From the history of the department
The Dumánci Youth Tourist Club has a short but relatively rich history. It was unofficially established in 2008 from an initiative to create a section uniting teenagers from various children's camps operating in the Sedlčany region. During the first years, the club ran, but still runs, various weekend events for older children full of various games. At the beginning of 2010, the Dumánci section started its official activities, and its name was determined spontaneously according to the most popular section game. The section thus became a member of the Association of Youth Tourist Sections and took advantage of the opportunity to take over the vacant rotation at the children's summer camp at Trkovský pond. Camps have been held at this traditional camp site of the Sedlčany Tomík people for more than 20 years, and most of our leaders have been going to this camp from a young age, either under the leadership of Ládi Jelena or Jirka Procházka.
Our first camps at this camp went beyond expectations and gave us a strong motivation to continue organizing summer children's camps. As our troop grew year by year, the Trk camp became too small for us. We were looking for a campsite with enough facilities to store our camping equipment all year round, as well as a campsite where we could host more than one camp tour per season. And we found such a campsite in 2012 on the banks of the river Lužnice near the village of Slavňovice. This place was a popular boating camp of the University of Economics. With the general decline of interest in boating, the interest of VŠE in the maintenance of this camp also declined, and we thus had a sensational opportunity to purchase this camp. Despite the floods, two three-week children's camps took place at this camp in 2013.