Usually
your plans are spontaneously fashioned and executed within next four days, when
you are short on time and don’t have a lavish budget to set up your relaxed
vacation. This calls for urgent pointers to be listed on your notepad, and used
to untangle the process, so that you do not miss out on anything. You deserve a
peaceful and fun vacation after slogging onto your desks/books, for months; and
if you do not do plan it up, it leads to several disappointments. We don’t wish
you to go on a vacation, which has more of “Shit! We should have done this”
instead of “Woohoo! And Yay! Told you.”
You
might have several ideas in mind, when you think of going to beaches and
different back-end thought process when you have desires of visiting a hill
station, for your vacation. Following are few pointers, which will help you to
collect similar ideas, towards your way of travelling to your destination,
packing stuff and what to carry:
1)
Travel Smart:
We all know, we should travel light, but are we being
smart; simultaneously? It is an emerging need to know what we have in our
luggage, is enough to survive, in those days of vacation. From clothes to
skin-protective lotions, appropriate footwear, chargers and different chords
to compass and guide book, keeping
emergency numbers handy, updating and making yourself aware about the locations
before visiting, marking landmarks on your map – to save your time and cost,
first-aid and bandages, etc.
2)
Transportation:
Your sudden trips will never include places, beyond
400kms, away from your current location. That gives you roadways and railways,
as options, to travel. Generally, it is hard to book railway tickets, on such
short notice and for roadways, all you can think of is renting cars or buy fuel
for your own ones. How about you travel comfortably and save cost? Book
travelers, buses or caravans, to travel, and divide the cost equally. This adds
up to fun and comfort, altogether.
3)
Make It Different
– Ditch Hotels!
Maximizing your comfort by staying in hotels andresorts and relaxing your saturated way of living? Isn’t it ironic for people
to call their trips to mountains, adventurous, while staying at hotels and
resting their heads on comforting pillows? Ditch hotels/resorts, do not let
them spoil your further and design your way to leisure. You have limited number
of days for this vacation, and you choose to stay indoors, in ambient lighting,
eating proper food, etc – which you usually do, like every day? Book camps/motels/
ashrams, etc; this helps in enjoying the trip, out of your comfort zone, and
networking throughout.
4)
Do Not Go For Travel
Agents/Guide:
It kills your spirit, who wants to explore beyond time
limits, and desire to experiment. Do not let the agents and guide decide good
or bad for you; if you are on this trip, only you should decide, what can be
done with your money involved. Especially, when they are handling a large group
of people, they tend to be more protective, cutting out on the fun part! They
have already explored the positivity of nature and timed your stay, what is
your work then? What are you there for – to watch and witness the beauty? You
can do that on your laptops too!
5)
Don’t Flash Your Tourist-Card,
Become A Local:
You know what and how you are supposed to carry your
#travelmood around, what are you waiting for? Indulge yourself into the
cuisines and colors of that city, and call it your own! Don’t be a tourist and
visit just the monuments/famous places in the name of vacation, get inside
those narrow streets to taste the real essence of your destination – that is
how you travel around and know the city. Beyond what some famous human did at
that place; know what the locals are upto, dress/eat like them, buy what you think
is unique, walk/ride but ditch cars (PLEASE), etc. Just become one of them!
Those
lavish restaurants and comfortable beddings shall never be the goals, of your
vacation. Try getting into those shoes, which have roamed around the city and
are better guides to you, than your regular agents. Ditch plenty of things, in
number of ways, and stop commercializing your ways of fun. Be pure and natural,
feel and observe – instead of capturing and getting your fancy cover pictures,
make your presence count in present. Pack your bags ‘smartly’, get all your
necessities (which do not include your make up or portable power banks),
collect your thoughts in mind and persons accompanying you, get your
#travelmood ON and vanish!
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