Canadian Rockies seen through the painter’s eyes

A Tent in the Rockies

The Rocky Mountains of Canada, Canadian Rockies, or just The Rockies, are defined in the vacation guide produced by some locals and the national parks in Canada’s Rocky Mountains website as “a vast land – filled with inspiring scenery, wildlife, a multitude of recreational activities for all ages and a lot of unique opportunities that only the people who live in this area know about”.

This remote area for many of us could have remain undiscovered if John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) hadn’t painted his famous watercolor A Tent in the Rockies.

The traces of pencil can be discovered in the folds of the tent’s opening as Sargent used to lay out his overall compositions in many of his watercolors with careful pencil drawings.

The strong influence of his friend Claude Monet, the famous Impressionist French painter,  can be easily noticed in his brush in mixing colors and fresh beauty of a naturalism, lively mark-making, and a sense of immediacy of this nice painting. Sargent loved working “en plein air”, out of doors, as his friend and many others Impressionists did, trying to capture the fleeting moments of light and colors of nature.




Although born in Florence, CA, US, to wealthy American parents, he studied painting in France, where he enjoyed both critical acclaim and important patronage. He is considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation". He created roguhly 3,000 works mainly watercolors but also oil paintings.

He can be considered also as a precursor of modern tourism in the wild movement and modern glamping tourism trend.

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Happily not a forest fire but a scenical sunset

We can enjoy nature without harming it

One of the things I used to fear most while going out camping in the
wild was that a forest fire might occur. This is the reason because I
was always very aware and also enourage others to be. If I ever made
a camp fire I always did it in authorized places and I made sure that
the fire was completly extinguished before leaving the site even
pouring water over it till it was completely over and, of course,
leaving the place clean specially of any cristal bottle that could
easily set a fire when the sunbeams pass through it in a hot day
and a dry ambience.

Unfortunately I
have witnessed
several forest fires
along my life and
have seen how the
power of the
flames is really incredible and how a small fire can become a big
forest fire, while people have to be evcuated from a hospital or from
their homes without knowing if they are going to be able to return back or
if they will find only asses where their homes had been before. The
worst is the dark scenery after the fire has happened, the dead nature and
burnt trees, all that willdness that had been there for years or centuries
before, of course the fauna will take many years to return to live there
again in the best case or will never return.

Now it is not so easy to set a camp fire as it was twenty or thirty years before
and I understand that, because it is necessary that each one of us preserve
the nature in order to future generations can also enjoy it and the natural
balance is preserved.

I do not set camp fires any more, but I don’t mind. Now I go glamping
instead of going free camping. I have eliminated my own risk of starting
a forest fire. It is not only safer but more comfortable and it allows me
also to enjoy nature and discover remote places where I can enjoy
magnificient sunsets in the wild, lilke this one, being unconcerned
because I know this time is not a forest fire but a view offered by the
sun and the clouds at the end of a glamping day.

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7 key factors which define a luxury glamping tent

What a customer expects when buying a tent

My partner Emilio and me were a day in the office, more than 8 years ago, seated at a table with a blank paper on it and then started to think how our new tent should be.

We decided that the time had come for making a complete redesign of the ancient fashion tent concept.

First of all we tried to think as a normal user should do, what would be interesting and what not, what the tents in the market up to date didn’t have and why not. After a few months of a lot of reflexion, discussions, drafts and test pieces, we concluded that a user would expect from a tent same few and simple things, simple as a concept but, as we realized during next eigth years, what was not simple at all was to make them happend.

We conclude the user’s whising list would be something like is:

1) Easines of use: (easy transport and easy and quick assembly, easy opening to enter in and easy closing from inside or outside and minimum work to do, if any, for maintenance during either use or storage.

2) Comfortable: wide interior, luminous, views to the oudside, space enough to move around and for an adult to stand fully upright in most of its surface, no leakages under rain or after it.

3) Durable & robust: top quality materials for structure and fabrics, in order to reach a maximized lifespan; strong under adverse weather conditions, shape kept after a wind stroke, a hail storm or a snowfall.

4) Thermal isolation: reduced temperature in summer, warmer in winter, easy to heat, easy to cool, integrated systems in order to reduce visual impact.

5) Clean & safe: avoiding the mud, water, dust or sand to enter inside, easy to clean, free of insects or bugs, fresh air inside, no obstacles either inside (no poles in the middle of the cabin area) or around (no guy-lines to keep the tent shape or the fabrics tight).

6) Versatile: for semi/permanent or mobile use, adequate for any kind of terrain or soil, wide variety of sizes and accesories, easy to personalize.

7) Design: not feeling like the last row soldier inside his tent and being pride of its nice design in order to make nice pics and show off them on facebook, instagram or other social networks, a design that differentiates from any other in the market.

The truth is that while working in our tent project, that we called Ctents, we discovered that the high quality of the materials, the tons of hours of desing, the exquisite handcraft and very specilized team requiered made our tent not a simple one but a luxury tent, so we decided to focus in luxury glamping tent market where Ctents can be easily amortized, even so, we are ready to supply our tents for other uses where their extraordinary quality/price relationship is appreciated by the clients.

Along the incoming weeks I will discover some of the solutions we adopted in order to meet each of these client’s requirements.


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Going glamping may bring you close to nature, and to wild boars!

One more reason why I consider glamping

a relaxing activity

Yesterday I had the opportunity to observe very closely a family of wild boars. It was quite 

funny to see the squeakers trying to suck from their mother while she kept walking and the 

squeakers kept going after her as in a hunting chase where the wolves were the squeakers 

instead and the hunting piece their mum, not trying to eat at her this time but just her tasty milk.

I had a really good time in the company of my wife, her daughter and son in law and our two 

grandchildren that for sure were who most enjoyed the scene.

It is incredible how you can stay looking at them for so a long time, we could have spent 

hours there if the children wouldn’t get hungry. Probably the view of the squeakers finally 

reaching her tired mum who chose to lie down in order to allow her small herd to reach their 

prize, also made them hungry and we had to go back to our glamping tent where we all could 

rest and have our deserved dinner after our relaxing visual hunting day of wild videos
and photos.

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Do’s and don’ts in buying a luxury glamping tent

5 Tips for choosing the right luxury glamping tent

Is there any issue you should be specially aware when buying a luxury glamping tent for your glamping resort?

First impulse when you are thinking on starting a glamping business is to choose a tent design you like either becuase you have seen it in some glamping resort you stayed or because you have seen in a glamping magazine or in a website and it looks nice to you. Then you start to imagine how your future glampsite would look like; then you begin to look for suppliers, usually most popular ones and they easily convince you to save money and reduce the investment amount you are willing to spend, in order to make your business as much profitable as you can. But is this the right approach?

When you are planning to start a glamping business, to extend your current glampsite or to susbtitute your current not very comfortable glamping tents, you should consider something easy to say but difficult to reach, to have the customer needs on mind. What does a client need? first of all you cannot speak about luxury glamping if your tent present leakages when the rain falls, or if the tent is surrounded by dangerous obstacles as the guy-lines many tent have are. Also the tent should be protected against annoying visitors like insects or bugs with with mosquito nets in the holes and with a groundsheet that seals the inner room at bottom of the tent.

A client that is going to spend some holidays in a glamping tent would like to have an inner temperature smoother than outdoors, either in summer or in winter, something that is not really possible if the tent has not the right isolation system, of course the client would like to enjoy all that being able to stay upright inside the tent.

Remember “customer first”, think on customer and select a tent model that include all these features to ensure the users’ comfort. To invest the right money in customer satisfaction always pays off.

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Going glamping to a luxury hotel terrace?

The ultimate and most cool, going glamping in the center of the city

The latest trend followed by  Chicago’s, Denver’s, Los Angeles’, and other cities’ most luxury hotels is to diffrentiate their offer by including under sky terrace rooms in a glamping style where the traditional room has been substituted by a tent and the guest can experience an “urban glamping experience” on the most upper terrace of the hotel and enjoying the city skyline view under the stars. 

Glamping is a movement that arised in order to avoid the inconvinience of having to set up a tent when you want to enjoy nature while lodging in a comfortable tent, similar to those that ancient kings used to have or similar to those we have in mind when thinking about safaris in Africa. Luxury glamping resorts around the world have usually been placed at most attractive sites in order to offer guests a nice view and a calm stay.b Now these luxury hotels have found an innovative way of combining the best of the city with the best of glamping concept.

The hotels include with these kind of tent-rooms comfortable outer living rooms and special guest welcome packages as most expensive champaign brands.

These new urban glampings allow most luxuty hotels to make their terraces profitable and extend their offer with a new urban glamping concept only for their privileged customers who can afford it.

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