Bergs Slussar - Borensberg (boat cruise approx. 3,5 hours)

After you have eaten breakfast, it is time to cycle to Bergs Slussar and board the passenger boat M / S Wasa Lejon which departs at 10.00. You leave the bike at the tourist information at Bergs Slussar. With M / S Wasa Lejon you get to experience one of the most beautiful parts of the Göta Canal. The boat cruise runs between Berg - Borensberg and offers a breathtaking experience from the start. It is an impressive lock staircase that at first glance seems impossible to climb. The journey continues through a living countryside with houses and manors from the 1700th and 1800th centuries. The boat glides along avenues of stately deciduous trees. In total, you pass nine locks, including Östergötland's only hand-operated lock. During the tour you also get a very special experience when the boat passes over the aqueducts in Ljungsbro and Borensberg. Lunch is enjoyed on board while the boat glides forward at 5 knots. The boat arrives in Borensberg around 13.30. We recommend that you take an excursion to the capital of the Göta Canal, Motala. Here is the Göta Canal exhibition "From idea to reality". You will find the exhibition in one of the two pavilions next to the canal in the area of ​​Old Motala Workshop, between Borenshult's locks and Motala guest harbor in Lake Vättern. The exhibition shows how Baltzar von Platen took the 300-year-old idea of ​​building a waterway across Sweden and realized it by building the Göta Canal. Here you get to meet the people who made it possible to build the channel and the technology they used.