Jaison Paradkar - Blog by 10 year old kid

  13th August'23, I along with my Podar International school friends Ansh and Naksh went on an adventurous trek to Shidaka mountain range with kid's batch. This trek was planned to create awareness among school students and younger generations to pursue trekking, be self-reliant, be confident, shed fear of height and embrace & appreciate natural beauty and environment surrounding us. I am thankful to team #WildVoyages that selected me and Ansh and also allowed our friend Naksh to join as this kid’s batch comprised of school kids from Navsari. We three were the only kids from our school - Podar International Jahangirabad branch and from Surat as well. The night before journey on Saturday 12th August'23 Ansh stayed at night at my house. We were so excited that instead of sleeping we kept on talking. Then my mom told you both better have some rest else after trekking you are going to be extremely tired and reminded us that on Monday, we have our EVS cyclic test at school w...

Beautiful horizon before Sunrise  Capturing Sunrise  On 13th and 14th May 2023, my parents planned for me to go on night trekking arranged by Wild Voyages with my friend Ansh. We both took train from Surat to Valsad with Sapna Aunty ( Ansh's Mom) on 13th May and reached Wild Voyages office around 1.30 p.m. where aunty dropped us. Around 2 p.m. our First “SOLO” (without our parents) journey started alongwith other trekkers who were all elder than us. We both were the only kids in the lot. Both Ansh and I enjoyed the journey.  We passed so many cities and villages along the way. But my favorite was admiring the trees and forest along the road to Pimpla which was 4 hours drive from Valsad. Once we reached our Base camp, we were given refreshments. I witnessed putting up tent for the FIRST time. Then we had orientation and camp briefing . Vaibhav Sir who was also our Trek leader made us aware of the history about forts around the Sahyadri range. He also informed us how trekki...