Walking Holidays in Denmark

Denmark tends to catch people off guard. There's a quiet confidence to this country, in its towns, its landscapes, its history, that reveals itself gradually as you move through it. Moving through it by boat is the ideal way to let that happen. One morning you might be walking the woodland paths around Aabenraa, a quaint 13th-century market town framed by lakes and meadows. The next, you're standing before Kronborg Castle, the brooding clifftop fortress that inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet, looking out across the Øresund to Sweden.

The Viking burial sites, the colourful harbour towns, the long stretches of Baltic coastline where the light seems to come from every direction at once: Denmark keeps offering up new things to look at, and our small groups give you the time and company to properly take them in. We'll take you to Copenhagen too, where royal palaces, world-class galleries and the animated streets of the old city make for a very different kind of walking day. On the island of Bornholm, the pace slows again. The colourful houses of Rønne, the quiet harbour, the sense of being somewhere that most visitors simply don't reach.

There's something about arriving somewhere by water that puts you in exactly the right frame of mind for walking. No airports, no transfers, no rush. Just the gradual approach to a new place and the anticipation of what's ahead on foot.