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Unwind at Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
The word ‘awesome’ does not even begin to describe the experience of staying at Ngorongoro Crater Lodge in northern Tanzania . Set on the rim of vast crater in the Serengeti, is feel as if you are standing at the top of the world. The lodge is next to the largest unbroken volcanic caldera in the world, more than 4,970 miles (8,000 km) of pristine African wilderness, a paradise for the wild animals that roam its rich grassland
Tags: africa, bertrandj, crater, crater-lodge, fireplace, great-migration, james-cocker, parks, photos, relax, romantic, tanzania, travel stories, wildlife, worldEarth Lodge
The Africa World Travel Awards have voted Sabi Sabi Africa ’s leading safari lodge. Tavel-Leisure magazine calls it one of the top ten hotels of the world. One of four luxury lodges that lie nestled within the 160,620 acres of this private game reserve in the southwestern corner of Kruger National Park , Earth Lodge is a retreat that blends seamlessly with the land around it
Tags: adventure, countries, eating, entire-lifetime, kruger-national, lodge, parks, remote_place, spa, travel stories, walkingCasa Andina
The private island of Isla Suasi , in the north of Lake Titicaca , is as high as the Andes , and the views are literally breathtaking. You can see the vast blue lake from everyone of the twenty-four rooms in this small rustic hotel, not to mention alpaca and vicuna grazing on the hotel’s garden out front
Tags: adventure, casa-andina, hiking, hotel, hotels, peru, pure_air, relaxing, sauna, sightseeings, travel storiesStrawberry Hill
Leap out of bed and pinch yourself: No, you are not dreaming. That scent of an exotic tropical garden is real, carried in on the cool breeze coming off the Blue Mountains behind you. Strawberry Hill is based around an eighteenth-century colonial plantation house perched high in the mountains.
Tags: chris-blackwel, city, exotic-tropical, hernandez, hotel, international, photos, restaurant, sightseeings, the-restaurant, travel storiesMusha Cay
Owned by world-famous illusionist David Copperfield , who purchased it at a coast of $50 million, Musha Cay, Bahamas is 150 acre of pampered seclusion, regarded by the chosen few who have stayed here as one of the world’s most sought-after hideaways.
Tags: islands, photos, private-beach, relaxing, sports-features, swimming, swimming-pool, the-individual, travel stories, villa, womachChiminos Island Lodge
The sudden screech of a rogue howler monkey may wake you in the middle of the night or you may be startled by a crocodile swimming past the window of you room, but this is all part of the appeal of staying at one of the world’s top eco-archaeology escapes. Chimino is an island set in a huge lagoon deep in the Guatemalan jungle . Guests stay in one of the five modern rustic houses built form local mahogany trees that had already fallen
Tags: bungalows, central america, countries, from-the-lagoon, mayan, photos, the-bungalows, travel stories, watersportsEolo Lodge
Few places can boasts about of solitude like the wild panoramas of Patagonia , near the southern tip of South America , where the treeless uninhabitable steppes roll out interminably, and the silence is broken only by the wind. For visitors preferring white coon and soft blankets, there is no finer perch from which to contemplate the Patagonian wilderness than Eolo . Its seventeen suites all have vast picture windows framing breathtaking views across the empty plains and boundless skies, punctuated only by lakes, mountains and on a clear day – the pointy peaks of Torres del Paine straddling the border with Chile . The luxury lodge is set on a 4,000-acre (1,618-ha) cattle.
Tags: america, calcos-brasil, lodge, rates-eliminate, remote_place, south america, travel stories, treeless, walkingHotel Monasterio
Gisele Bundchen and Leonardo DiCaprio have laid their heads on the soft linen pillows in Cusco’s Hotel Monasterio , one of the luxury properties at the vanguard of South America ’s style revolution. Converted from a sixteenth-century monastery and build around a cloistered courtyard, the Monasterio has an ambience of calm efficiency.
Tags: continents, history hotel, peru, private-chapel, service-offers, sightseeings, south america, through-filters, travel stories, vanguardHacienda Bukare
Still as wild and exotic as when Christopher Columbus set foot there during the his third voyage to the New World in 1498, Venezuela ’s northern Paria region is a chocoholic’s heaven. At the balmy heart of what is know locally as the ”chocolate coast” is Hacienda Bukare , a guesthouse and working cocoa plantation where handmade chocolates are produced
Tags: before-the-real, chocolate, countries, garden, harvesting, hotels, still-as-wild, travel stories, tree, vacations, venezuelaJalousie Plantation
When the current owner of this former sugar plantation bought it, the place could be reach only by canoe.
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