Gota Canal
A cruise on one of our canal ships is like journeying into another world. You turn off your mobile phone, leave the stress of everyday life behind, and give yourself a few days of total relaxation with good food, interesting encounters and rewarding conversations. The Göta Canal is one of the most remarkable waterways in the world and one of the communication links between Sweden's two largest cities. The canal itself is 190 km long, most of it dug out by hand. Between 1810 and 1832 some 58 000 soldiers removed 300 000 cubic metres of rock and earth in order to create the three-metre deep and app. 14-metre wide canal. The construction foreman and certainly the one who promoted the project most strongly was Baltzar von Platen.
2 days 1 night Motala to Soderkoping or v.v
3 days 2 nights Torboda to Soderkoping or v.v
4 days 3 nights Gothenburg to Stockholm or v.v
6 days 5 nights Gothenburg to Stockholm or v.v