Welcome to National Park Experiences, where we are specializing in Corporate Nature Connectedness Experiences – yet are always open for on-demand private groups, and pop-up group events bookable for individual explorers.

Once again, a warm welcome – we are thrilled you are visiting!

National Park Experiences is founded by Tanya Uhnger Wünsche, an experienced outdoor and nature based tourism professional with more than two decades of experience and education under her belt.

National Park Experiences are run on core values of deep, meaningful and transformative nature experience, tailored to all kinds and levels of nature loving explorers. Our main focus is ensuring you a deep experience of being connected to both the nature that surrounds you, and the nature within you. Our nature experiences are designed and facilitated with uttermost respect for the natural areas in which we operate and explore.

Our experience catalogue is operated on demand. Further, we have partnered with a range of festivals, pop-up events, and local initiatives.

In NEED FOR NATURE NATIONAL PARK EXPERIENCES we have partnered with Danish National Parks. This means that we are operating both on stage and behind the scenes in the development of local tourism infrastructure and always strive to provide public and corporate tourism experience initiatives and experiences that specifically emphasizes the enhancement of an experienced deepenend human-nature connectedness.

NEED FOR NATURE NATIONAL PARK EXPERIENCES operate in all Danish National Parks. Our main office is located in National Park Kongernes Nordsjælland, and we are a proud part of NEED FOR NATURE GROUP.

**STAFF:** 

All our guide staff are well educated, certified and skilled outdoor professionals. We have handpicked the best Outdoor recreation teachers, Nature- and Culture Interpreters, Climbing, Kayaking, Canoeing, Diving, Boating, Ballooning, Yoga, Mindfulness instructors Denmark has to offer, to ensure you a Nature Connectedness memory to last you a lifetime. As a corporation we value pristine nature, and the possibility to enjoy deep and profound experiences in it. We therefore, operate a strict Leave-No-Trace Policy, and in fact often try to regenerate and give back to the places we visit, and the fellow human beings visiting after our groups. We bring back all garbage we bring and find, we know and obey governmental rules and regulations for the areas we visit, we make sure to collect firewood for the next visitors in public nature spaces, and we might repair, refurbish or report any track, bridge, or shelter that we encounter out of order, during our National Park visits. 

All our element-experiences are carefully designed to pursue, spark, and nurture your intrinsic psychological need for nature and a connection to the more than human world. In our experience design we have taken a point of departure in six natural elements that we as experienced nature-based tourism professionals have great experience with as key paths to opening the human awareness to our surroundings. Further, all our experience products are based in Nature Connectedness Research evidence for drivers and factors that enhance the individual and collective experience of belonging and connection. Our guests usually describe an equal amount of experienced connectedness to the natural elements and environment, and connectedness to the fellow human beings with whom they share our National Park Experiences.

Furthermore, we always go lengths to tailor your Nature Connectedness experience of choice to your group’s exact needs and are happy to adjust the experience and themes to fit your program.

National Park Experiences

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SNAP is a photo safari all about making time stand still, long enough for us to feel our connection to our surroundings. As we slowly move through the beautiful National Park nature, we spend time noticing all the little details we might normally pass on our fast paced walk through the landscape.

We use smartphones as our cameras, and you are prompted to look for specific things, views or items along our photo safari hike. During a SNAP experience we may focus on the crown pedals of a flower, the fresh raindrops of water, or the light and shadows occurring with clouds blocking the sun on a windy day.

When seeing through your lens, you connect to your motive in a deep and amazing manner. Along with this, you get to notice how weather phenomena affect your perception of landscapes, mood and focal points. Your focus is sharpened and your connection to all the little details nature has to offer is awakened.

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DAWN is a calm quiet hike starting when night is just about to turn to day. We hike towards the light. While walking we witness the darkness and the mood of the night transform into a choir of birds, rays of sunlight breaking through branches, leaves or clouds. DAWN is al about celebratig the many new beginnings we are all given. While we walk towards the early sun rays, we can start to notice how the outer nature and it’s transformations, reflects our inner nature.

Finishing off with a lovely pop-up surprise breakfast snack or full buffet on the beach, in a field, or in one of our gorgeous outdoor venues it a true treat that often stays in your memories for good. 

DAWN

AURORA is an amazing, yet rare, experience of seeing the Northern Lights dance across the night sky.

As experienced Arctic tourism professionals we are thrilled that 2024 has shown to be the most active Solar storm year in decades, meaning that even Denmark and the southern parts of the Nordic countries have great possibilities for hunting and viewing Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis.

We set out for the darkest least light polluted places with great visibility spots. We dress up and prepare to stay for a while to enjoy the show.

Our experiences guide staff informs and educates you on the aurora phenomenon, so you know what to look for in the night sky, and as well leave AURORA more knowledgeable.

AURORA

WADE is an immersive oceanic adventure that invites you to experience the majesty of the sea in a unique and personal way. You get to put on wetsuits or waders and walk into the ocean, feeling the cool water embrace you as you explore the intertidal zone. This sensory wade fosters a deep connection with nature, heightening your awareness and appreciation for the marine environment by being in the midst of it. We get to experience fish, or even often small Nise dolphins, or seal if we are lucky-.

WADE is about experiencing the ocean in its raw beauty, evoking both a sense of awe and tranquility. Our team is always nearby, ready to assist with any needs or provide additional insights about the marine environment and the concept of Nature Connectedness.

WADE

LET GO is a transformative nature experience designed to help you connect with your inner self and release what no longer serves you. Through guided activities and mindful engagement with the natural environment, you will explore feelings, behavioral patterns, or memories that you wish to let go of.

Drawing on our experiences and tools as Nature Based Psychotherapists and using nature gestalts, such as creating symbolic representations of what you want to release, you will engage in a powerful process of physical and emotional release. This might involve burning your gestalt in a fire, throwing it into the water, or other symbolic acts of letting go.

LET GO offers a profound opportunity for personal and professional growth and renewal, and can be facilitated on both an individual and a collegial collective level. LET GO can be used as a corporate supervision session.

LET GO

FLOW is a deep sensory nature experience of floating in the ocean. You get to experience being held and supported by the surrounding ocean, and can – for a while – rely on the ocean to carry some of your daily burdens. The experience of Nature Connectedness is very profound in FLOW – and you will be connecting to your surroundings on both a cognitive and embodied level.

FLOW

DINE is our luxury dining experience in natural outdoor spaces. Our sole purpose with DINE is to redefine your concept of luxury, showing you that dining out, may as well be fine dining in the outdoors, and that fancy restaurants is a concept you create – wherever needed.

In groups you prepare, and cook a small part of the co-created gourmet meal over the bon-fire. When done, you arrange your food nicely, and prepare your presentation of it, to invite your fellow DINE chefs to enjoy your dish with delight.

DINE

BLADE is an invigorating paddling adventure that allows you to connect deeply with nature as you glide across the water surface in a kayak or canoe.

BLADE is about experiencing the closeness to water, more than about the distance or experience of overcoming an element. Feeling the rhythm of your paddle blade slicing through the water is a meditative experience once you get the hang of it, and the sensation of being one with the water element you paddle awakens an experience of connectedness with the element and surround nature that is truly special.

We offer BLADE in suitable weather conditions ensuring great experiences for all. Our guide staff are certified instructors and outdoor recreation professionals, ready to help you get going and ensure your safety during the experience.

BLADE

BELOW is an exhilarating underwater experience that invites you to dive into the ocean’s depths and explore its hidden treasures. Swim below the surface and waves as you search for flounders, clams and just witness marine life up close.

BELOW is an experience designed to foster a deep connection with the underwater world, offering a unique blend of excitement and tranquility. You will get to engage all your senses as you glide through the water, experiencing the awe-inspiring beauty and diversity of the ocean.

In our BELOW experience you will experience a sensory embodied immersion while also learning more about the marine ecosystem, known to cause appreciation and advocacy for a healthy ocean environment.

BELOW

FIRE is a co-creating taste experience focusing on connecting with our surroundings through connecting with nature through the food we eat. Using only fresh seasonal local groceries from our National Park Partner colleagues, we ensure that nothing has traveled far, and that everything we serve is fresh out of the ground, down from the branch, out of the ocean or field. In smaller groups you prepare a multi course meal and aesthetically arrange this on the beautiful buffet table we co-create, as we know that cooking for fellow humans is always a great way of showing compassion.

FIRE

LISTEN is a captivating storytelling experience that brings you closer to nature and human connection through the ancient art of storytelling around a bon-fire. Through our, your own or our ancestral or indigenous inspired storytelling we immerse tales of folklore, culture, history, and personal adventure. We encourage guests to share their own stories, fostering a co-creative atmosphere. By sharing and creating a sense of wonder, empathy, and community, we form compassion for both our surroundings and each other – we are more alike than we sometimes think. You can LISTEN to tales of the National Park heritage, while enjoying the warmth of the fire, the smell and sound of crackling wood, while almost in your thoughts transported to different times and places.

You are served light snacks and warm drinks during the event.

LISTEN

GOODNIGHT is a nature-connecting, sensory, slow and silent walk in the dark.When human vision is reduced due to the dark surroundings, your other senses are amplified and you get to experience nature in ways you rarely do.At the same time, walking slowly makes you actively sense and notice the surfaces, location and proximity of other species — human or more than human — not just with your mind, but with your body.In addition, slow walking releases soothing hormones, which give you an inner peace and tranquility that few people give themselves before bedtime.

We walk in a group, but are silent.Your guide can give brief instructions and prompts along the way.The walking distance varies, is usually very short and is always adapted to both group and location.

GOODNIGHT

ART is our country ART experience.With the aim of creating art with natural materials (placed or moving), we embark on a collecting adventure.You are going to spend a long time collecting the perfect natural objects and materials that speak to you in a certain way.

Once you have all your materials, you will have time for the contemplative process of building your personal Land Art work.Building one's artwork, balancing stones, matching colors, reflecting on memories and reasons for the meaning one places in each element is a deep and extremely sensitive process.

Sensory experiences, experiences of beauty and meaning are known avenues to deepen the connection between man and nature, and when we have finished creating, we invite other participants to see our masterpieces, who then also connect us with each other.

CALM is a facilitated nap in nature.It is preceded by a quiet walk focusing on the depths of you and the close, gentle nature experiences around you, and is followed by a guided meditation or theta-healing session that brings your focus away from your thoughts and into your body.Then you get to relax or take a nap in your made-up bed — on reindeer skins, under your cozy blanket and even better: under the sky, the crowns or

We give away the feeling of tranquility as it is a (nature) experience on the verge of extinction — humans very rarely take the time for peace and quiet as we have transitioned to Human-doings, always available, engrossed in our screens, striving to achieve results in all our activities.Getting in touch with nature while resting our mind and body gives us — or you — the biggest head start into a new find awareness of the importance of rest, restoration of attention and balanced heart rate variability, which you need on a frequent basis.

CALMNESS

In Denmark, Christmas lunch is a tradition. We meet, we bond over conversation, quality food, fun games and Christmas atmosphere.With CHRISTMAS we facilitate a traditional festive gathering in an unconventional way.We celebrate togetherness, the short days, the long nights and the time to regenerate. By connecting with each other in a natural setting, the tradition is kept alive in a less common but more memorable way — and sometimes it even becomes your new tradition.We know that, because we see more and more of you returning to get “the same procedure as last years”... And we love it!

In CHRISTMAS, you create a meal together with and for your group.In smaller groups, you each prepare part of the meal for each other.Orchestrated and carefully planned by us in advance.Maybe collaborative teams cook for each other, maybe you want to let colleagues mingle in new relationships with a common task of cooking one.

CHRISTMAS

CLOUDS in the sky hold many memories for most people.They hold much mystery, much wisdom and power and, historically, the ability to foresee and predict the future.

CLOUD is our calm, calming dream workshop where you are allowed to dream away through a facilitated meditation while becoming aware of the importance of a balanced relationship between man and nature. We spend enough time looking at the cloud to ensure that you feel the everyday stresses of adult life leaving you and that calm is taking over.

CLOUDS

Imagining the transformation from a beech branch to a spoon or a bundle of straws to a rope changes the way of experiencing nature.Everything becomes an object of materialism, and everything in your environment acquires multiple purposes — you are invited to understand the true existence and purpose of species, and at the same time your creativity is awakened to transform the natural object into something else.

CRAFT is all about awakening the inherent fascination in you.We facilitate a craft workshop where you have sufficient time to understand the process and work with your chosen craft.

Our guide staff provides ideas, practical help and instructions for using various tools and techniques.

CRAFT

CYCLE is our full 24 hour accommodation in one of our national parks. We hike, we camp, we explore and enjoy quiet moments in natural areas.

By spending a full day in nature, you get the feeling of becoming one with it. You adapt your inner needs and patterns to the patterns and systems of nature.

Actively noticing natural circular processes inspires people to lead lifestyles that resemble nature's solutions more, leading to greater degrees of sustainable and regenerative thinking and being.

Our guide staff facilitates experiences of setting up camp and building our home for the next 24 hours in nature, along with experiences of just being without tasks or obligations.

CYCLE

FORAGE is our “classic” collecting experience.We go on a short hike in a selected national park habitat and collect edible natural objects as in the ancient cultures.We know the best places and are always connected with the seasons, what they have to offer and when not to collect certain gifts from nature to preserve the sustainability of the species.

Our guide staff is knowledgeable about your finds, and we bring various exploration equipment and books on species determination to learn about and be confident about our finds.

FORAGE

HANG is our hammock experience.Imagine that you just sit back for a while and enjoy the beautiful national park landscape, soundscapes and scents.Lying in a hammock allows you to get off the ground for a moment.An experience that busy human life often does not allow us when we are awake.

After a short hike to our chosen relaxation spot, you'll be instructed to set up your hammocks. Our hammocks offer the option to be supported while hanging yet still be open to your surroundings, or you can choose to wrap yourself in a cocoon-like cozy experience of you-time and undisturbed relaxation.

Snacks and drinks are always provided. When leaving for the hike, the group agrees whether the experience should have the main focus on comfort or the social side, and you decide whether you want to cook a social snack meal or just enjoy a moment of self-compassion for yourself in your hammock.

HANGAR

HOT AIR is a hot air balloon flight over beautiful national park nature combined with an introduction to Nature Connectedness through a very bodily experience of flying over the landscape that enables new perspectives and perceptions of our belonging and existence on planet Earth.

As big supporters of amazing, transformative nature experiences, we have allied with the best Danish hot air balloonists to give you experiences with perspective and tranquility all at once.

Choosing a morning flight that concludes with breakfast where we land is nothing short of magical -- think about it before you book your flight.

HOT AIR

LINE is a sensory experience where you open yourself to the nature around you and within you through your senses.

You get to spend time building your own individual timeline.The timeline can symbolize a particular event, certain relationships, or your entire life.Building a timeline can be a very personal experience, and doing so with natural materials creates a neural shortcut to what we perceive as meaningful and valuable in our life course.

The entire timeline experience is highly dynamic in its duration. Our guide staff can facilitate the one-hour experience, or you can choose to immerse yourself fully in your surroundings and make LINE a Nature Connectedness experience you'll never forget by deciding on the full 24-hour experience.

LINE

NIGHT OWL is a co-creating taste experience focused on connecting us to our surroundings by connecting us to nature through the food we eat.NightAWS can be for both adults and young children.Taking the family to this event often opens up new potential in relationships, and children are given the opportunity to show how brave and skilled they are at handling raw food, fire and darkness.

Using only seasonal fresh local produce from our national park partner colleagues, we ensure that nothing has travelled far and that everything we serve is fresh from the ground, from the branch, from the sea or from the field.In smaller family-based groups, you prepare a multi-course meal and arrange it aesthetically on the beautiful buffet table that we help to create, as we know that always cooking for one's fellow human beings is a good way to show compassion.

NIGHT-OWL

Our Picnic experiences are a mix of a good old fashioned outdoor pampering and a lecture on a topic of your choice from the Nature Connectedness Research Field.Compassion for both the meal we enjoy and the people we enjoy it with is our top priority during our Picnic experiences.We do our best to ensure that your picnic meals consist of items of groceries and dishes that resemble our surrounding national park, season and local species.We invite you to enjoy fresh food, to get in touch with it and the fellows on it specific place that grew and harvested it so we can enjoy the outdoor meal together.

PICNICS

SIT is a very special experience of comfort, community and cohesion at the same time.

Our Nature Connectedness experience SIT is a sit-spot experience where you are in your own company in the dark. We facilitate an introduction to urban man's relationship with inner and outer darkness, and together we embark on a hike through a dark natural area, often a forest.One by one, you will be dropped off at your own seating areas on the route as the group continues.

Even if you spend the majority of time on this experience in peace, the sense of belonging known to promote Nature Connectedness is extremely profound, both in terms of your surrounding nature, but also in terms of your connection to the fellow human beings sitting in their seats around you in the distance.

Our guide continues the circular route, picking you up one by one as you quietly join the line of walkers passing by.

TALE is our “classic” guided interpretive tour with historical, cultural or environmental knowledge sharing from the national park area.

As we walk through the landscapes, our guide staff enriches the hike with various tales and facts from the area.Both the stories of the present and the past are interpreted.In some places, the future plans for the area are also discussed on Tale hikes.

The themes of Tale experiences vary greatly depending on geography and choice of content, and how many times you've wandered with us before, but they always include awareness of nature connections.

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Stargazing is an almost magical experience.Nothing connects you more by putting you into a larger context, like a tiny part of the whole we call our universe.

If one gives oneself ample time, seeks areas with minimal or no light pollution, and adds new levels to the experience of the night sky, this experience often leaves participants in awe and inner calm.

STAR is, of course, about seeing and enjoying the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere, but it's also about learning more about it.With the help of storytelling and interpretation from our guides, the sky comes alive and connects you to your surroundings, your ancestors and yourself on a new and deeper level.

STAR

SWAY is one of our signature Nature Connectedness experiences.In SWAY, you climb big, old, amazing trees in our national parks, but where you would normally stay to get a quick view and rappel back down, you get to stay.Linger up there.All day and night.

The purpose of SWAY is to give you the experience of being a tree.We dress up and take everything we need to the treetops. Here we build ourselves a sleeping place and stay up here overnight — in our climbing equipment.

Once our groups have decided to delve into the experience of becoming one with the tree that hosts them tonight, they have begun their journey of transformation towards a deeper connection, inward and outward.

SWAY

SWING is one of the only slightly more action-packed experiences in the Elements catalog.Even so, SWING can still be a truly natural experience.Imagine that you are a leaf preparing to let go of the branch that has stuck with you for the past months, and then suddenly you are ready and let go, and then fly through the air and sense everything around you.

With professional climbing equipment, we build a giant swing in the forest.As a co-creating collaborative project, we will hoist you into the air, from where you will get a beautiful view of the national park landscape.In winter, you can see both the near and the very distant surroundings.

When you're done enjoying the view, get ready to let go and take a giant swing under the tree crowns.This experience is the closest you'll get to flying outside an aeroplane. You'll be well instructed and we'll make sure all participants have a great experience.

SWING

When you participate in a TOP experience, you get to climb Denmark's national trees in our most beautiful places.We focus on getting in touch with the trees and feeling how they are affected by wind and rain, and how everything is different in the different seasons. Are you immersed in our cozy nest of newly emerged spring leaves, or are you able to feel and follow the sway of the tree trunk in autumn wind while getting an overview of the entire forest?

As a nation with no access to mountains, tree climbing is an excellent counterpart to mountaineering and the thrill of being one with a stunning piece of nature. You can choose to climb as high as you want and our skilled instructors are here to help you and ensure you have a great, safe and amazing experience.

WALK is an immersive walking experience designed to deepen your connection with nature and increase your sensory awareness.As you wander through the national park, you'll be encouraged to step off the beaten path, walk on uneven surfaces, and engage fully with your surroundings.Feel the ground and even the ground beneath your feet, listen to the sounds around you, and breathe.

WALK invites you to slow down, observe and reflect, creating a lasting bond with the natural world, as our central connection to nature is also at the heart of what you experience on a WALK.

WALK

WING is our “classic” ornithologist experience.

We know all the great places and seasonal blessings of breeding birds, passers-by and hatching times, and at WING we respectfully take you along to experience them.

We wander through the countryside and settle down in suitable places for a quiet experience.The distance varies by appointment.