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In this video, we celebrate the Swedish National Day in Leksand. We hike through our first National Park and visit a producer of the Dalarna horses, hand-carved wooden horses painted mostly in red.
Örebro
We start the vlog in Örebro, where we do some shopping and visit the open-air museum of Wadköping. This museum houses old buildings from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries that were moved here so they can be preserved for history. There are shops as well as craft workshops in these buildings so that you can get even more of a feel of the history of the middle of Sweden.
We drive to a nature camping afterwards, where we are completely beside a lake. We work in a lovely building and hike and mountain bike over the next few days.
National Day in Sweden
Sweden started celebrating its national day on the 6th of June. Prior to 1983, this day was celebrated as Swedish Flag Day. But it took until 2005 for the National Day to become a public holiday, and the celebrations really started to take off.
We spend National Day in Leksand, where there are some festivities around the holiday.
Roadtrip around Siljan, Dalarna
We drove around Lake Siljan, the largest lake in Dalarna and the sixth largest in Sweden. In Rättvik, we walked across the 628-meter-long Långbryggan, a bridge that was built to allow the ferry to reach the village because the lake was very shallow. With the help of locals, the bridge was rebuilt not too long ago.
And you can’t be in Dalarna and not visit Nusnäs where you can find the factories of the famous Dalarna horses. These horses are historically painted red, but you can find them in several colours these days. We went to a factory where we could see the entire process, from rough wood all the way to the freshly painted visited horses. It was interesting to see how these were made and why they became popular.
We also walk around Mora, where there is a huge Dalarna horse that went all the way to the US for a world fair.
Hamra National Park
We end this vlog with a visit to our first Swedish National Park: Hamra National Park. The park had several different areas, with pine forests and wetlands. The wetlands were very wet, as it had rained a lot recently, so you had to follow the wooden beams to keep dry feet.
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