Private Tour
Private Tour: Swedish History Day Trip to World Heritage Candidate Markim-Orkesta from Stockholm
Overview
Available languages
5 hours
Mobile ticket
Come and see the countryside for a while, get out of the crowded city for 5h and take a look at the historical and cultural lanscape unice for Sweden. This tour includes a pick up and drop of at your hotel. It gives a tour out in the contryside with cossy red cabins including Swedish history. Se the bronze age remenants, viking age runstones, mediveal chuches and a unice visit to the conutrysides cultural lanscape and cosy red cabins.
We visit Markim-Orkesta, a former UNESCO World Heritage candidate area. Markim-Orkesta are two church parishes filled with history from all eras of Sweden's past. This time traveling experience includes the Bronze age, Viking age and other eras in Swedish history. This tour will make you understand how Sweden has developed through history and how its past has helped shape this modern nation.
Additional Info
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Specialized infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Private tour, minimum 2 people per booking
A maximum of 12 people per booking
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Private transportation
Local guide
All taxes, fees and handling charges
Driver/guide
Air-conditioned vehicle
Professional guide
Lunch (at farm restaurant)
Gratuities
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
What To Expect
Visit a viking assembly place. Hear about the viking age and it's time, visit the lakeside..
Visit Vallentuna church 12th C church on your way to Markim-Orkesta. This church hold two runestones from the Viking Age, a reformatic church rroom and is very very cool place to be. Markim-Orkesta are two church parishes filled with history from all eras of Sweden's past. This time traveling experience includes the Bronze age, Viking age and other eras in Swedish history. Travel by vehicle (car, minivan or bus depending on group size) with a very knowledgeable local guide to this UNESCO World Heritage Candidate site. Come and learn about Viking culture, feel enchanted by their magic runes and Old Norse mythology. Learn about how Viking Swedes buried their dead and how Christianity changed Swedish society forever. This tour will make you understand how Sweden has developed through history and how its past has helped shape this modern nation. After the hotel pick-up, the tour will travel by vehicle toward Markim-Orkesta. You will travel through history at Markim-Orkesta and experience different eras and aspects of Swedish history. See the ruins of the very likely birthplace of King Vasa, the man who reformed the Swedish state and church from Catholicism to Lutheran Protestantism. Hear about his life and controversial rule. After hearing the intriguing history of King Vasa, journey on to a Christian Viking graveyard. Hear about the mighty burial rituals of the Vikings and how they vanished after Sweden was Christianized. You'll also see a local church which holds six rune stones on its land and hear the tale about the mighty and rich Viking Ulv who plundered England three times. See the splendid frescoes of the medieval church and feel the breath of Medieval Swedes through the stone walls as you learn about their religious lives.
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Private Tour: Swedish History Day Trip to World Heritage Candidate Markim-Orkesta from Stockholm
Pickup included
Reviews
8 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Excellent journey outside Stockholm
Page J,
Aug 17, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00This was a wonderful day trip. We had a private guide who was spectacular. Her English was wonderful with such a light accent we understood her perfectly. She was flexible in what we saw inline with the tour and let us pick differing lunch locations suiting both our tastes. The history, culture, and artifacts we experienced were top notch. The horse farm was a real treat, talking with the owner and seeing the beautiful animals and his land.
Do this!!! Vikings history and horses!
gaylan H,
Aug 2, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00Felix was great! He cared that we saw everything that we requested. He had all the information and was courteous. The Icelandic horse farm was the best part of our time in Sweden. The owners were genuine and incredibly kind!
Outstanding tour
Stephanie M,
Jul 10, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00Jonathon was outstanding! We had a wonderful time learning and exploring about Viking rune stones and the history of the area. We visited a ranch and up close to an Icelandic draft horse. They customized our tour to our interests which made the entire tour comfortable and enjoyable.
Great day tailored for what you want.
Terry T,
Aug 28, 2023
- Review from Viator
5.00We had a great day with Calle our guide. There were 3 of us including my granddaughter of 10. Calle tailored the tour to what we anted to do, a d also took us to places we would not have done. IncludIcelandic ponies and experimental viking village. All this culminating in visiting the Thokal stone U344. Can't recommend this highly enough. We all enjoyed it
A good day.
WENDY V,
Sep 22, 2019
- Review from Viator
4.00The trip was very interesting and learned quite a lot. More time to sit down to have a lunch would have been better as time was running out to see all the things. An extra history building or style of old home would have been good to have seen to mix it up a bit.
Very Knowledgeable guide! Angus...
LORIJ H,
Sep 25, 2017
- Review from Viator
5.00Very Knowledgeable guide! Angus showed us many sites, the churches and their history, the religion history and the stones! The rune were very interesting and the stories they told behind them which you would not be able to decipher on your own. Angus allowed us to ask many questions and he even answered personal questions about his living in the area for 6 generations. If you are interested in this area, this is a very good tour.
A personalized private tour
Jillmoe,
Mar 23, 2017
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My husband and I took the Private Tour: Swedish History Day Trip to World Heritage Candidate Markim-Orkesta from Stockholm. It was excellent. The two guides Angus and Jonathan were knowledgeable, friendly and very professional. It was nice to get out of city and see some of country side. The tour itself was full of history, stories, and had a real personal touch to it. We saw not only ruins but historical sites, farms and churches. They provided so much information that we couldn't get from reading a book or website. The pick up and drop off service from our hotel was helpful. Well worth the time and money. Highly recommend it!
My husband and I took a private tour...
Erin S,
Mar 22, 2017
- Review from Viator
5.00My husband and I took a private tour of the Swedish History Day trip. It was excellent. The two guides Angus and Jonathan were knowledgeable, friendly and provided a great tour. It was customized to the history of the area as well as they provided more information of Sweden when we asked. The pick up and drop off service from our hotel was helpful. Highly recommend it!
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