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6 Reasons To Encourage Your Child To Go On Summer Trekking

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Children Trekking Offroad Camps Kasmoli Rishikesh

Children Trekking 

Saurabh had always been a quiet child. For as long as his mother could remember, he preferred indoors – reading books, playing on smartphone, watching TV and sleeping on holidays defined his style. He did like to step outside once a while and went for occasional rounds on cycle with friends – and that’s it – that was how his life was defined during holidays. When his mother called us with the request to expose her child to the world of trekking and take him to the mountains see life there, we just knew what it would take for him to come out of his shell and explore nature. So two trekking trips and lots of camping later, Saurabh became a different person altogether. His curiosity to know about things grew, and he started taking interest in sports and other recreational activities. So what is it that makes a child undergo a huge change in their outlook when the trek? We give you 10 reasons that we could think of. Feel free to add your own:

  1. Trekking is not just walking; it’s an experience of being close to nature. It is a treat to your senses.
  2. Trekking allows your child to develop his or her sense of inquisitiveness and explore what they have only read in books. Imagine being standing on a mountain of Himalayan range dentist read about it in your book or look at the photograph somewhere. Or imagine discovering migratory birds right at the place where they make their nests and give birth to their offspring.
  3. Trekking is not just an activity; it’s a full body workout. Your child gets to feel the strength of his or her own body and become responsible for own wellbeing.
  4. Sleeping in a tent or walking along new faces, your child gets time to bond and learn the art of communication. Without the interruptions of phone, television; it is sometimes a very dear chance to tell and hear more from each other.
  5. On trekking, children get to know more about not just their surroundings, but also about building fire, meal preparation, cooking, and most importantly learn how to get by without screens.
  6. Fresh air and open sky give time to the children be amazed with stars above and the tranquility of serene atmosphere and clean air around them.
Pine Forest Offroad Camps Kasmoli Rishikesh Summer Camp

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Read this post to know Top 10 Camping Activities for Kids, with real life examples. Here is another post on Trekking in Rishikesh about how you can plan a day out to let your children enjoy from trekking.

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!

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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