Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Tourist Office
TOURIST INFORMATION
(
87 87 88 88;
www.visitviborg.dk
; Skottenborg 12-14;
10am-5pm Mon-Fri, to 2pm Sat Jun-Aug,
10am-4pm Mon-Fri Sep-May)
Clued up on the area, with good brochures and maps, plus bike hire (Dkr100 per day).
This office is a little out of the centre; there's a smaller second branch inside the Viborg
Museum on central Hjultorvet.
Getting There & Away
Viborg is 66km northwest of Aarhus on Rte 26 and 44km west of Randers on Rte 16.
Regular trains run to/from Aarhus (Dkr138, 70 minutes). The train station is 1km southw-
est of the cathedral.
CENTRAL WEST COAST
The sweeping, windswept coastline of the central west is dotted with small settlements full
of campgrounds and holiday houses, catering primarily to German and Danish summer
tourists. The fjordside town of
Ringkøbing
(population 9700) is a pleasant, if unremark-
able, place acting as a service centre for the beachside communities - it's connected to the
Danish train network and regular buses link it with towns down the coast.
Ringkøbing's marina is a good spot for wandering: old fishermen's huts contrast with
modern development and there's a handful of restaurants. There's an excellent hostel and a
central old hotel in town, but the holiday activity is happening elsewhere.
The coast's most flaunted area is Holmsland Klit, the thin neck of sand and dunes
stretching nearly 35km from north to south and separating the North Sea from Ringkøbing
Fjord.
Hvide Sande
Pop 3050
Hvide Sande (meaning 'white sands') owes its existence to the wind. Wind caused the
sand migration that forced the construction of a lock here in 1931 to assure a North Sea
