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throughout city, pay driver, tel. 25 55 66 88,
www.city-sightseeing.dk
) and
Open Top Tours
(green buses, 175 kr, 35 kr more to add cruise on Canal
Tours Copenhagen, ticket good for 24 hours, 2/hour, departures 10:00-16:00,
www.stromma.dk/en/opentoptours
)
. Another operation—called
Step On
Step Off
—does a similar route with slightly lower frequency (every 45
minutes in summer, hourly in winter; 170 kr/1 day, 200 kr/2 days,
City Sightseeing also runs jaunts into the countryside, with themes such as
Vikings, castles, and Hamlet. There are other companies as well; a variety of
guided bus tours depart from Rådhuspladsen in front of the Palace Hotel.
▲Bike Copenhagen with Mike
—Mike Sommerville offers a good three-
hour, guided tour of the city daily at 10:30 (with a second departure at 14:30
Tue-Wed, Fri, and Sat in June-Aug, and on Sat in Sept; 290 kr including
bike rental, cash only). A Copenhagen native, Mike enjoys showing off his
city to visitors by biking at a leisurely pace, “along the high roads, low
roads, inroads, and off-roads of Copenhagen.” All tours are in English, and
depart from the Bike Copenhagen with Mike tour base at Sankt Peders
a night tour, a countryside tour, and private tours; see the details at
(See “The Strøget & Copenhagen's Heart & Soul Walk” map,
here
.)
Start from Rådhuspladsen (City Hall Square), the bustling heart of Copen-
hagen, dominated by the tower of the City Hall. Today this square always
seems to be hosting some lively community event, but it was once Copenha-
gen's fortified west end. For 700 years, Copenhagen was contained within its
city walls. By the mid-1800s, 140,000 people were packed inside. The over-
crowding led to hygiene problems. (A cholera outbreak killed 5,000.) It was
