Day Trip - Birka (Viking Town)
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t my weekend every bit tour guide for my friend visiting from Wales... nosotros took a trip to Birka for the day. Birka is considered to endure Sweden's showtime town together with was active (750-960 A.D.) inward the Viking Age amongst a population of most 700 people at its elevation (around 3,000 graves cause got been found). Birka was an of import trading midpoint every bit seen past times grave items constitute originating inward the Middle-East together with mainland Europe. Archaeologists don't know precisely why the town was abandoned, but, at most the same time, nearby Sigtuna rose inward importance. Birka is located on the isle of Björkö inward lake Mälaren, most an lx minutes together with 45 infinitesimal boat ride inland fro
m Stockholm. During the Viking Age the H2O grade was much higher together with Birka was straight connected to the Baltic Sea.
Today the isle together with archaeological site are on UNESCO's World Heritage list. If you lot teach to Birka expecting to meet the fabulous ruins of an ancient metropolis similar Machu Pichu, you lot volition endure disappointed. Birka was built mainly of woods together with all that is left are the grave mounds together with dark world together with it takes a picayune imagination to envision what the town 1 time loo
ked like. Fortunately visitors are helped showtime past times visiting the on-site museum where they cause got miniature replicas of what the town may cause got looked similar every bit good every bit eager together with knowledgable tour guides who cause got you lot through the grave fields together with the site of where the town 1 time stood. H5N1 recent add-on to the site is a life size replica of business office of the town, consummate amongst working Vikings. It is made upwardly of 4 or five dwellings, gardens together with boats. The Vikings teach most their trouble concern doing their daily chores including smithy work. One calendar week inward July they gear upwardly a Viking marketplace every bit well. In my persuasion it is the tour guides who make
the trip extra special. They are all archæology students together with you lot tin sack experience their passion for their work. There are lx minutes long tours inward both Swedish together with English linguistic communication every bit good every bit a after tour designed for children. Speaking of which, this is a cracking trip to cause got children on! I sent a solid unit of measurement of 4 from Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany in that location concluding calendar week together with it was a big hit. Otherwise I recommend this twenty-four lx minutes menstruation trip for nature together with history lovers alike...
Strömma is the companionship that runs the tours. They teach out daily (mid May to mid
September) from City Hall at 9:30am together with you lot are dorsum inward town at 5pm (this gives you lot almost 4 hours on the island- plenty fourth dimension to cause got the tour, watch the museum together with cause got lunch). There is a cafe on board the boat every bit good every bit a eating theatre on the island. The cost of the tour is 295 SEK, one-half off for children betwixt half dozen together with 11. Included inward the cost is the boat trips (with on board guide), museum entrance together with guided tour of the island.
t my weekend every bit tour guide for my friend visiting from Wales... nosotros took a trip to Birka for the day. Birka is considered to endure Sweden's showtime town together with was active (750-960 A.D.) inward the Viking Age amongst a population of most 700 people at its elevation (around 3,000 graves cause got been found). Birka was an of import trading midpoint every bit seen past times grave items constitute originating inward the Middle-East together with mainland Europe. Archaeologists don't know precisely why the town was abandoned, but, at most the same time, nearby Sigtuna rose inward importance. Birka is located on the isle of Björkö inward lake Mälaren, most an lx minutes together with 45 infinitesimal boat ride inland fro
m Stockholm. During the Viking Age the H2O grade was much higher together with Birka was straight connected to the Baltic Sea.Today the isle together with archaeological site are on UNESCO's World Heritage list. If you lot teach to Birka expecting to meet the fabulous ruins of an ancient metropolis similar Machu Pichu, you lot volition endure disappointed. Birka was built mainly of woods together with all that is left are the grave mounds together with dark world together with it takes a picayune imagination to envision what the town 1 time loo
ked like. Fortunately visitors are helped showtime past times visiting the on-site museum where they cause got miniature replicas of what the town may cause got looked similar every bit good every bit eager together with knowledgable tour guides who cause got you lot through the grave fields together with the site of where the town 1 time stood. H5N1 recent add-on to the site is a life size replica of business office of the town, consummate amongst working Vikings. It is made upwardly of 4 or five dwellings, gardens together with boats. The Vikings teach most their trouble concern doing their daily chores including smithy work. One calendar week inward July they gear upwardly a Viking marketplace every bit well. In my persuasion it is the tour guides who make
the trip extra special. They are all archæology students together with you lot tin sack experience their passion for their work. There are lx minutes long tours inward both Swedish together with English linguistic communication every bit good every bit a after tour designed for children. Speaking of which, this is a cracking trip to cause got children on! I sent a solid unit of measurement of 4 from Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany in that location concluding calendar week together with it was a big hit. Otherwise I recommend this twenty-four lx minutes menstruation trip for nature together with history lovers alike...Strömma is the companionship that runs the tours. They teach out daily (mid May to mid
September) from City Hall at 9:30am together with you lot are dorsum inward town at 5pm (this gives you lot almost 4 hours on the island- plenty fourth dimension to cause got the tour, watch the museum together with cause got lunch). There is a cafe on board the boat every bit good every bit a eating theatre on the island. The cost of the tour is 295 SEK, one-half off for children betwixt half dozen together with 11. Included inward the cost is the boat trips (with on board guide), museum entrance together with guided tour of the island.
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