Mara River Safari Lodge Bali - Feed Wild Animals From Your Window

In the foothills of Portugal's Serra da Estrela mountains, a family turned their weekend escape into something extraordinary. Chão do Rio isn't your typical rural retreat - it's what happens when urban dwellers with dirt under their fingernails decide to share their patch of paradise. Twelve kilometers from Serra da …

Deep in the Canadian Arctic, where Hudson Bay meets the boreal forest, lies a place that feels like stepping into another dimension. Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge isn't your typical wilderness getaway - it's a remote outpost where the boundary between civilization and the wild becomes beautifully, sometimes terrifyingly, thin. Located …

The concept sounds like something dreamed up by a particularly ambitious theme park designer: a hotel where you can swim alongside real penguins, separated only by a curved glass wall. Yet here in Lübbenau, deep in the wetlands of Brandenburg's Spreewald region, the Spreewelten Hotel has turned this improbable vision …

Animals strut freely between palm trees while mezcal cocktails are crafted behind an open-air bar – welcome to Acre, a paradoxical oasis where desert meets jungle in the quiet outskirts of San José del Cabo. Sprawling across 25 hectares of improbable greenery, this isn't just another Mexican boutique hotel but …

Sweden's Vildriket-Nordic Wildlife Park takes things a step further. How about a romantic moonlit night with a pack of wolves outside your window roaming freely in the Hälsingland forest? Sounds too crazy? Don't worry. Unlike how things evolved in the Jurassic Park movie, the Wolf Hotel in Vildriket has stood …

When Barry Sternlicht's 1 Hotels brand finally opened its flagship property on Kauai in early 2023, it marked more than just another luxury resort debut. After decades of family vacations to this stretch of Hawaii's North Shore, the hospitality mogul had transformed what he saw as a property disconnected from …

Some places make you work for them. Kennicott Glacier Lodge is one of those places – eight hours from Anchorage, with the final 60 miles on gravel roads that rental car companies won't let you drive on. But those willing to make the journey find themselves at the center of …

Twenty-five miles outside Fairbanks, where cell service becomes spotty and the only light pollution comes from the occasional passing truck, sits one of Alaska's most unusual accommodations. Borealis Basecamp isn't your typical wilderness lodge - it's a collection of fiberglass igloos and converted shipping containers scattered across a ridgeline, all …

Deep in the Mayan jungle near Solferino, Mexico, there's an accommodation that breaks every rule about hotel architecture. Instead of concrete and steel, you'll find yourself sleeping inside a superadobe dome - a structure built from earth-filled polypropylene bags that looks like something between an ancient temple and a spacecraft …

Sleeping in a treehouse as an adult turns out to be less about nostalgia and more about architectural wonder. At Onera Fredericksburg, this whimsical concept gets a sophisticated makeover, with luxury accommodations that feel more like sculptural art pieces than nostalgic backyard hideouts. The property has recently tripled its collection …