Best Travel Destinations - Sweden
On the shores of the Torne River, in the old village of Jukkasjärvi in Swedish Lapland lies the Ice Hotel, a place that is like a surreal waking dream. Each November the creation of the Ice Hotel begins by taking massive clear cubes of ice from the Torne river. This water is incredibly clean and provides some of the best ice in the world for carving and creating such structures. The glass like structure uses over 30 cubic meters of snow and 5 thousand tonnes of ice. A true frozen wonderland, the Ice Hotel is created each year by a team of international designers, no two rooms the same, changing appearance, structures and layout from year to year. The intricate sculptures and wall carvings that ...
Forget the usual sunny and snowy sights of Stockholm. If you're in the Swedish capital, the smartest thing to check out is the home of the Nobel prizes: the Nobel Museum. Short films, original artifacts and interactive exhibits at the Nobel Museum all offer insight into the greatest minds of the last century. The Nobel Museum also offers a frequent rotation of mini-exhibitions on a particular winner or subject. At the Nobel Museum you can discover the story of Alfred Nobel, a native of Stockholm and the son of a wealthy industrialist, Nobel put his privileged education to good use by inventing dynamite! It was not an easy road to this discovery. Indeed, his brother died in one of their early experiments. A man of ...
There are very few things that still have the power to amaze after being exposed to the media of the world, seeing images of everything and forming expectations about it all. However, the impossible quaintness and peacefulness of the far northern climates somehow puts the freeze on any bias. I’m not talking about just anything. I’m talking about the Kiruna Snow Festival. The festival is a welcome celebration of the winter season. The annual festival gives us 5/6 days of events during the last week of January. Held in Sweden’s most northerly city, Kiruna, the festival has attracted tourists domestic and foreign alike since 1985. It was in that year that the festival was created to coincide with the firing off of the rocket satellite ...
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