Earth Day, Our Way

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There’s something about Kasmoli that makes you stop and take notice – mountains, trees, people – and a bit if nature in whatever you do!

We’ve been coming here for three years now, but the village still looks new. Hilly ways, fresh smell of ground, changing colours of tree leaves  – there’s so much to do and see here that every trip gets carried over from a weekend getaway to weekday vacations. Time has a meaning here. It doesn’t simply run, it adds value to our lives.

So when we get up in the morning with clouds hovering over our heads like these, we get excited. Weather at Kasmoli

5:00 am looks like the time when the mountains start looking inviting again. And as you get up, there’s fresh air and sunrise wait for you around the corner. At one side in the far left corner, you see Badrinath peaks turning golden as the sun’s rays get spread on to the snow-capped peaks. Clouds change colour too, as they start to turn orange, yellow, white and finally blue after different shades of grey.

Offroacamps_Morning Sun

Inhale Courage Exhale Fear

We are the people with small means, and even smaller ambitions. Jazziness doesn’t excite us, but roses do. Here are the latest camping pics from our garden:

Flowers at Camp Kasmoli

Kasmoli Camps

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Kasmoli Village Camps (5)

Offroad Camps as a camping destination is accessible via a 7 km road that cuts from NH 34 near Agarkhal. For the adventurous individuals who seek to explore more than just the camping places, it can be trekked to from the road. The route is scenic, and you can expect to run into some pretty looking animals like the deer, wild hens or baby lambs. It has many exceedingly beautiful spots in between, that let you get away from people even before your camping retreat begins. The feeling of being the only people around a place is something that everyone should get at least once in a life time.

Work day at camps

A typical work day at camps

So this Earth Day, we explored the freedom of camping – freedom not just from the stress of Delhi, but also from a lifestyle that keeps us constantly running. It’s amazing how little you need from a place to live and be comfortable. Offroad Camps is that place for us. It reminds us every day that the very basic core of our living spirit needs to be free, adventurous and simple! That’s the message of Earth Day for us.

Women Travelling Groups

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So who all are ready to knock their socks off camping? Our special ladies are!

We just organized a women special camping event of three days, and got an amazing return. Special love from the solo women travellers who took on hiking to the trails, pond, and even played a volleyball match at the nearby football field. The camping trip had a lot of exploration – both outside via organic food, and inside through meditation.

Already in the camping near Delhi list of leading corporates, Offroad Camps is waiting to receive few more of you incredible beauties! From waking up with the sunrise and doing early morning yoga to devouring fresh-off-the-field organic cucumbers, our women campers enjoy what we do the best: We let the child in you explore the hidden love of nature! We have only limited photographs of these wonderful women campers who were seeking adventure trips in India, but hope they will be enough to show you all the love we shared!

Women Travellers, Offroad Camps, Kasmoli

Women Travellers, Offroad Camps, Kasmoli

Women Travellers at Offroad Camps Kasmoli

Women Travellers at Offroad Camps Kasmoli

Women Travellers at Offroad Camps Kasmoli

Thoughts of our solo women travellers who chose to us to seek adventure in India

Hearing directly from the women travellers just how much solo camping means to them keeps our gas running. Here are several notes from the solo women traveller community that defines what their time with us meant to them:

  • “It was difficult for me to even think about traveling solo, let alone camping in the Himalayas. But I feel blessed to have made that choice. Never before I feel so liberated, fresh and happy! And what more – my children (both of whom are in school) were so happy to see me smiling, that they made me sign a contract with them to go for some me-along time.” Sarika Tripathi
  • “To see my wife not to worry about us and enjoy with her friends was heart-warming. She has never done anything like this before, and I feel so contended over her decision to take these two days out for herself.” Suraj Bhanu Singh
  • “Offroad Camps means part of the family to me. Everything around it was so safe, serene – never had to worry about anything. The best part was that I got to make new friends – which was something of a challenge because I’ve always been an introvert kind of person. Loved it, definitely going back if I get the same group.” Charu Mittal
  • “Had organic fruits and vegetables, and lots of them. Nothing like eating healthy to stave off the guilt for stress that hectoc work schedule brings to you.” Nidhi Verma

Don’t Miss the Epic Summer Camping!

How often do you go for weekend Delhi getaways alone? This is your chance to try it once: solo women travellers can join in April and May’s Relax & Recharge Retreats. Summer fun, including hiking, adventure sports, rafting and much more. A weekend is just what you need to live!

Camping in India – When The Mountains Call

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There isn’t anything else in the world that excites me as much as traveling. While there are many places I’ve been to, mountains have a different all together meaning for me. They define who I am, and how petite my existence is! And so, when I came here at Offroad Camps, it was time to discover. High peaks, landscape beauty, and majestic pine trees – this place was surrounded by best of what you could get in nature. The tents opened right into the view of valley, and offered you an unbelievable view of sunrise from the bed. The vast camping had so many different types of flowers and trees, that the whole vibgyor could be seen.View From Offroad Camps, Kasmoli Built with the help of the locals, this camping place offered loads of camping activities too. Among other things, I got to enjoy relaxing yoga and meditation sessions in between the breaks that I got from discovering the local village culture. The food is organically grown and has a distinctive flavour. If you some in the right season to this place of camping near Delhi, you can find cucumbers, rajma, ginger, turmeric, pumpkins and lentils that are plucked right in front of you.Organic Food at Camp Offroad KasmoliCamping in India is picking up trend, and I am sure Offroad Camps has earned its position too. The camp’s location of proximity with both Rishikesh and Tehri lake makes it an attractive option to stay for those vacationing on a weekend. This blog recently published a list of camping activities for boys and girls, and if you are planning to travel with your young ones, I recommend reading it too once.

Offroad Camps, Kadmoli, Narender Nagar, Rishikesh

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Top 10 Camping Activities for Kids

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The days of camping with nature brings out the best in children. It makes them happy, light and stress-free . How can it not?  Travelling is something that comes naturally for us. We’ve been explorers for as long as we remember back in history. The excitement of camping at new places is just too amazing to be missed. But what do you do when you are going with your family or a group who needs to be engaged in different activities throughout their stay? Well, we here present to you 10 different camping activities that will make your camping near Delhi a wonderful, memorable experience.

And what’s more? We have divided each of them in different headings for you to choose your camping activities according to your group type:

Camping Activities for Girls

  1. Arts and Crafts: A classic camping activity for girls that opens up their creative side. In fact, crafting is loved so much around Europe that it’s called girl scouts’ favourite pastime. It’s a healthy game for kids to slow down, interact and build special items out of ordinary things. The most popular activities that young girls like to collaborate on are painting and decorative flower making.
  2. Build Outdoor Skills: Where else would those young adults learn how to tie knots and build fires if not at camping? Start with basics, tell them about tents, poles, sun shades, air mattresses, sleeping bags and add new words into their outdoor dictionary.

    Mountains

    Mountains

  3. Encourage Storytelling: Girls are born storytellers. They have just the right mix of emotion and expressions, and if taught a bit, can easily create interesting narratives. You can also add a bit of fun by making this a group activity – a girl can start the story with one line that sets the scenario. The second one can add characters, the next one can give them personality and son on. A good way to be creative and have fun.
  4. Organize Creative Writing Workshops: Camping is a great way to open your children’s minds to creativity in writing. This camping activity can be done once or over a period of time to help girls develop their own powers of expression, critical reading and thinking. We know a freelancer who can happily conduct it for you. You may contact her directly through her website – www.writingroutes.com
  5. Orient Interest in More Camping: Plan a series of camping activities that teach your young girls on how to use their sense of direction to know which way is right to hike on. Challenge them to study sun’s direction and match it with their compass to know how to find their way in case they ever lose their path in the wilderness.

Camping Activities for Boys

  1. Treasure Hunts: Young boys have so much energy that it sometimes gets difficult to manage them. Depending on your group size, you can organize half or full day treasure hunts in teams and get them going. Pick a theme (mystery, eggs, chocolates, history), plan your clues (you can brainstorm on the ideas with your friends or search online), strategize your route and start the hunt.
  2. Bonfires:  Of all the camping activities, bonfires are perhaps the most common, yet exciting ones. A bonfire gives warmth, and brings children closer to each other by the way of sharing stories and other interesting stuff. If your boys like, you can also teach them barbeque and add more colours to those long nights under the stars.

    Bonfire

    Bonfire

  3. Sky Watching: Star gazing has picked up momentum in recent past. You can use the clear sky at camping locations like Offroad to share your astronomical knowledge with your group. They can use common constellations to find the pole star and know which side is north, or watch the changing positions of the moon or see some planets with the naked eye.
  4. Martial Arts: So boys like to play a bit rough, huh! Well, if your group is something like this, you can also use our place to thing of a camping activity that teaches them a bit of martial arts. Clean air, top of the mountain and a great team – what more can someone ever ask for on camping?

    Martial Arts Training

    Martial Arts Training

  5. Cook Together: What better way to start the interest in cooking for your boys than camping? Try with small barbeque – teach them how to light it, how to put food stuff on rods and the average time that different food take to roast. You can also introduce them to soup, tea and coffee making to begin with.

So with this, we have come to an end of this post. If you haven’t read our previous on Enjoying the Nature Unspoilt, don’t forget to read and comment on it! Until next time… :)

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