Travel to 12 ports of call in the rich and beautiful north, a part of Europe that travelers often overlook. Your itinerary includes Norway"s Bergen, where quaint, colorful buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries line narrow streets; festive Copenhagen, where famed Tivoli Gardens amusement park is a living fairy tale; Polands Gdansk, where daring workers" strikes helped bring down Communism; sophisticated Helsinki, one of the first planned municipalities in Europe; cosmopolitan Oslo, where most candid and controversial sculptures depict human life cycle-outdoors; Iceland"s Reykjavik, where Viking settlers established the world"s first parliament in 930; Germany"s Rostock, which still conveys a charmingly medieval personality; imperial St. Petersburg, where complex history mixes high culture and cutthroat politics; Norway"s Stavanger, an oil center with an old town of cobblestone walkways and whitewashed buildings; breathtaking Stockholm, whose green spaces and waterways account for sixty percwent of the city"s size; Estonia"s Tallinn, where strategic location on the Baltic Sea has enticed many invaders; and charming Trondheim, Norway"s first capital. Enjoy a fresh and enchanting approach to Europe. Extra Feature: Top 10 Attractions - You can inspect a 1,000 year-old Viking ship in Oslo. Watch czarist leaders and their families return to life in St. Petersburg. And go swimming outdoors in Iceland - in Reykjavik"s geothermally-heated Blue Lagoon. This program puts those things and others on your "must-do" list.