ECOMANTRA ECO ADVENTURES

Activities are an integral part of every Ecomantra trip. Try a dash of adventure or some relaxing nature activities around a campfire or a river, Ecomantra specialises in some unique activities, which you can enjoy with your family or colleagues. Bonding with your team-mates, rejoicing with fun and laughter, renewing your touch with nature, learning something new and taking home exciting memories of your trip - that’s what we are here for!

I . ECO ADVENTURES AT THE CAMP

A. Cool Water Eco Adventures

1. Kayaking - Once you master the tandem kayak with your trainer, it’s time to experience the original one-seater kayak. Go down a river all by yourself, enjoying the actual water sport of kayaking.
2. Canoeing - Paddling a canoe makes you feel top of the world. Playing canoe polo with a team of colleagues and friends is even more fun.
3. Rivercrossing - Try walking across a river in full spate together with your team-mates – it’s fun and a good dose of adventure but not without your safety life jackets on you!
4. Scuba & Snorkelling - Explore and Discover the mysterious underwater world of the oceans with its bright corals and fishes, creatures that are shimmery with colours so bright that they will take your breathe away. So Don your wet suits and lets go exploring 50 feets under the sea.

B. Expedition Eco Adventures

1. Trekking - Whether your goal is a Fort, or a forest, a waterfall, or simply an amazing view from top, trekking will make you experience nature first hand, as you heed the mountain’s call.
2. Rappelling - While on trek, we often come across rock faces, which need to tackled by rope. Rappelling enables you to climb down a cliff quickly through a harness, enhancing your confidence skills and letting go of any fears.
3. Rock climbing - Some rocks invite you to climb them. Use a harness and safety rope, to climb up. Physical fitness and agility will come handy here.
4. Jumaaring - When you climb up a tree or hill side using a rope, it’s jumaaring. Good level of fitness will definitely make it easier.
5. Flying Fox - A rope based activity where you slide down from a height to the base sitting on a harness. If successful, you will surely be declared a flying fox.
6. Valley crossing - As the name suggests, while crossing a valley, you need to tie a strong rope at both the ends. And then crawl upside down a rope, to get to your goal.

II. ECO ADVENTURES IN THE OUTDOOR

C. Forest Eco Adventures

1. Jungle Safaris or Jeep safaris - See the forest on foot, or in a jeep, day or night, stopping for mammal and bird-sightings with a naturalist as your guide.
2. Bird-watching - Be it a river or hillside, pond or fields, thisactivity that brings you closer to nature as you watch in silence the variety of birds and hear bird calls that bring joy to the heart.
3. Butterfly/ Insect trails - Colourful beetles and bugs, hidden termites or intelligent ants - Insects, which form the largest number on earth, can be fascinating especially once you learn about their survival instincts. Taking a closer look at their lives, makes you rid your fears and love these tiny creatures instead.

D. Leisure Eco Adventures

1. Boating - On a gentle flowing river or a serene lake, what more do you need than a boat and some oars to make you a enjoy a beautiful sunset or an early morning warm sun glow.
2. Bicycling - With great enthusiasm we learn how to bicyle in our childhood. Now’s the time to take that bicycle again and ride it on tree-lined roads or a rustic trail that challenges your skills.
3. Swimming - There won’t be a pool, but the waters of a flowing river or lake which makes swimming adventurous. Swimming is allowed only when a life guard is around to ensure your safety.
4. Hammocking - When you don’t want to do anything, but look up at the trees, read a book or simply close your eyes – a hammock is the most inviting of all.
   Bullock Cart Rides - The rustic way to travel, the way our forefathers did. A bullock cart will take you through the roughest of pathways, while you chat with the village driver through your ride.

E. Sharing Nature Eco Adventures

1. Guided Nature Trails - On a trek, around a waterbody, or  while walking through fields, we add an interesting activity called nature trail. Here expert naturalists enable you to discover nature around you and find interesting things, which create awe and inspiration among participants and a renewed love for nature.
2. Snake Alive Interactive - Snakes invoke fear and awe, while a lot of myths surround these slimy creatures. This interactive program is meant for bringing awareness about snakes while increasing your personal confidence. Watch your fears vanish, replaced by a sense of fun and lots of smiles too!
3. Nature Games and Activities - A speciality of Ecomantra is our introduction of Nature games at camps to build up the fun tempo in a natural setting. After trekking up a forest or swim in a wild river, a nature game lets you empathise with your surroundings, and realise that we are all connected to each other, a spirit that you begin to share with your team mates.

Some of the nature games and we play are:

Prey and Predator, Owls and Eagles, Webbing, Animal-Animal, Find your food chain, Noah’s Ark, Who Am I?, Oranges n Plastic, Meet a Tree, Sound Mapping and Folding Poem.

4. Silent Walks - The effect of a silent walk is best felt in a small group. Observing nature around you, listening and absorbing every sound and sight on your walk, without a single word, is an experience to behold.
5. Tree plantation - Trees are the most wanted creatures on earth. At the onset of the monsoon, one of the best things to do is plant saplings or sow seeds on barren land, together in teams to rapidly cover a large area for plantation and make it go green. 
6. Night Walks - A night walk is usually combined with a silent trail or a star gazing one, to experience the stark beauty of the night. A walk at night in the fields or forest gives you confidence that you can see even in the dimmest of light and conquers fears, as your team moves together with you. It’s a deeply stirring experience and many call it one of best activities.

F. Personal Enhancement Eco Activities

1. Yoga with Nature - Yoga derives various asanas from nature. Tree, Bird, Fish, Dog, Cat, Snake, Eagle, Mountain, Crocodile, Lion  – you name it and we have the inspired asana in Yoga. The difference is we will be doing Yoga in an open outdoor space under the trees or by a water body, feeling one with nature.
2. Meditation - Discovering the power within you, the ultimate truth of life, can be achieved through meditation. Meditation is not merely a relaxed and peaceful state of mind – but more like taking a dip into the realm of your own silent secrets waiting to be unfold.
3. The Walk Within - This program is specially suited for smaller groups ranging from 5 to 15 participants. Blind folded forest trails, silent walks, watching birds and mammals at close quarters and experiencing nature in an intimate way, forms the crux of this program. Also included are special partnering games like ‘Meet a Tree’ and naturally rejuvenating activities like swimming in a river, rowing your own boat, sitting quietly in a meadow, on a forest floor or in fields simply observing or doing nothing but spending time with oneself.