Hiking a mountain can be an alternative destination you can choose when you are in holiday. The only thing you have to make sure is that how long does your holiday is since many of the mountains are taking times (days) until you can reaches the top.
Sometimes, hiking can also takes no longer than a day, but surely that will be not how you want to spend your holiday, isn’t it? If you can be at the mountain for some days, at least 2 days, you can then really enjoy your time up there.
But if only you could be there for hours, that won’t be any problem at all but you should realized that you may not experience much things and see many things on the top.
Reasons why you’d like to hike a mountain at holiday
As there are many reasons why you should get a holiday, hiking a mountain is also has some reasons that should be concerned.
Is is a sport, it can be done by whoever you are, and it is actually has been one of the option where you want to spend your holiday since the first place like any other destinations.
The different thing is that, it needs your energy and times more than before. Depending on how high the mountain is and how difficult the terrains of hiking are, but mostly you will spend at least a day to be on the peak and to get down the mountain.
Yet, it’s still one place you can ever be which brings different experiences and beautiful views you’ve never seen before.
1. Hiking mountain encourages us to respect nature even more
You will never know the journey you are going to get when hiking a mountain. But if that will be the first time for you, it is possible that you will see things differently.
The forests you are going to passing through in a hike are no more than just the trees and all the living creatures inside. But, things will change differently when you are start hiking the mountain.
You will really thankful for seeing the green forests over the land and it is something really special to experience no matter how tiring you are.
Your respect for the environment will be bigger than before since you will realized that is is something important that also needs to be experienced by the future generations.
2. Hiking can also be your spiritual journey
Rather than just considering it as one of the trip and sport you are getting through in your life, for some reasons, being at outdoor like this has its own spiritual side for ourself.
It is not only about the spiritual paths or trees or spots that may have been sacred by the local people living around the mountain. But hiking can also be the thing you can do to find yourself, to restore your inner balance or experience the pure peace at nature.
3. Unplug yourself from the world
Have you been thinking before to stay away from the social medias, networking, mobile phones or internet things? Hiking a mountain can be the 100 % way to getaway from all of those since all the networks are probably forbidden up there.
Hiking truly is the welcome break to the stress release and doing things differently as your everyday routine to get closer to nature and forget all the things at home and work.
It is really the best thing you can do without being trapped to another stress in life and relief yourself to many things that can’t be considered as the burden for your shoulders.
There are more benefits you can get by hiking a mountain but the top 3 reasons above are rarely being told to us so I try to written them down. If you are agree with me, hope this post will deserves a share as well.