Safari Camping

Hiking and cycling are popular in both the Rebild Bakker National Park and the Rold Forest, as are swimming and fishing in the forest's lakes, brooks and springs. For a Danish adventure of an unexpected flavour, make your way deep into the forest to visit the replica of Abraham Lincoln's log cabin home, or hang around the region at the start of July to take part in the Fourth of July celebrations as part of a weekend festival welcoming Danish-Americans to their homeland. A few kilometres away, the former Thingbæk limestone mines are now home to underground exhibitions. In the south-eastern stretch of Rold Forest is the lake of Madum, the Himmerland peninsula's largest lake covering 204 hectares of clear water and surrounded by a sandy beach. The lake is a famed birdwatching spot and an international protected area for birds too: expect to spy swans, coots and grebes, as well as ospreys diving into the water to snatch a specimen or two from the lake's many pike and perch.