I was trying to learn more about glamping resorts all around the world, so, first of all I started to search woith the help of my browser “glamping” and “glampsite”, but I was a bit disappointed, many of the resorts that are using this words in their name have nothing to do with tents. Why with tents?, well, we shouldn’t forget the origin of the word, a combination of glamour and camping.
We all know that traditional camping concept is not glamorous at all for many reasons, if we talk about free camping usually we first think in a tent of “canadian” type: a gabled roof and two side walls not very tall, in general we remember when going camping was something that required spend te time in the tent bent like a japanese waving. In a tent like that it was not possible to stand upright, no very glamorous, and the space in a tent where we slept like canned sardines wasn’t either glamorous at all.
If we think about a campsite we will soon have in mind a site plenty of tents very close each to others and having to share bathrooms wiyh many other people. well, not much glamour really.
Then, when we watched once again one of those movies, Lawrence of Arabia, Out Africa..., most of us dreamt on going camping anywhere in a big tent like those that appeared on the screen, that was really glamorous!, even ome smaller than the one of Prince Faisal would be glamorous enough.
The glamping is a concept that has come to stay has everything that it is good of a tent but not the bad part of camping and also, in many cases what a hotel room could offer, but yes I believe that glamping has sense when it is about tents not wooden cabins, small apartments in the wild or concrete constructions inside nature, I wouldn’t call that glamping.
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