Ecopod Boutique Retreat - Funky Pods In A Birch Woodland Setting

You can fly across most of Western Australia and see barely a soul below – just red earth, then blue water, then more red earth. Sal Salis sits right where those two extremes collide: a scattering of safari tents dropped between a national park full of gorges and kangaroos, and …

There are no light switches at Feynan Ecolodge. No minibar, no television, no electricity sockets in the rooms. What you get instead is candlelight flickering off stone walls, a sky so dense with stars it feels structural, and the sound of nothing in particular. Located deep inside Jordan's Dana Biosphere …

A single photograph did it: covered wagons parked against blood-red cliffs, looking more like a Western film set than a working hotel. It turns out the wagons are real, they're bookable, and they sit a mile from the entrance to one of Utah's quietest national parks - one so overshadowed …

At Hotel Icefiord in Ilulissat, Greenland, the staff keep a chalkboard in the restaurant where they mark a line for every whale spotted from the terrace each month. Some months it fills up fast. It's a bit of a running joke among them, but it also sums up the whole …

After a long day scrambling over red rock, the appeal of a place like the Broken Spur Inn & Steakhouse becomes obvious fast. It sits on a hilltop just outside Torrey, Utah, close enough to Capitol Reef National Park that you can be back at the entrance in five minutes, …

Somewhere between Malmedy and the Hautes Fagnes nature reserve, hidden inside a forest in the Belgian Ardennes, there is a neon sign on a building facade that reads: We Love You. It is the first thing you see when you arrive at Daft Hotel, and it sets the tone for …

There are around 4,000 certified campgrounds within a reasonable distance of Zion National Park. Most offer a flat patch of gravel, a fire ring, and a shower block that smells like everyone else's shampoo. Zion White Bison Resort, sitting just outside the park boundary in Virgin, Utah, offers something unique: …

Picture this: you're sitting next to an open fire, a glass of Kyushu barley shochu in hand, watching the lights of Fukuoka glitter across a valley below. Behind you is your room - and depending on which type you booked, it might be a cave-like villa, a hillside cottage with …