Planning a Tour

            Do you know how much difficult it is to plan a tour ? That too when it involves 10 to 15 people.  Day have to be convenient, dates have to be well planned, place plays a very important role and last comes the budget.

            In many instances family tour becomes inevitable. But tour with friends is a mere choice where we never feel like using the option “NO”. As I always say, friends share the same wave length. Even if not same, they love adjusting for each others.

            If one friend drops there are so many chances that other frogs also drop their plans L . It is really tough to keep all people intact. Each person’s opinion has to be considered in every matter and majority wins in almost all instances.

            Once we start to plan a tour we should be prepared to hear a ready “NO” from few. A ready “Yes” from many. But as the plan continues with discussion on date and number of days people tend to drop the plans. They start remembering other commitments which earlier they forgot. They start prioritising other occasions than the tour. Some emergencies arises which do not let people to proceed as they wish. Finally when we count the number of people it’ll be 2 to 4. @ would be people who organise the tour (as they themselves cannot drop) and other 2 would be lovely hearts who wish to be by the side of organisers.

            Somehow after convincing everyone who is about to drop the plan, the date and day undergoes so many changes. Here booking the means of conveyance and place of stay cannot be pre planned as the tour itself will not be finalised till last 2 days.

            So after planning all the other itenaries – places to visit in the location selected has to be planned. Kilometers has to be known, time has to be calculated and weather has to be analysed. Possibility of rains and storms may spoil the entire plan. After this the starting point has to be decided when each friends are put up at different cities. Travelling has to be planned from a single location otherwise the fun element would be lost. There is no point in asking everyone to report to the tour spot themselves. So that travel to a centre spot has to be taken care off , from various cities.

            No one’s feelings should be hurt. One cannot dominate  all others. No one should feel out of place. All these really matters for the success of the tour. People who owns this nature must be chosen for the trip. Odd men should be left out.

            This is how a tour is organised. It is not a piece of cake to easily bake. It demands so much of patience, enthusiasm, responsibility and co-operation, support from many. All these were undergone by us.  We dropped the entire plan and again rebuilt the plan. At last we successfully made a trip to coorg for 2 days with 11 people.

Dear all  members of the tour- let’s say

Hip Hip Hurray!!

Hip Hip Hurray!!

Hip Hip Hurray!!