Day 1
Arrival at Kalvefall during the day. You will be arriving with train to Tranås Station and there catch a bus towards Österbymo where we will pick you up at the bus stop in Sund. When you come to our place you have time to get acquainted with the surroundings, the other riders, the horses and your room.
Leave information on your arrival by telephone/fax or E-mail. If you come by car, maps and road descriptions are available on our Webpage www.sagaadventures.com
Lunch and dinner will be served in coordination with when guests are arriving. In the evening our farm house pub is open, like every night.

Day 2
After breakfast we have a thorough briefing about how we handle and ride our horses. Our horses are trained and handled with Natural Horsemanship as a basis. This means that we base our training and handling of horses on their natural way of communicating and reacting. We use release of preassure in all riding and handling of our horses. During these sessions we also show some of our training methods. Appreciated is the part when we show how to make a horse accept a noisy tarp so it is quite safe to put raincoats on while still in the saddle. Or we can show when we ride in full gallop with a rain poncho whipping about.
After having lunch it is time to go get the horses, but before mounting you will get the chance to try some of the things we have been doing in the morning. We want everyone to be in control of their horse from the ground with lateral movements, backing, stopping, and giving both head and neck without resistance. This is fun and fairly easy to do, and above all you present yourself as the leader of the horse.
After this, we mount at the arena and you get the chance to show the horse your leadership also on the back of the horse. Then as we ride into the forest we have one simple security rule. We do not trot until everybody has full control of the horse at a walk. We do not canter until everybody has full control of the horse at a trot. And do not worry, as there is plenty of time to both trot and gallop, we just want everybody to feel secure so we can enjoy the beautiful surroundings.

Day 3
Today we ride a long tour through the forest to a base camp by the lake that is the source of the river Stångån. Everybody can join in when we make a wilderness fiesta dinner. Among other things we cook fish the same way they did during the Stone Age, in a hole in the ground. Bread is baked over the fire and dessert will be flambéed with the flames reaching high in the air. The light Swedish summer night is so inviting and makes you never want to go to sleep. In case the weather is bad, we will eat indoors in our Sámi tepee. We spend the night sleeping in the tepee in sleeping bags on reindeer skins, with the fire glowing in the middle of the tepee.

Day 4
Now that we have gotten to know our horses better, maybe even changing horse to get the best one for us, and we can now ride long, rocking canters. On our way beck towards the farm, we have lunch by the ruins of an old farmstead. It is quite a special place and you can almost hear the old inhabitants going about their business, even though nobody has lived here for a hundred years.
Farwell dinner is served in the farm house pub.

Day 5
Today we ride a long tour through the forest to a base camp by the lake that is the source of the river Stångån. Everybody can join in when we make a wilderness fiesta dinner. Among other things we cook fish the same way they did during the Stone Age, in a hole in the ground. Bread is baked over the fire and dessert will be flambéed with the flames reaching high in the air. The light Swedish summer night is so inviting and makes you never want to go to sleep. In case the weather is bad, we will eat indoors in our Sámi tepee. We spend the night sleeping in the tepee in sleeping bags on reindeer skins, with the fire glowing in the middle of the tepee.

Day 6
Now that we have gotten to know our horses better, maybe even changing horse to get the best one for us, and we can now ride long, rocking canters. On our way beck towards the farm, we have lunch by the ruins of an old farmstead. It is quite a special place and you can almost hear the old inhabitants going about their business, even though nobody has lived here for a hundred years.
Farwell dinner is served in the farm house pub.

Day 7
This is the day of departure. Lunch will of course be served those who leave later in the day.

Booking code SLR7 06:1