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About Sweden and Norway
About Sweden
Our Sweden tour’s are very rural. We just stay in one town along the “Coast & Forest tour” with less than 100,000 inhabitants. All other nights we stay in smaller towns and villages, or by a lake or river. Almost all of our tours are on roads that have little traffic or none at all – you can ride for miles without meeting a single vehicle, on trails where you do not see anyone at all.
The tour runs through picturesque countryside with red and white houses, where generations used to live off agriculture and forestry, though most people are now based in other industries. Most of the roads that we ride on have gravel surfaces. Around 10 percent are of soil, the same again of asphalt, and we occasionally cover other surfaces like grass and sand.
Geography
The roads in Småland wind through a landscape with lots of pine and some broad leaves, interspersed with cultivated areas and small farms engaged in a combination of forestry and agriculture. In addition to forest and agricultural land, there are many lakes in the countryside – 100,000 in all Sweden and about 5,000 in Småland. Very often we pass lakes and gain some beautiful views. Since the Swedish ice sheet disappeared about 9,000 years ago, there are no sharp or high mountains left. This rolling landscape is perfect for biking.
Climate
Wildlife
About Norway
The areas we drive through are sparsely populated, and we enjoy winding, beautiful roads in mountainous regions and sometimes along the spectacular fjords. The populated areas are mainly south of Oslo and along the coast since the mountains cover two-thirds of the country. In the valleys, there are villages and farmland.
Lower mountain areas are often forested, but above 1000 meters there is usually only sparse vegetation. In the western parts of the country, the mountains are high and the roads winding and paved. In the eastern parts, the mountains are lower and there are more gravel roads. We looked up some of Norway’s most spectacular roads and included them in the tours.
Routes are mixed to provide a varied motorcycle adventure; the unique landscape with high mountains surrounding fjords makes Norway a world-class destination for motorcycling. The routes are mixed to provide a varied motorcycle adventure; the unique landscape with high mountains surrounding the fjords makes Norway a world-class destination for motorcycling.
Geography
The country cover 385,207 square kilometres and much of the country is dominated by mountainous or high terrain, with a great variety of natural features caused by prehistoric glaciers and varied topography. The most noticeable of these are the fjords. Sognefjorden is the world's second deepest fjord. Norway has about 400,000 lakes and 239,057 registered islands.
Climate
There are large seasonal variations in daylight. From late May to late July, the sun never completely descends beneath the horizon in areas north of the Artic Circle, and the rest of the country experiences up to 20 hours of daylight per day.