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Eco Friendly Swedish Safari!
In a small clearing in a dense pine forest near one of the country's 100,000 or so lakes, the centre comprises 12 small log cabins with rudimentary furnishings.
Candle light dances on crude wooden walls and a basic wood-burning stove crackles in a corner, incinerating logs collected and chopped by the guests themselves.
There is barely room to stand upright in the small space between two narrow wooden beds covered by sheep skins, but at only 250 kronor (26 euros, 42 dollars) a night in absolute silence, no one complains.
Jonson organises a number of different excursions. In addition to the popular moose safari, which costs 1,795 kronor per person, there is a beaver spotting, owl sitings or a trek to "hear" howling wolves. There is no promise of seeing a wolf, however, as only 100 or so remain in the wild in Sweden and they are shy and rarely spotted.
Jonson takes out no more than eight people at a time. The moose group was half that number and four nationalities - British, French, Slovakian and Swedish, trekking past midnight, when dusk finally fell over this far-north forest where the summertime sun only sets for a few hours a night.
They heard no wolves but made out the silhouettes of four moose in the distance and caught a glimpse of two deer and a hare -- a slim catch for hours of tramping.
Thomas Atterdal, an amateur photographer based in Stockholm, had no regrets. "It was wonderful. It's an excursion into nature and if I had wanted to see the animals up close I would have gone to the zoo," he said.
Unlike the others in the group, Atterdal knew all about the Swedish eco-tourism label and deliberately chose Kolarbyn's wilderness tours because the firm is certified.
Among the criteria to be classified as a true eco-tour operator is a pedagogical approach to animal behaviour, including their sounds.
Loosely covering their nose and mouth with both hands, the tourists on the moose trek tried to imitate the calls of both the males, with their formidable antlers, and the females. This included a deep grunting sound believed to tell the king of the forest: "Do not move!"
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