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| | Orsa, Sweden. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com |
 | | Sitting aside Lake Orsasjön, a northerly adjunct of Lake Siljan, Orsa is right in the heart of Sweden's bear country: it's reckoned that there are a good few hundred brown bears roaming the dense forests around town, though few sightings are made, except by the hunters who cull the steadily increasing numbers. |
 | | Your best chance of seeing one is to visit the bear park, Orsa Grönklitt björnpark (mid-May to mid-June & mid-Aug to mid-Sept daily 10am–3pm, mid-Sept to mid-Oct Sat & Sun 10am–3pm; mid-June to mid-Aug daily 10am–6pm; www.orsa-gronklitt.se; 75kr), 13km outside town and reachable via twice-daily bus #118 from Mora, which stops at Orsa train station. |
 | | The bears here are not tamed or caged, but wander around the 900 square kilometres of the forested park at will; instead, it's the humans who are restricted, having to clamber up viewing towers and along covered-in walkways. |
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