Produktion: Megafon • All the information you need to plan your trip is available in bro­ FISHING CAMPING GOOD TO KNOW Boat Hiker’s Map So close and yet chures and timetables which you will get when you buy your There is pike, perch and herring in the Stockholm archipelago. Some- The areas for tents are not classified as camping grounds in the • Activate your Boat Hiking Card in the ticket Boat Hiking Card. You can also visit www.minisemester.nu and times there is even salmon, trout, pike-perch and whitefish. Fishing archipelago, in the way that they are ashore. Here it is a question machine on board, at every trip. You will so different www.waxholmsbolaget.se with hand rods is free for everyone. However, be aware of bird pro- of basic comfort – and an amazing experience in nature. There are then be given a ticket to hand to the ticket • The Card is valid as from the first trip you make. That means you tection areas and don’t go closer to professional anglers and their camping grounds in Finnhamn, Fjärdlång, Grinda, Rånö, Nåttarö and collector as you step ashore. The archipelago of Stockholm is like another country, can buy it well ahead of time and plan your trip without any rush. equipment than 100 metres. Utö. Several of Skärgårdsstiftelsen’s nature reserves have spots for • don’t forget to use the signal, the round yet only a few sea miles from the capital. Everything • The Boat Hiking Card is available at our terminals by Strömkajen resting and camping. Please refer to the brochure “The Stockholm sign by the jetty, and put it vertically in Stockholm, in Stavsnäs and Vaxholm, as well as in Sverigehuset BIKES, ROWING BOATS, CANOES AND KAYAKS Archipelago” or visit www.skargardsstiftelsen.se if you want the boat and captain to is so different out here, far away from everyday life in and at several tourist agencies in the archipelago. It’s often better and easier to rent a bike than to bring your own one pick you up. If it is dark you will need the city. Often this is precisely what the city folk need along, as it is usually pretty crowded on board the boats. There are A SORT OF ECO TOURISM a flashlight to signal with. PACK LIGHT BUT RIGHT – a mini-holiday. A day out at Utö or perhaps a few bikes to rent at over 20 islands. Some islands even rent out rowing Boat hiking is a gentle form of tourism. You ride along on boats • The final destination is not always stated There are greater chances of sun out in the archipelago than in land, boats, canoes and kayaks. For more information, please refer to se- that are in traffic at any rate, you shop in local stores, rent rooms on the boat. Therefore, boat hikers may well days at Finn hamn. Welcome on board! but make sure to bring rain clothes and a warm sweater, especially at parate brochures. from the locals or check into one of the cosy hostels. That way you head the wrong direction, especially when the beginning of the summer before the water out in the archipelago contribute to a living archipelago society. You also contribute to boats bound for Stockholm arrive at the same THE NORTHERN, MID- AND SOUTHERN is warm. Mosquito oil, sun protection and a pair of tweezers that are SWITCH OVER TO ANOTHER TOUR WITH work opportunities and to protect the unique flora and fauna of the time as boats bound for the archipelago. Ask BOAT HIKING FAIRWAYS handy to take out ticks with are good things to take. We also recom- A ROWING BOAT OR HIKING archipelago. the staff if you are not sure! To make it easy for you to look around the archipelago, we have a mend a water bottle, as drinking water can be scarce in some islands. On some islands it is possible to switch over between different boat Five Swedish crowns from your Boat Hiking Card goes towards the • Some islands have several jetties. At Svartsö few tour suggestions to make. The Northern, Mid and Southern Boat If you are camping you need a camping stove as there is a restriction fairways. Some places even let you do this with the help of a rowing project “Living Archipelago” the project of Skärgårdsstiftelsen for example, Norra Svartsö jetty is in the Hiking Fairways. They are described in detail below and on the back on open fires in the archipelago. boat. They are strategically placed so that you can row to an island (”Levande Skärgårdsnatur”). More than 20 years’ of persistent hard northern part, whereas Alsvik’s jetty is on you can find a map with all our tours. Most of them start at Ström- across the water and switch over to another boat tour. The only work is now showing results. For example, the number of sea eagles the southern side of the island and is kajen in Stockholm, but some also depart from Vaxholm and Stavs- BUY WHAT YOU NEED FROM THE LOCALS request is that you first row across and pick up the other available and seals have increased in the archipelago! therefore connected to another tour. näs. From here you can make day trips or longer trips. Regardless of Take the opportunity to shop local produce, as this will support rowing boat so that no side is without. your choice, we recommend you get Waxholmsbolaget’s Boat Hiking the local inhabitants but also because you can get some very good THE DISABLED Card. That allows you to travel as much as you want during five days. quality produce that way. You can often also rent bikes or enjoy HOSTELS AND BED & BREAKFAST Even if you are disabled, it is quite possible to be a tourist in the bed & breakfast. Please visit www.skargardshandlarna.com for more There are plenty of nice places to stay overnight in the archipelago. Stockholm archipelago. Most of our modern boats are spacious and WAXHOLMSBOLAGET’S BOAT HIKING CARD information. In the brochures that accompany your Boat Hiking Card you will find have toilet for the disabled and helpful staff. If you would like to go • The Boat Hiking Card costs SEK 340 and is valid for 5 days on all more information. Make sure to make reservations well ahead of Bring a hand rod and fish anywhere Nåttarö. Foto: Malcolm Hanes ashore, there are several suitable islands. Please refer to our brochure our tours. They are also valid on board the Cinderella boats. time. Especially the hostels tend to get fully booked in summer. Bed in the Stockholm archipelago. “Skärgård för alla”. & breakfast is always booked through the host or hostess directly. Foto: Malcolm Hanes Foto: Magnus Rietz Arholma Idö Alternative 1 overnight, this is a good place for camping. hosts an inn and one of the best restaurants in the archipelago Lidö Norrtälje The Northern ÄngSö NationAL pArk Rödlögaboden’s charming Café Truten If you go all the way to Rödlöga you will have less time ashore, but (awarded Best restaurant in the Archipelago in 2006). There is also Fejan Ängsö is home to most of Roslagen’s magnificent scenery and was de- on the island of Rödlöga. on the other hand you have now reached as far out into the archi- a hostel and some nice cottages to rent. Fairway signated a national park in 1909. Winding through the fields and pas­ pelago as you can through the regular boat traffic. Here you will find A bit further into the island you will find Lidö Gård, a small-scale Furusund Norröra tures is a network of hiking paths, from where you may occasionally a small store with a summer café and great places to go swimming. ecological farm with cows, sheep and horses as well as a farm store in Söderöra Ängsö You travel via Vaxholm through Roslagen. Half way catch a glimpse of a sea eagle or fish hawk. There are plenty of bathing Please refer to more information in the brochure “Archipelago Tours“. the guest harbour. For the rest, Lidö is largely unpopulated with natu- Rödlöga ral forests. The island is owned by Skärgårdsstiftelsen. For more infor- Svartlöga there, the fairway parts and you can choose between areas and a Nature Room with a small but interesting exhibition. Östanå Siaröfortet BACK TowardS SToCKHoLM mation, please refer to their publication “The Stockholm Archipelago”. Ljusterö classic destinations like Fejan, Idö and Arholma in the SL You can catch the boat back into Stockholm again. Or you can take Finnhamn FURUSUND Ingemarsö north, or Saltkråkorna’s Norröra, Rödlöga and Svartlöga the boat m/s Viggen from Rödlöga to Furusund and then catch a bus IDÖ Svartsö The boat trip continues to Furusund. Here you will find several historical Lådna Möja locations near the steamboat jetty; the windmill, the optical telegraph, via Norrtälje to Stockholm. The buses run several times a day. Idö is yet another of Skärgårdsstiftelsen’s many islands. By Idöfladen Vaxholm Grinda Stavsudda out in the outer parts of the archipelago. Gällnö the elegant bath hotel from the turn of the century and several of you will find the so called “Blomsterfållan”, known for its flowers and Granholmen Alternative 2 Stockholm’s northern archipelago is reached with m/s Sjöbris and August Strindberg’s summer residences. The island is connected by abundance of orchids. There is a telephone and notice board with Stockholm FEJan Värmdö m/s Sjögull from Strömkajen in Stockholm, Vaxholm or Östanå. boat ferry to both Yxlan and Blidö, and there are bridges to the main - information by the jetty.