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Vasteras is the country’s sixth largest city. The magnificent city is situated next to majestic Lake Malaren. Once you reach the water, it offers a most serene and peaceful respite (from the hustle and bustle of Vasteras’s city center.)

The lake may best be described as a beautiful tranquil blue during the day, meeting an equally blue sky with fluffy white clouds while sunsets offer an “orangey” and gold sky casting a yellow colored glow on the motionless and calm waters. The cityscape offers an interesting design due to early architectural elements.

A most enjoyable activity in which to partake in Vasteras is bicycling. There are appointed lanes for this leisure sport beside the Malaren Lake as well as the Svartan River. Additionally, there are 300 km of trails of this nature for you to explore. Without question, bicycling is one of the city’s most favored forms of transportation. You may also get around the city by walking, sailing or driving to its many sites.

Should you wish to explore the town center, the suggestion here is to do so on foot. Kyrkbacken is just minutes from the central square and offers its visitors a wonderful glimpse of the seventeenth century including romantic cobble stone streets; crafters’ workshops and timber buildings, actually authentic to the time period!

Mikael Genberg is one of Vasteras’s local artisans who put together a project wherein a tree house was built 13 M up a three hundred fifty year old oak tree. The tree is found in a park within close proximity and the tree house is available to one overnight guest. Should you choose this method of accommodation, your guests will need to gain access to you by means of rope and pulley.

If heights bother you, then artist Genberg has something totally unique in store for you, that being an underwater hotel that sleeps two in the middle of Lake Malaren. Basically, the unusual hotel allows its guests to view fish through glass panels, while lying in their beds, underwater. For emergencies, the hotel provides its guests an inflatable canoe, wherein patrons may reach the nearest possible island.

If you prefer, you may also take a boat to some of the more distant islands from the city center. One such choice location is Ridon, basically a forty minute jaunt by way of catamaran. Once you arrive, you have the pleasurable option of doing your sightseeing by way of pony ride. The Icelandic ponies offer an overall satisfactory riding experience as they trot smoothly over the countryside-something of special significance to their breed!

Ridon is a nature reserve where you may review ally types of wonderful wildlife. It is among forty wildlife reserves in the Vastmanland district. Here you will find animals such as elk enjoying their natural habitat.

Further, if you are interested in visiting Vasteras in the winter, there are winter sports such as cross-country skiing and ice skating!