Treasure hunting and track games with the geocaching
If you don't know what to do during your next vacation, here's a new travel trend, the treasure hunt. We call it geocaching and this new way of walking and living unpublished experiences spread like a drag of powder. Attention, event!
The principle of geocaching
Between treasury hunt and orientation race (souven yourself at the time you walked the woods with a map and/or a compass!), the geocaching is like the travel and tourist of the moment. The geocaching is to find small objects – often boxes containing bibelots – that have been hidden by initiates in picturesque corners or simply by a beautiful walk. You are equipped with a GPS and... your direction.
There are already more 6 million followers throughout the world and the number continues to grow. So, you want to play the Indiana Jones?
Operation
The geocaching consists of finding what is called "geocaches" or "cashes", a simple container that includes valueless bibelots or other information that leads to other caches. There are different types of caches, some being puzzles to decipher. The caches are classified by level from 1 to 5 depending on their difficulty to reach them. This treasure hunt is similar to Tracks, these track games in the form of puzzles .
Armé de votre GPS and coordinates recovered on the Internet, you must find a number of these caches and place others instead so that a next "geo-searcher" as you can find it. Each member or player must indicate their passage by writing a small word on a register that is included in the cache. Subsequently, it is necessary to register its object exchange directly on the website to indicate that you have found the geocache.
A real phenomenon
As the geocaching appeared in the USA in the 2000s, it developed in France from 2005. But with the power of the Internet, the arrival of smartphones, the development of free applications, this leisure has literally exploded and the fever of the geocaching has seized many followers. It should be noted that there would be more than 100,000 caches throughout the Hexagon and almost 2.6 million in total in 222 countries. More than 6 million geachers are registered in the world.
Originally, the geocaching was reserved for experienced hikers, and today it touches a wider audience. So much to say that this leisure is perfect for your desire to travel, to discover and to bring you tenderly to this age of carelessness where you had fun looking for a lost treasure at the bottom of a wood.
Why do you want to get there?
Photo credit: Pixabay – Settergren
Treasure hunting 2.0 or geocaching has multiple assets:
It is an excellent sport and a great relaxation that you can discover with family, with friends. It is also an activity that you can practice with your children: while many times, tourism is a little “noose” for them, here is an excellent opportunity to combine discovery and pleasure with your children. It should also be noted that the service is totally free for all, just like the Cists. For lovers of challenges and strong sensations, the geocaching is the perfect activity. There is even a so-called "extreme geocaching" version with caches located in trees over 6 m high or in water.
To register and how to (re)discover the nice little places in your region: Geocaching.com
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