Thursday, 10 March 2011

Scandinavia 2010 - Part 2

Sightseeing And Tivoli Gardens

Monday - August 30th 2010

Our first full day in Copenhagen. We got up early and since our hotel didn't offer breakfast, we went to a local bakery for a cup of coffee and a choco croissant.

Copenhagen

Copenhagen

A Choco Croissant for Breakfast

Afterwards we walked to Nyhavn, because we wanted to do a boat tour through the canals of Copenhagen. On the way we passed some beautyful buildings and stopped at Castle Rosenborg to watch the guards. and to spend some time in the beautiful park of the castle

Castle Rosenborg

Castle Rosenborg

Castle Rosenborg Garden

Europe made of Flowers

Nyhavn is a wonderful place with old buildings, ships, bars and restaurants. We purchased our tickets and soon the canal boat tour started. The route covered the entire harbour from Fisketorvet in the south to the Fortress Trekroner in the north. The roundtrip took approximately 150 minutes. Since the weather was really nice, the sun was shining and it was quite warm, we got to see a lot. The boat tour was great, totally worth the money and shouldn't be missed during a visit to Copenhagen.

Nyhavn

Copenhagen - Boat Tour

Christianshavn - Boat Tour

Copenhagen - Boat Tour

Copenhagen - Boat Tour

Copenhagen - Boat Tour

Trekroner - Boat Tour

Copenhagen - Boat Tour

Copenhagen - Boat Tour

Copenhagen Opera - Boat Tour

Copenhagen - Boat Tour

Nyhavn - Boat Tour

In the afternoon after the tour we visited Christiania. Christiania was a strange, but special place. Unfortunately it wasn’t allowed to take any pictures. I think that was due to the fact, that people were selling drugs there. Coming from a country where even "light" drugs like cannabis are forbidden, we were a little bit shocked to see that in the public. We just walked around that interesting place and had a coffee. Afterwards we went to a small pizza restaurant and then we returned to the hotel, because it started to rain.

Christiania

Christiania

Pizza

In the evening the weather was getting better again and so it was time for Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli is a beautiful amusement park and we enjoyed every minute there, although we only rode one attraction, a very high carrousel. The park looked really great after sunset when everything was illuminated. The park offered some nice restaurants and live entertainment, which we really liked. Two bands were playing that evening and the guests enjoyed them and were dancing and clapping to their music. We spent a few hours there, before we visited the Hard Rock Cafe just outside the park again. 

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens

Hard Rock Cafe Copenhagen

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