Camping Picnic
Proven Tips To Turn Simple Picnics To Fun Packed Events
Do you feel like planning for a picnic with your family anytime soon? Have you treated your family to a picnic in the past? If the answers to these questions are yes, maybe it can help if we sort some things out. Family picnics are fun, exciting and great occasions for family bonding. But for some children, the teenaged ones in particular, are by nature hyperactive and may find family picnics boring. It is therefore important for you to consider adding more life to your next family picnic. Here are some steps You Can take.
Choosing your next picnic location carefully is one of the key means by which you can turn simple picnics into a day of fun and excitement. This should not be a problem because there certainly are lots of ideal picnic destinations you can choose from. Examples are public parks, beaches, resorts, or even your own backyard. The idea behind picnics is change of scenery. Anything that has a refreshing effect on the family can be a hit.
Choosing the menu or set of foods including snacks and drinks, again carefully, which your family may wish to bring along to the picnic site is another important consideration. Complaints about how the food tastes is almost always a sure spoiler. Your exciting day can turn drab instead. To prevent this, let your family, children included, have a say on what kind of foods would be best to bring to the picnic. This way you give your family members added stake in the activity, and therefore it should help enhance color and life to your family picnic.
Be reminded, however, that turning a simple picnic into a day of fun and excitement is more than just about great food and eating. As earlier suggested, you need to add life to it by engaging the family in various activities. Here are some examples. If you have in mind your backyard as your picnic site, you can set up volleyball or badminton nets. Prepare also for other fun outdoor games. If you are thinking of a picnic at any of the public parks, think also of facilities which your family can avail itself of. Your children would surely appreciate having a playground. You can also go fishing or swimming in case there are bodies of water in the public park.
Another way of turning a simple picnic into a fun and exciting day is inviting people to join you in addition to your immediate family members. Your neighbors or friends of your children may like the idea. Such a sense of inclusion often works to brighten up everybody, especially your children. On the other hand, may also wish to spend as much quality time as possible with your family, and so making your family picnic private would be best in that regard. In any case, the decision would be best left to you.
We just discussed some of many steps you may take to turn such simple occasions into a day full of fun and excitement. To repeat, do let your family members help you plan for that day. Let them share inputs on choosing your picnic site or location, choosing the food you should bring and eat, and also let them help you prepare the food itself.
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Tell me nice hatke picnic spot around mumbai?
I want a different picnic spot, which should have - fishing, trekking, swimming,Camp Fire etc,
please suggest zara hatke spot.
Do you want to prepare a projet on Picnic Spot to your college? Am I right.
If it is not so then try this Picnic spot
LONAVALA AND KHANDALA - Picnic Spots
Location: Situated On Mumbai-Pune Highway.
Lonavala is Known As: Jewel Of The Sahyadri, Houses: Many Lakes And Caves, Best Time To Visit: October To May Lonavala and Khandala are two charming little hill stations on the western slopes of the Sahyadris, 5-km apart, that straddle the Mumbai - Pune highway at an altitude of 625m, quite popular as health resorts. Blessed by nature in bounty, the hill resorts have a plethora of places of tourist attraction in Lonavala & Khandala ‘ beautiful hills, deep green valleys, huge lakes,
historic forts, waterfalls, etc.
Lonavala and Khandala offer breathtaking views of cascading waterfalls during the monsoon, and the surrounding mountains of the plains spread out to the horizon. A trip to these holiday resorts can be combined with that on the Karia, Bhaja, and Bedsa caves, which are very close to Lonavala.
Lonavala is located in the western part of the state of Maharashtra. It is set amongst the slopes of the Sahyadri mountain range. Also known as the “Jewel of The Sahyadri”, Lonavala is a place of this region where nature is present in its entire splendor. It has become famous because of nature’s gift of beautiful valleys, hills, milky waterfalls, lush greenery, and pleasant cool winds. Khandala being the smaller of the
two is relatively calmer and is the pride of the Sahyadri Mountains, It is endowed with abundant natural beauty and like Lonavala, Khandala also provides a popular getaway from the hustle and bustle of the cities of Mumbai and Pune.
The lush greenery of the mountains especially during the monsoons and the misty paths attract tourists like honeybees. The silver waterfalls amidst the lush greenery are extremely magical. Lonavala’s bazaar is filled with surprises. The beauty of this place is a refreshing experience.
ATTRACTIONS
There are numerous lakes around Lonavala and Khandala. Lakes such as Tugauli, Lonavala and Bhushi are worth a visit; so is the Valvan lake, which has a beautiful dam, a garden as well as a Pisiculture centre.
KARIA & BHAJA CAVES
Karia and Bhaja Caves, located in the hills at a distance of 1 1 -km
from Lonavala, are important places to visit. These rock-cut cave temples dating back to 2nd century BC are amongst the oldest and finest examples of Buddhist rock-cut temple art in India, belonging to the Hinayana sect of Buddhism. Adventure seekers can try their hand at rock climbing at the Duke’s Nose peak and other locations in the Karia hills near Lonavala.
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