Bonfire Tips for Campers

Campfire or bonfire is one of the important things in survival or camping when we were in the jungle. The fire has the function to protect ourselves from wild animals, get warm, signal danger, or as a fireplace to cook food.

Here are some things we must consider in making a campfire:

• The choice of location for a bonfire
• Tools and materials available in the vicinity of where we camped
• Time needed.

Wind direction, for a fire safe and durable.

For the selection of places, the things below will help you build a fire:

• Sheltered from the wind
• Dry place
• There are many fuel.

If you are the true adventurers or professional nature lovers, I suggest you to Tanzania safaris to make camping. It is a great natural area where you can really enjoy a very natural world.

Pick a protected place. Except for the purposes of signal or sign of danger, do not light a fire under the tree. Clean leaves, twigs, mushrooms and dried grass in a radius of 2 m circle to get the vacant ground for a fire does not spread and burn the forest. If the soil is moist or wet, make the base of the stem timber and cover with soil, or Cover with stones

To make a fire, we must understand that fire will occur because of three things: air, heat and fuel.

Actually, if we are located in urban areas, making the fire is not a difficult thing in the doing, but if we are in the middle of the forest while the fire-maker is not available, then we must have the ability to create fire from materials available in nature around us.

The fire is made of three materials:

• Fire ignition: dry material that will turn on by heat or sparks. We must provide the material to dry completely for fast burning fire. For example: the shaved wood, dried moss, fern dead, dry leaves, sawdust, gauze, straw, bamboo, etc,
• Angler fire: this material we prepared and will be added after a spark occurs. This material will further increase the size of the fire. For example: pieces of twigs, small pieces of wood, bark, etc. dry.
• Fuel: wood, bamboo, hay, dried leaves, dried animal dung, etc..

Sometimes lit bonfires could be an experience that is really troublesome, if we do not have basic knowledge in the making. Instead of a bonfire that lasted longer, in fact, can be spent matches or fuel. The following brief instructions will help to build a fire.

We should create special places that limit the campfire? Able to pile the stones surrounding the fire wood, or can make excavation.

• Collect wood, twigs, leaves, rubbish, dry and flammable. Stacks of dry wood of large diameter at the bottom, followed by a smaller diameter at the top in position for mutual cross-flammable and air can enter through the gaps.
• Cover with dry leaves or rubbish, on top to taste.
• Burn the leaves / rubbish, to be the trigger fires. If the fire has begun to dilate, stack with small twigs on it. Gently hold the flame for a constant or increase in size, do not rush to add twigs on top.
• If the fire dies and only the remaining embers, blow-Blow at one point until the fire was large by itself, then increase the dried leaves or the like.

Short Tip: if you want to camp for a long time and did not want to lose the fire, search and stacking of dry wood rather large diameter at the bottom, if we’re going to sleep always add a large-diameter wood and reserving coal, for the campfire tomorrow morning can still be lit. We simply add twigs or dried leaves and blew they take.

Although a bonfire seemed easy, but there are some things to consider for a bonfire to stay well and stay in control.

• Make sure the timber you use to dry completely.
• Do not burn all the wood at once, but it must be gradual.
• Note the air circulation! Fire needs air to grow.
• In case of rain, cover the embers with a bush or anything, so when the rain let up we can raise it back campfire.
• Make sure put out a fire if it does not need it.
• The more we are often lit a bonfire, the more adept we do it.