@busdriver11 going alone! Well, doing Stockholm and overnight boat to Helsinki alone. Hoping to meet a college friend in Helsinki for Finland and Estonia and convince her to join for Norway too! After Helsinki, will fly to Oslo and meet a work friend that now lives in Germany to explore Norway. Will fly back from Bergen to Stockholm and then Stockholm to DC. Seems like you can fly one way around Scandinavia for $100 or less per ticket.
Basically I wanted to go to Norway, and found the flight the DC to Stockholm for $480. Then I looked into the feasibility of adding Finland / Estonia.
The only time I’ve used a tour company was to go from Cusco to Machu Picchu, because it was like $50 more than me buying all the necessary tickets (there were lots of them) myself and included a tour guide.
That said, I’ve seen those Victoria Falls to Cape Town ~3 week tours which look suuuuuuuuper cool!