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HOW TRAVELLING SOLO IS BECOMING A TREND IN INDIA

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Few days years back I met a traveler Roshni. We had same interests, sat together and started talking.  I asked her what she was doing and if she is happy.  She worked in Corporate Communications and was looking for a break.  She wasn’t happy.   A monk who was listening to our conversation came to us said something which made an impact. He said “Travel. Meet people.  Experience cultures.  You may not  get wealthy, but it will make you happy.  When you have lived your life,  it will be your stories with vivid memories that will make you feel young.  Your travelling will make you feel young and full  every damn day.”

Off Road Camp Kasmoli Solo Traveller

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I thought about it. About the days of my young days.  It turns out that out of my 20 years of learning in school and college, what I remember most is cycling and the fun trips I had with my friends or family. These years are almost 2000 days of my life, limited to memories which made me happy. Everything else seems blur.

I remember every trip to grandparents and when our cousins visited us. Those were the experiences I shared with the people who made me feel loved.  My life is happy because of them.  I feel young because in my mind these vivid memories define the growing-up years. Time jumps from one happy memory to another.  It runs slow during the most threatening life experiences and fast when you are happy.  Travelling can take you there. Out from regular life to a place where you create memories for a lifetime. Travelling solo has always been a culture in foreign countries, but now it has come to India as well. People, youngsters & from every other age group,  love to spend time alone.

Tehri River, Uttarakhand

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Solo traveling lets you be the owner of your own itinerary. You can do things your way. You can wander off. Change your mind. Stay. Follow a new path. You don’t have to take your plans through anyone else’s preferences.  All you need to do is carefully balance your own needs and feelings.  It allows you to be selfish and not feel bad about it.

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Solo Travel Offroad Camps Kasmoli

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For those who us who have been around children, families, friends, and even pets, this is a luxury.  You can see your own potential, put your wits to a test, or challenge yourself to do something totally out of a blue. When you are totally alone, on your own, your personality comes into picture. You create your own rules, judge what to talk, how to speak or when not to engage. That exposure teaches something that most Indian families probably did not give liberty of – the freedom to choose kind of people we made friends with or ignored. They defined our choices for us and expected to follow. However, with travelling solo, all these conventions are getting challenged.
You now have the opportunity to learn something new all by yourself. It brings you closer to see best of humanity which is of strangers showing kindness in simple little ways that make our days happier!
Women Travellers at Offroad Camps Kasmoli

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Plan a camping, hiking & backpacking trip with Offroad Camps. Offroad Camp is a small nature camp located at Kasmoli, Uttarakhand which has the distinction of being a 100 % organic village. We are all about adventure in the outdoors, hiking, trekking, biking, eco-tourism, and being one with the nature. We are relatively new but are growing as we meet people along the way. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stay updated about latest from our camp and campaigns.

50 Best Travelling Quotes to Inspire You to Explore

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From young to old, travelling defines us as an individual. It takes us to unexplored lands, different cultures, and more than that tour place deep within our heart that makes us happy. Life without traveling is no life at all. If you feel that too, then you are someone with whom we will get along very well.

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Travel Quote

Sharing understood 50 travelling quotes that keeps us motivated to go beyond see the world. Hope these statements inspire you too to discover more travelling journeys in life:

  1. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”- Dr. Henry Link
  2. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”- Henry Ford
  3. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
    Mark Twain

    Travel Quote Mark Twain Offroad Camp Kasmoli

    Travel Quote Mark Twain Offroad Camp Kasmoli

  4. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
    ― Pico Iyer
  6. “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”
    ― Shane L. Koyczan
  7. “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
  8. ― Charlotte Eriksson
  9. “Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
    ― Ryū Murakami
  10. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain
  11. “To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen

    Travelling Quotes Offroad Camps Binsar

    Travelling Quotes Offroad Camps

  12. “There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.”
    ― Colum McCann
  13. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ”
    ― Lin Yutang
    “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
  14. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. “Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”
  16. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
    ― Agnes Repplier
  17. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!”
    ― Penelope Riley
  18. “The journey not the arrival matters.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
  19. “The journey is the destination.”
    ― Dan Eldon
  20. “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry”
    ― Jack Kerouac

    Travelling Quotes Offroad Camps Binsar

    Travelling Quotes Offroad Camps

  21. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
  22. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides
  23. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin
  24. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
  25. “Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.” – W. H. Auden
  26. “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor” – Seneca
  27. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel
  28. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro
  29. “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” – Lord Dunsany
  30. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

    Travelling Quotes Offroad Camps

    Travelling Quotes Offroad Camps

  31. “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
  32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
  33. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” -Tim Cahill
  34. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
  35. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli
  36. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -Suzanne Collins
  37. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”― Jack Kerouac

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    Travelling Quotes Offroad Camps

  38. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” -Roy M. Goodman
  39. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
  40. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
  41. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
  42. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
  43. “”Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
  44. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
  45. “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” – Amelia E. Barr
  46. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
  47. “Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine
  48. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
  49. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
  50. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul TherouxTravelling Quotes Offroad Camps Narender Nagar (3)

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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