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Cristalino Lodge Puts Guests Above the Amazon Canopy, Not Just Beside It

Cristalino Lodge sits on a private reserve bordering Cristalino State Park in the southern Brazilian Amazon, built around two freestanding canopy towers that put guests level with the treetops rather than looking up at them.

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Clayoquot Wilderness Resort Puts Guests in a Rainforest Reachable Only by Boat or Floatplane

A seasonal camp of canvas-walled tents on a sheltered inlet within Clayoquot Sound, on Vancouver Island's west coast, Clayoquot Wilderness Resort is reachable only by floatplane or boat and built entirely around access to old-growth temperate rainforest and coastal wildlife.

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Inside Bwindi: How Uganda's Impenetrable Forest Turned Gorilla Trekking Into a Genuine Luxury Stay

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, home to roughly half the world's remaining mountain gorillas, has quietly become one of Africa's more considered luxury destinations, with a handful of forest-edge lodges built around a single daily gorilla trek.

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Lofoten's Rorbu Cabins Turn a Working Fishing Village Into a Place to Stay

Lofoten's rorbu, timber cabins on stilts once built for Arctic cod fishermen, have become one of Norway's most distinctive places to stay, set directly over the water in villages that are still working fishing communities.

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Singita Turned a Family Cattle Ranch in the Sabi Sand Into One of Africa's Original Design Safaris

Singita's two lodges in South Africa's Sabi Sand Game Reserve, opened in 1993 and 1996 on land the Bailes family had farmed since the 1920s, helped set the template for design-led, conservation-funded African safaris.

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Amanzoe Turned a Peloponnese Hilltop Into a Marble-Clad Modern Acropolis

Amanzoe, perched above Porto Heli on the Peloponnese's eastern coast since 2012, borrows Doric columns and marble for a hilltop resort where every pavilion has its own pool and its own view of the Argolic Gulf.

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South Luangwa National Park Is Where the Walking Safari Was Invented

South Luangwa National Park in eastern Zambia, threaded by the meandering Luangwa River and famous for its leopard density, is where guided walking safaris were pioneered in the 1950s and remain the defining way to experience it.

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The Brando Turned Marlon Brando's Private Atoll Into French Polynesia's Quietest Luxury Address

Tetiaroa, the atoll Marlon Brando bought in the 1960s and never developed in his lifetime, is now home to The Brando, a single low-density resort built around solar power, deep seawater cooling and a working research station rather than conventional beach-resort spectacle.

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The Pantanal's Lodges Are Where Brazil's Wildest Wetland Meets Genuine Comfort

The Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland spanning Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, has become one of South America's most rewarding wildlife destinations, with a small handful of lodges built for serious jaguar and bird watching rather than crowds.

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At Shinta Mani Wild, Guests Arrive by Zipline Into Cambodia's Cardamom Rainforest

Shinta Mani Wild, a 15-tent camp designed by Bill Bensley inside Cambodia's Southern Cardamom National Park, opened in 2018 with a zipline arrival and a stay that funds an anti-poaching ranger patrol across roughly 32,000 hectares of rainforest.

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Amanpuri's Pavilions Were Modelled on Ayutthaya's Temples, Not a Beach Resort

Amanpuri, which opened on a former coconut plantation above Phuket's Pansea Beach in 1988, was the first Aman resort and set the low-rise, temple-inspired template the brand has followed ever since.

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The Okavango Delta's Water Camps Reach Their Game Drives by Mokoro, Not Just by Jeep

A scatter of camps across northern Botswana's private concessions reach the Okavango Delta's flooded channels by light aircraft and mokoro canoe, following an inland river system that never reaches the sea.