Sight-seeing in the cities around the world usually includes a double decker and a loud speaker. In Copenhagen you’ve got some interesting alternatives. Certainly, Copenhagen by bike is an interesting experience with the great biking culture you’ll find there, excellent infrastructure where bikes have their own lanes and traffic lights. But one of my favorites is kayaking. Ole, better known as Kayak-Ole started offering Copenhagen sight-seeing tours on kayaks on the canals of the city sometime last decade and they’re gaining increased popularity. You get real close to the city and it’s life lanes in an interesting, alternative way.
For those with children or “less advanced” kayaking skills, you can sail in open tourist boats around the canals with a loud speaker telling you stories. We’ve taken our guests on that tour many times as it’s a tour anyone can enjoy and quite a cheap one too.
Since we weren’t really looking for sight-seeing around the city, having lived there for six years, we decided to spend the sunday afternoon kayaking at Amager Strandpark, a new man-made beach and waterplayground. There’s a place called Kajakhotellet where you can rent kayaks to play on, which we did. You might get your butt wet (as you can see ...), but it's worth it. I took the smaller kids with me for shorter rides which they really loved and we ended the day on jumping into the water. Well, at least some of them did :).
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