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1 month scandinavia itinerary

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Dear all,
Please kindly give your suggestion for my plan/itinerary. We (my husband and I) are planning to go to Iceland, Norway and capital city of Scandinavia, during our 4 weeks holiday in middle of Oct until Nov. We like to explore as many “only worth visit” as possible
We will start from UK (but not our home country) and end from Copenhagen
Plan 1.
UK to Iceland (flight)– 1 week
Iceland to Bergen (flight) – 3-4 days, rent a car exploring fjords around Bergen.
Bergen to Lofoten (Leknes by flight) – 3-4 days, rent a car around Lofoten until Svolvaer.
Svolvaer to Tromso overnight by Havilla/Hurtigruten port to port, 1 or 2 days in Tromso for Northern Light.
Tromso to Kirkenes, 3 days by Hurtigruten Cruise, hoping for Norther Light again.
Kirkenes, 2 days for Norther Light, King Crab and Snow Hotel.
Kirkenes to Oslo (by flight) – 2 days
Oslo to Helsinki/Stockholm (flight) – 2 days
Helsinki/Stockholm to Stockholm/Helsinki – 2 days
Stockholm/Helsinki to Copenhagen – 2 days and go home

Plan 2.
UK to Bergen (flight) – 3-4 days, rent a car exploring fjords around Bergen.
Bergen to Lofoten (Leknes by flight) – 3-4 days, rent a car around Lofoten until Svolvaer.
Svolvaer to Tromso overnight by Havilla/Hurtigruten port to port, 1 or 2 days in Tromso for Northern Light.
Tromso to Kirkenes, 3 days by Hurtigruten Cruise, hoping for Norther Light again.
Kirkenes, 2 days for Norther Light, King Crab and Snow Hotel.
Kirkenes to Oslo (by flight) – 2 days
Oslo to Helsinki/Stockholm (flight) – 2 days
Helsinki/Stockholm to Stockholm/Helsinki – 2 days
Stockholm/Helsinki to Iceland – 1 week
Iceland to Copenhagen – 2 days and go home

This part:
Svolvaer to Tromso overnight by Havilla/Hurtigruten port to port, 1 or 2 days in Tromso for Northern Light.
Tromso to Kirkenes, 3 days by Hurtigruten Cruise, hoping for Norther Light again.

Could be substitute with Hurtigruten from Svolvaer to Kirkenes, with stop over 4 hour in Tromso. I hope other place I visit (Iceland, Lofoten, during Hurtigruten cruise dan Kirkenes) already get chances to see Northern Light. Is it possible?

Because it will be in the middle of October until middle of November, I plan to have big cities in the end of itinerary (plan 1), to avoid (little bit) coldness and weather uncertainties in Iceland. Is it correct perception?
Is my itinerary doable and which place should I add or just delete?
Thankyou all for kind recommendation.

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What was first coming to my mind: the leg Svolvaer to Tromso will bring you to a “only worth visit” called Trollfjord (photo). Direction southbound would allow you to see it at daylight. In the night you would not see much of it. Same with whole Raftsund.

What is "capital city of Scandinavia" for you?

Generally speaking: both sortings of destinations are from content the same. A main question would be if you have luck with the weather; clear sky is must-have for Northern Lights.

You spend not mch time in Stockholm and Copenhagen. Fine if they do not attract you / your interests.

Instead of Helsinki you could also check Tallinn.

I do not understand what are your interests? Because that makes places an “only worth visit” for one traveler but not for the other one.

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Add a day onto Helsinki and use it to visit Tallinn. (Two hours each way by ferry.)

Don't assume Iceland is colder than other parts of Scandinavia. I checked for November 1 and the expected termperature difference(high) in Reykjavik, Stockholm and Helsinki is one degree.

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Thankyou for responses. My interest is natural scenery.. During my research, i havent found must visit place in Finland and Denmark, so i thought just visit the capital city.

I will add Talinn.

My consideration is we have to rent a car to explore wild iceland, so better early when the weather is more stable, than big cities which we can use public transportation.

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