• Stockholm
  

  
  Sweden's capital is also its most attractive city, with its many waterways and boat rides, narrow cobbled streets of Gamla Stan (Old City), world-class museums, cutting-edge designers, extensive dining scene and boutique hotels. It's also the gateway to the Stockholm Archipelago - a scattering of tranquil forested islands.
  
  

• Sweden's lakes
  

  
  Sweden has numerous large lakes, particularly in the south of the country - ideal for canoeing, kayaking, fishing, boating and camping. Some, like Lake Siljan, have legends attributed to them, such as that of the lake monster.
  
  

• Lapland in winter
  

  
  Lapland, or the northern part of Sweden, is particularly appealing to travelers in winter when they can take part in husky and reindeer sledding, snowmobiling, skiing, snoeshoeing, spotting the eerie northern lights near Abisko and Kiruna and driving cars on frozen lakes. Sweden's Lapland is part of the ancestral land of the reindeer-herding Sami, Europe's only indigenous people. You can attend the Jokkmokk Winter Market, complete with live music, Sami cuisine and reindeer races.
  
  

• Vasa Museum
  

  
  The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun ...
  
  

• Sweden's innovative accommodations
  

  
  Sweden has a number of imaginative lodgings. These include the winter-only Icehotel the award-winning futuristic design of Treehotel where you can sleep in a spaceship or giant cube, rustic Kolarbyn Ecolodge hidden in the woods, the floating Salt i Sill and the [Sala Silvergruva], a hotel in the depths of a silver mine.
  
  

• Bohuslän coast
  

  
  The Bohuslän coast, on the west side of Sweden, is a favorite summer vacation spot for many Swedes, with its picture-perfect seaside villages, rocky cliffs, numerous forested islands and skerries, alive with seabirds. Fjällbacka was the favorite retreat of movie star Ingrid Bergman, Tjörn is where a regatta is held in August and there are plenty of secluded spots for sunbathing and swimming.
  
  

• Stockholm archipelago
  

  
  Consisting of hundreds of islands and skerries, some inhabited but most not, the Stockholm archipelago makes a popular summer day trip out of the city. Regular boats ferry passengers to the likes of Finnhamn and Svartsö - all lush forest and sheltered coves for sunbathing and swimming.
  
  

• Swedish cuisine
  

  
  It's difficult to have a bad meal in Sweden and there's plenty to choose from - from the humble meatballs with mash and lingonberries, and the acquired taste of surströmming (fermented herring) to Arctic Swedish cuisine that uses a lot of game and fish, Michelin-starred restaurants in Stockholm and Gothenburg and plenty of international cuisine on top of that.
  
  

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