But you need to keep in mind that hiking trip are quite challenging in various aspects. Don't keep your estimates low. If you are in the learning stage then try to learn from now onwards. Get a helping stick for the trip Though there is no compulsion, that you should take a stick for walking, it will be of great help if you take. But be ready for the painstaking as along with pleasure and adventure, you need to suffer the weariness- your back muscles, your legs and arms, shoulders and the whole body itself will ache. Let us watch out some possible problems that may arise while going on hiking and some measures needed to rectify. You can see that old people will be carrying poles, walker or crutches in order to walk with the help of it. Likewise hiking sticks also help you to climb the hikes, it will be supportive to your moves and it's designed and developed with additional stability, these sticks will also help to back up by spreading the full weight on the legs onto your limbs. This is a kind of trip where you will stay in the unsophisticated mountain lodges or huts made of alpine trees without any cook for preparing meals or any porter to carry your luggage. It will cost less than the traditional style one, but it may make you feel quite uncomfortable, if you happen to focus all your energy to drag till the end of your trail. Make sure you have someone trustable to share your travel plan As you are going to hiking vacation, supposing the worst case, let us be prepared and let the plan of your trip be made by one of your friend or family members or anyone reliable Thus they will chart you a list of places and they will get to know the places to search, if you are lost on the way and thus they can put their efforts fully. Drinking water is an item which cannot be excluded from your list of things .You need to bring the water always, though the hiking trajectory passes by a river or you can get water in the way. Don't take any risk and depend on water of the river or from the shop there and take enough drinking water needed throughout your trip ,for the whole duration of the walk .