Glamping reaches window displays!

In not much more than a decade glamping has traveled from connoisseurs' knowledge to shopping centers

Yesterday, while I was doing some shopping at a shopping center close to my home looking for some clothing I needed and promenading lazily after having finished to find what I needed when I was amazingly surprised by a window display where a detailed recreation of a glamping tent with a big bed inside and fully furnished complete with all the details you may need for having a comfortable stay.

The most relevant point for me was that is not just a window display of a medium sized local brand but. The display belongs to one of the most famous Spanish global fashion brands, with more than seven thousand shops distributed throughout ninety-six markets in the five continents and with shops in the main streets of the main cities of the world which has also diversified to home clothing small furniture ans home accessories.

For me there is only one meaning for the fact that glamping is arriving to window displays, particularly in an area, Majadahonda, and a country, Spain, where glamping is not a common choice for holidays although this kind of tourism is increasingly gaining a foothold , the meaning is not only that glamping has come to stay but that it is really a tourism tipology that, like a hungry bear would do, is going to take a big piece of the tourism cake.

That is good news for the glamping market as a whole and for the all the business involved in this market that is growing faster and faster with solid steps all around the world.

Is the summer really over?

Still time for glaping holidays

While the population at North Hemisphere is experiencing the days shortening, the heat  getting softer and the nights getting fresher, still there huge areas of our planet where either the summer is getting closer or is the natural state of climate as in the countries near the Equator, so for glamping lovers it is plenty of places to go on holidays. those who were not able to enjoy vacations during July or August have now the opportunity to travel to those sites where the summer still is waiting for us.

Be ready to find your site and don’t forget to be sure the glamping accomodation you choose has comfortable tents prepared for occasional inclement weather in order to enjoy a relaxing time as deserved without undesired inconviniences.

Travelling around in September guarantees you less populated tourist resorts where to enjoy     a pleasant stay.

What is easiness of use in a tent?

5 basic properties that makes a tent easy to use?

A tent can be used for several purposes, can be merely a temporary lodging at a campsite or in a free camping outing, a resting place in the middle of a race tour, a safari tour, a suite for the happy pair or their guest at a glamping wedding, a showroom during an event, a luxury tent for glamping purposes at a unique natural site, a place where replenish forces during a music festival, can be also used for professional teams while working in an emergency, military during an operation, sanitary personnel at a camp hospital, by refugees as temporary housing and so many other uses.

It doesn’t mind what purpose the tent is going to be used for, the vast majority of users expect that the tent has easiness of use, but, what this really means?

First of all, the tent should be easy to transport, with a size and weight of packages easily manageable at hand with the minimum amount of people as possible. But once the tent is in its place, this is not a major issue.

Second, the access into the tent and the way out of it is something easy, preferably it is not necessary to bow down in order to tresspass the door of the tent and it is possible to do it just walking.

Third, when closing the door either from inside or from outside the operation should be done easily and safely with a minimum effort and in a simple way.

Fourth, tent should be easy to maintain with the possibility of repairing any damage that the tent could have suffered on its fabrics, the possibility of incorporating spare parts if needed and the capacity of doing in a short sequence of basic and easy operations.

Fifth, tent should be easy to clean after the use in order to remove possible accumulations of mold, any spot, or just the marks of  dust after a rainfall.

Inexplicably, it is still very easy to find a huge variety of tents that have not been thought to comply this 5 basic properties that makes a tent easy to use.

A herd of zebras finally discovers where to drink water

Mobile safaris: a zebra's point of view of 

It is not always easy being a zebra, you have to travel long distances, sometimes during dry season you are not able to find any nourishment after many kilometers walking but this is not enough. It is also necessary to have some water and when the rivers and lakes dry you have to use your hoofs to scrabble the hard soil in order to find it.

Zebras drinking water by Beatriz Benítez Mateo-Sagasta

You shouldn’t be never alone though sometimes I’d prefer to, but keeping in large groups helps us to protect from predators, some friends of mine have gone to feed a herd of lions that was following us for three days, but if you are lucky enough not to fall into the jaws of one of them, then you can get the deserved prize.

Fortunately, this afternoon we found a pond where to drink some fresh water after an exhausting walking week, the herb on the savanna was mostly dry and it was not easy to find some fresh leaves, so we have had to settle for the bark of some acacia trees and, believe me, this is very hard to digest, so finally you need some water to deal with.

A group of tourists has been folowing us and other animals for the past three days on what they call “mobile safari”, a kind of tour in which they move fore several kilometers deep in the savanna and then, instead of coming back to the base camp, the staff goes before them in order to prepare a mobile safari camp and to have everything ready for dinner and night sleep. It seems they appreciate it a lot, every year we can see more and more tourist groups in mobile safari tours, must be something fun for them!

Kenya’s Masai Mara, maybe a paradise for tourists, but sometimes is not so easy place to live in for us the zebras, but I am happy to be again one of the survivals and I expect to be one of us for a very long life!

How about combining golf and glamping?

Enjoying a glamping wedding at a golf resort is something I recommend



Yesterday I was fortunate to be invited to a memorable wedding that was held at a nice golf course by the sea with a spectacular view to the mountains.

The originality of this wedding was given by the fact thar the ceremony and the wedding party were held inside a capacious glamping tent placed on the training court what I consider a very smart idea. By using the training area the golfcourse was preserverd from any damage, while the guests to the wedding could enjoy a nice time  in that wonderful surroundings, something very different from the more traditional and common experience of participating in a weeding held inside the golf club building,



The wedding celebrated inside the glamping tents is something completely different because of the feeling of closeness to nature while celebrating the wedding.

Thinking on the nice time we had there I realized the new possibilities that open for a golf court by taking advantage of the natural spaces availables in order to use them for celebrations like weddings or other kind of events, thanks to the use of big glamping tents that create a special environment, is all what you need to enjoy a relaxing experience and to recharge the batteries at the same time you create some new memories for your family book.

I will recommend to my family and friends holding their forthcoming celebrations in a site like this and to the organizers to select the right tents that incorporate suitable thermal isolation for the improve guests’ comfort.

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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