Environmental benefits are plenty to boast of as well. The lesser people you travel with, you can consider yourself doing a big favour to mother nature.
1. When you travel with fewer people, you’re prone to be more sensitive to your surroundings and not have that “Who gives a tiny rat’s ass” attitude. Thing is, is when you travel with a lot of people, herd mentality sets in. You ape what the others are doing. If they pee near a tree, you pee too, if they spit, you think it’s okay to do so and this isn’t hard to monitor because there are tons of people to control so no one’s going to be individually patrolling you and your doings. By way of this, you’re dirtying the environment, which means, you obviously didn’t pay attention in Geography class!
2. Also, with larger groups, the possibility of degrading the environment is very high. I mean, just imagine 30 odd feet, small, large, medium sized, all just bulldozing their way down a narrow little trail. The possibility of landslides are just staring you in the face! You just have to pity the earth for having to put up with that! It’s like Gulliver and the Lilliputs, for chrissake! In contrast, smaller groups give you the leeway to travel at intervals without need for hurrying up because, it isn’t a marathon!
3. With tinier numbers, you can pay what is called “attention to detail,” which is extremely important when you venture out exploring the wild because the whole point of going on these excursions is so that you can see mother nature in all her glory and truly appreciate it for what it is. With larger groups, there’s so much banter and other stuff going on like a record in the background that you tend to lose yourself in your own make-believe world and lose out on the essence of your trip. You fail to recall the reason you’re traveling and that’s a little risky because you can’s go back and say, “Yeah, it was a mind-numbingly eye-opening experience” because frankly, you don’t remember half of what you did or saw.
