What We Visited With the 48-Hour Copenhagen Card – Part 2
Date: July 11, 2018
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
B.A.Livin’ Savings: ~$475 total over three days
48 hour Copenhagen Card: 1,188 DKK Danish Krone – per person (48 hour Copenhagen Card cost 568 DKK and to pay individually for the museums and transportation would have cost 1,757 DKK)
72 hour Copenhagen Card: 1,838 DKK Danish Krone – per person (72 hour Copenhagen Card cost 689 DKK and to pay individually for the museums and transportation would have cost 2,527 DKK)
What We Visited With the 48-Hour Copenhagen Card – Part 2
With the Copenhagen Card valid the entire second day, we left the Airbnb at around 8:00 am to take a bus about 2 hours north of Copenhagen to Fredensborg. In Fredensborg, we went to Falkonergården for the 10:00 am show. Falkonergården is run by a husband and wife. They currently have 17 birds of prey, six of which we were able to see during our visit. The show was in Danish, unfortunately, and we were the only people who spoke English. However, the husband told us to sit on the side and he translated for us as each of the birds came out.
This is a small falcon.
This is also a falcon but a little bit bigger.
The next bird, again going up in size, is a hawk. Falcons catch their prey with their beak. Hawks catch their prey with the talons on their feet.
This is the same hawk after the hood has been taken off.
The largest bird we saw is the eagle below. One interesting observation was that each of the birds would spread their wings to shield and hide the prey in their handler’s hand while eating.
Here is the eagle soaring towards Brian. The eagle flew up just about a foot from Brian’s face and over his head.
For the last bird, the handler came out on an Icelandic horse with a falcon. At the start the falcon had a hood on.
Here is the falcon after the hood was taken off.
We enjoyed seeing the birds of prey, even though the show was in Danish. After the show we traveled east to Helsingør for the Danish Museum of Science and Technology.
The museum has old cars, bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes in it.
The museum has a space capsule.
Here is the parachute that slowed the space capsule for a water landing.
Brian was able to sit in one of the planes, a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
We felt like the museum should probably have had a different name, as we didn’t feel like there was much science information in the museum. We then took a bus towards the coast and had lunch in Vaerftets Madmarked food court.
We then visited Kronborg Castle.
Kronborg Castle is the castle that Shakespeare set Hamlet in.
Around the castle there are actors who play out scenes from Hamlet.
This is the top of one of the towers looking out towards Helsingborg, Sweden.
In the castle courtyard.
Here is Yorrick, the court Jester, as kids threw wet sponges at him.
One of the kids also wanted in on the attention. His mother tried teaching him a lesson, but the sponge wasn’t even close.
It was fun to see actors around the castle. We saw the scene where Hamlet meets his father’s ghost played out in the castle basement, which was pretty neat.
Close to Kronborg Castle is the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark. We stopped in for a visit after departing the castle. Here are some pictures from a ceremony with King Neptune to celebrate the crossing of the Atlantic. The certificate the sailors received is on the right in the picture below. It was funny to see the certificate, as there was a similar ceremony when we crossed the Atlantic on the Royal Caribbean Jewel of the Seas back in May!
The building opened in 2013 and is very modern and well-organized. However, we felt the Maritime museum in Oslo was a lot more enjoyable.
We started south and stopped at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The museum has over 3,000 art works and there is a sculpture garden.
After taking the bus back to Copenhagen, we got to the center at around 7:00 pm and went to The Round Tower, Rundetaarn.
Inside the tower, to get to the top we had to go up a smooth, spiral walkway with no steps. There are only a few steps near the very top.
Here is the view from the top.
The large bridge below connects Copenhagen and Malmö, Sweden.
The Copenhagen Card also covers entry to the Guinness World Records museum. Some of the items are the same as those we saw in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and I enjoyed that museum more. Connected to the Guinness World Records museum is The Mystic Exploratorie. The description of the museum is ‘horror, illusions and eerie, mysterious phenomena are the themes’. I thought it was going to be scary, but it wasn’t at all, and the museum is very small.
To end the day, we went to Tivoli Gardens, an amusement park, but the entrance fee only covers getting in and does not include rides. If you want to go on any of the rides there is an additional fee. With the Copenhagen Card we were able to get inside for free.
The park has many restaurants and there are some stages where shows take place.
The gardens around the park were nice.
It was a long day! Even with all of the public transportation we took, we still walked over 12 miles.
Check out Part 3 of our Copenhagen Card post series for our third and final day.
