BACKPACKING ESSENTIALS: MUST-HAVE FEATURES IN TREKKING & HIKING BACKPACKS

Camping is living outdoors as a recreational activity. Trying to spend a day and night out there in the untamed nature is genuinely adventurous, thrilling, and an unforgettable experience. Treat your senses with fresh air to breathe, look at visually appealing stunning landscapes, touch and feel the ground, listen to the sounds of nature. Break yourself from the loud, busy city life and technologies. The experience will rejuvenate and nourish your body & mind, and the impact will last long, reflecting positivity in your life. You will go back with beautiful memories, feel refreshed, and energised to face daily life challenges with more confidence and wisdom.

Testing times like this pandemic outbreak has wreaked havoc in almost everyone's life around the world. When the world as a whole is suffering, and when you are left nowhere to go as a measure of social distancing, camping is a fantastic choice. You can go somewhere away from the hustle and bustle of your daily stressful life indoors and far out from the crowd to unwind yourself and to keep your sanity intact while ensuring your safety - a luxury vacation during hard times.

When you go camping, you get benefitted in many ways, and you will realise how much more is there to life than what you see and do every day.

Feel the ground beneath your feet, breathe the unpolluted air, watch a sunrise, a sunset, stargaze during the night, hug a tree, watch the beautiful creations from massive trees to tiny grasses and wildlife animals to small insects thriving in this world just like you. Enjoy this abundance of nature; it's a gift to you, a gift to humanity.

Whether you go camping alone, with family or friends, you are far away from your civilisation, day job, screen times, technology, home chores, and there is nothing to interrupt your pleasant day. It is what you need precisely to calm down, relax and unwind yourself.

When you go alone, you get time to self reflect, and you will discover more about yourself because you have all the time you want with no one around to disturb you. You get an excellent opportunity to spend quality time with your family and friends, helping grow relationships.

You can't help but remain active when you are out there in the wild. You will love to walk around, hike and explore the majestic beauty of nature as much as you could. As a result, you are giving your heart a great workout.

Camping is an opportunity to learn new skills like pitching a tent, learning life-saving knots, setting up campfires, cooking outdoors, fishing, fire-starting, first-aid and much more. Opportunities are enormous when you go camping.

Camp in a tent, cabin, caravan, glamping, seasonal pitch, campervan or motorhome. Go through the list of best camping sites near London – explore, choose and have a great vacation.

Eco Camp - Bring your tent or choose their pre-pitched bell tent. ECO Camp is a fantastic place spreading across 600 acres in East Sussex. Visit the beach, Battle Abbey and Hasting – a historical site of 1066. It's an easy drive from there.

The Nut Plat Retreat, Kent - A beautiful countryside for glamping, it will be a fantastic holiday home for you. Facilities like own kitchen, bathroom, fire pit and barbeque area are available here.

Welsummer Camping, Kent - Spend time in pretty gardens, a relaxing and beautiful countryside, you can pitch your tent, or you can choose from their fully-knitted canvas tents or handmade wooden cabins.

Badgells Wood Camping, Kent - Run in the woods, climb trees and toast marshmallow on the fire. It is a beautiful and magical place to immerse yourself—a quiet, off-grid place with acres of woodland to explore. Facilities like running water, hot showers, loos are available.

Still Acres Touring and Camping Park, Kent - Stay in a tent, caravan or motorhomes, well-maintained, and grounds are well manicured.

The Secret Campsite, East Sussex - Stay with nature in secret shelters. They provide facilities like solar-powered hot showers, flushing toilets, firewood, fridge, freezer, Wheelbarrows, electric car charging point.

Knepp Wildland Safaris, West Sussex - It is a perfect place for camping in the wild, in tress houses, and wildlife safaris.

Fontmills Farm Campsite, East Sussex – It is a beautiful 140-acre countryside for camping with local attractions.

Plush Tents Glamping, Sussex – A wonderful place to camp without letting go of life's luxuries

Embers Polesdon Lacey, Surrey – A 1400 acres of majestic beauty in the Surrey hills; this place is a hidden gem, and you have so much to explore while you camp on this National Trust Campsite.

Brook Farm – Enjoy the spectacular view, watch sunrise and sunset, and you have plenty of space to relax at Brook Farm Campsite.

Court Farm Campsite – This is a quiet and child-safe campsite set on 4 acres of land with stunning countryside views.

Petruth Paddocks – A fantastic campsite with many facilities you will need out there for a pleasant staying experience away from your hectic life.

Fallow Fields Camping - This is a beautiful and friendly campsite with wide-open spaces, well-maintained facilities, and many kids activities. You can shop for essentials and fires here.

Fen Farm Caravan and Camping Site - This is a campsite with award-winning facilities, and it is situated close to the beach and a country park.

Holden Farm Camping, Hampshire – This is a perfect destination for family camping surrounded by beautiful fields and farmlands. If you love stargazing, this place is for you.

Birds & Bees Campsite, Suffolk – This is a very spacious eco camping site, equally loved by adults and kids. The two-acre camping meadows has all the facilities to ensure a pleasant camping experience.

Little Ropers Woodland Camping, Suffolk – Walk through the Stour Valley and enjoy stunning views while you camp here. They assure a nearly wild camping experience.

The Orchard Campsite, Suffolk – Enjoying your time in the beautiful countryside beside a campfire, so serene to imagine, isn't it? That's the experience you get while camping here.

Alde Garden, Suffolk – This place is a perfect hideaway from your busy life. Experience the wilderness by walking through natural pathways, jungle showers, compost loo, covered field kitchen, and many other facilities are available for a pleasant camping experience.

Chalke Valley Camping, Wiltshire – This is a picturesque working farm spreading its area across an outstanding natural beauty. Enjoy the panoramic views, studded skies, toasting marshmallows in log fire.

Stowford Manor Farm, Wiltshire – This is a peaceful campsite surrounded by the River Frome. Craftspeople from farm conduct workshops here, and there is also a farm education centre here.

Barefoot Campsites, Oxfordshire – This is a lovely off-grid place for camping surrounded by beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. With the great view of the river Thames and fishing permit, this campsite is pure fun to spend with your family and friends.

When you go camping in a safe and controlled environment, it is all about benefits and pleasant experiences. If you go unprepared, your camping trip might become one of the most unpleasant experience you ever had. Planning it out thoroughly and going prepared with all necessary gears and amenities enables you to enjoy a great vacation out there in the wild.

At Altimus, we have great brands, including Nomad, Vaude and Nordisk, offering premium quality camping products for a hassle-free camping experience out there in nature.

Nomad creates great camping products, especially backpacks, sleeping bags, and sleeping mats travelled from the warmest areas in Africa to the coldest North Pole. For a pleasant camping experience, Nomad offers the world's best backpack and sleeping bags.

Vaude is a brand you will love because they offer products to take your kids along with you comfortably and safely with their range of premium quality child carriers. Enjoying your day outdoors, camping and enjoying the stunning beauty of nature along with your kids is a priceless experience.

Pitching your tent, Nordisk is the brand you need to explore. They have a premium range of tents and camping equipment that are highly functional and durable.

Happy Camping!