor, a bedroom with a shower unit, a living room, a bar near the cockpit.
An unusual night is waiting for you!!!

@La Ferme Aventure

Can you imagine giving some coins for going to the bathroom in a plane? This is the latest Ryanair’s measure. They are considering the fact of charging passengers 1 pound to have a wee.

@ Drewski2112

According to Michael O’leary, CEO of the Irish company, everyone will be able to go the bathroom since no one travels without any coins in their wallet. Did it happen to you already to have only your credit card with you and no coins in the wallet? Did they think about people having some problem?

All of that is supposed to be for the reason of the crisis. Ryanair, like all other airlines, has suffered of the increase of fuel where as they had planned to bring more clients with prices even more attractive.

What will be the next measure they will find in order to save some pounds and to make us thinking their flights tickets are cheap. The only possibility would be charging us according the amount of air breathed in their planes!

@ Ti.mo

We could say that safety in airports is more and more demanding. We are all aware technology moves forward quickly and safety cannot stay in the background. All of that brings us to a drawback situation caused by people or organizations looking for harm.
But city dwellers end to pay for this safety and the process of boarding became a difficult and humiliating experience.

The 11th of September 2001 dredged up a psychotic truth about airports. This highlighted safety weaknesses of a country that runs the biggest amount of movements in its airports.

The scanner that strips

Within other extends, such as forbidding liquids and aerosols, intensification demands to enter in the country, the body scanner enables to see directly under clothes, exposing people to X-rays.
While we travel a lot, it is restrictive and worrying. There is not only privacy violation, as they need to see people stripped, but it can be noxious for our health as well.
Moreover, waiting lines will be even longer as one person at a time can be seen, and as the entire process lasts some minutes.

Even if some other countries, such as Germany, refused it radically, Schiphol’s airport (Holland), and some airports in U.S, have already adopted this new system.

By publik16

Other law projects in airports

On the other side, G8’s countries and E.U, could establish a new aerial anti-piracy law that would permit to seize electronic equipments (laptops, MP3…) for copyright reasons.
In summary, they undermine travelers instead of searching solutions more efficient, but at a higher cost.
Is it possible to reach a point where they will have the right to confiscate our MP3 if they find a downloaded song while we are passing the control? Another privacy violation!

What is the safety limit?

It is quite difficult for a mother, traveling with a baby, taking only 100ml of liquid, or that someone using a spray gives it to the security guard. Nowadays, chemical explosives with less than 100ml of liquid can cause huge damages, but our technology doesn’t able us to analyze instantaneously what passengers are caring; the only solution is, then, to seize.
Even if most travelers would pay a certain price for this safety, preventive laws could stop abuses. If airports don’t have enough frameworks or enough technologies to offer an efficient safety without affecting passengers rights, the solution would be investment.

Which drives us to the point: Are we facing normal safety or abuse of power? Going on board is a pleasure, or it became something stressful?

@ fouilbreizh

More and more ski stations offer this kind of hobbies. You thought that diving was only possible in winter, God no!!!

In Tigne, France, they offer you to dive with a seasoned professional under ice diving; this is another way to have fun in a snowed area.
Under ice diving could seem extreme, actually, it is open to everyone: from amateurs to harden divers.
Fit up with a water proof wet suit, you will be able to take a look at the aquatic wild life: A unique experience under ice. Night dives are also possible.

About price, one dive is about 50 Pounds per person, and if you come by group, it will be 40 Pounds each.

By youngrobv

This hotel offers the possibility to live like an Eskimo for a while. You will sleep in an igloo made of ice (in winter) or made of glass (summer). There are also, 32 chalets made of dried pin logs and a traditional nuptial haven.

You will be able to gaze a star-studded sky and aurora borealis (between August and April) from your igloo, in a warm place, even if outside there is a temperature of about -22°F. You should, still, plan to grab something warm to cover yourself.

By youngrobv

The Kakslauttanen hotel is located on Arctic Ocean’s edge, nearby Urho Kekkonen Park. There are various activities available; some are feasible in summer and others in winter such as the biggest smoke-filled sauna, gold washing introduction, fishing, visit of a reindeer breeding stock, ice sculpture…

If you are looking for unusual holiday, you won’t be disappointed!!!