Lodges, Ranches and Camps

Safari camps, mountain lodges, ranches and the places far from a road.

Stays

Rows of tea bushes across green hills, with forested mountains beyond.

Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort

Anantara Golden Triangle sits on a wooded ridge of 160 acres above the point where the Ruak and the Mekong meet, and from the terraces you look across to Myanmar and Laos.

Golden Triangle, Chiang Rai, Thailand

A view over the ocean from a green hilltop.

Anjajavy le Lodge

Anjajavy le Lodge stands at the tip of a wild peninsula on the north-western coast of Madagascar, inside a nature reserve of nearly 11,000 hectares.

Anjajavy Peninsula, north-western Madagascar

Mountain ridges under a clear blue sky in Antioquia.

Cannúa stands on a mountainside near Marinilla in eastern Antioquia, its large windows looking over the San Nicolás valley, with forest all around; the lodge says three quarters of its land is set aside as a forest reserve.

Marinilla, Antioquia, Colombia

Lord Howe Island from above at sunset, a crescent beach and lagoon below the island's southern peaks.

Capella Lodge

Capella Lodge sits at the foot of Mount Gower and Mount Lidgbird on Lord Howe Island, a UNESCO-listed island of rainforest and reef in the Tasman Sea, about 780 kilometres north-east of Sydney.

Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia

Wild poppies on the Sonoran Desert floor near Wickenburg, Arizona.

Castle Hot Springs

Castle Hot Springs opened in 1896 as Arizona's first wellness resort, on 1,100 acres where natural springs rise at 180,000 gallons a day.

Morristown, Arizona

A white suite tent lit at dusk in a garden, with mountains behind.

Chamba Camp Thiksey

Chamba Camp Thiksey, one of the TUTC camps, stands below Thiksey Monastery, one of the great gompas of Ladakh, often compared to a smaller Potala Palace.

Thiksey, Ladakh, India

A villa lounge open on one side to a still waterhole and the trees beyond.

Cheetah Plains

Cheetah Plains sits inside the Sabi Sand, the private reserve that shares an unfenced border with Kruger National Park to the east and is known above all for leopard and Big Five sightings.

Sabi Sand Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa

A rainbow over the falls in Murchison Falls National Park.

Chobe Safari Lodge

Chobe Safari Lodge stands above the bank of the Nile on the eastern side of Murchison Falls National Park, in an area of the park that sees few visitors, with the sound of the river's rapids below.

Murchison Falls National Park, north-western Uganda

A white canvas tent on stilts at the edge of the forest, reflected in still water.

Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge

Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge opened in 2000, the vision of its founder Richard Genovese, on 600 acres at the mouth of the Bedwell River, at the head of a deep fjord in the middle of the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Tall rainforest trees along the bank of a wide, calm river.

Cristalino Lodge

Cristalino Lodge lies on the Cristalino River in the southern Brazilian Amazon, inside a private reserve of more than 11,000 hectares of rainforest.

Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil

An elephant standing in shallow water among reeds.

Duba Plains Camp

Duba Plains Camp belongs to Great Plains Conservation and stands in the private Duba Concession, a reserve of 33,000 hectares in the heart of the Okavango Delta.

Duba Concession, Okavango Delta, Botswana

The cluster of log cabins in a forested valley at dusk, with lights glowing and a creek in front.

Dunton Hot Springs

Dunton Hot Springs is a 19th-century mining camp in a high valley of the San Juan Mountains, restored cabin by cabin into a small mountain retreat.

Dolores, Colorado

The bow of a wooden mokoro in a narrow channel lined with reeds and water lilies.

Eagle Island Lodge, A Belmond Safari

Eagle Island Lodge sits on Xaxaba, a small island in the Okavango Delta, the UNESCO-listed inland water system of northern Botswana.

Okavango Delta, Botswana

The turf-roofed farm buildings in a green valley beneath steep mountains.

Eleven Deplar Farm

Eleven Experience took a 15th-century sheep farm in the Fljót valley, on the Troll Peninsula of northern Iceland, and turned it into a lodge built around the landscape in every season.

Fljót Valley, Troll Peninsula, Iceland

The snow-covered peaks of the Alaska Range above the tundra in Denali National Park.

Eleven Winterlake Lodge

Winterlake Lodge stands on the shore of Finger Lake on the western edge of the Alaska Range, beside the historic Iditarod Trail, about 198 miles north-west of Anchorage.

Finger Lake, Alaska Range, Alaska

Timber treehouse suites above native bush with snow-capped mountains behind at dawn.

Hapuku Lodge + Tree Houses

Hapuku Lodge sits ten kilometres north of Kaikōura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, between the Kaikōura Ranges and the Pacific.

Kaikōura, South Island, New Zealand

The lodge in its gardens above the fast blue water of the Waikato River, morning mist in the trees.

Huka Lodge

Huka Lodge began more than a century ago as a fishing camp of white canvas tents on the banks of the Waikato River, a few hundred metres upstream from Huka Falls and close to Lake Taupō on the North Island of New Zealand.

Taupō, North Island, New Zealand

A lioness standing on pale sand, looking towards the camera.

Jack's Camp

Jack Bousfield founded Jack's Camp in the 1960s on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans, one of the largest salt-pan systems on earth, and his son Ralph later gave it the 1940s safari style for which it became known.

Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana

A rocky outcrop above a river, seen from the air.

La Manigua Lodge

La Manigua Lodge sits on the banks of the Guayabero River, where the Colombian Amazon meets the Orinoquía, inside the Sierra de La Macarena National Natural Park.

Guayabero River, near La Macarena, Colombia

Aerial view of a river winding through green forest and pasture towards the Pacific.

Lapa Rios Lodge

Lapa Rios runs along a ridge on the Osa Peninsula, hundreds of feet above the Pacific, within a private reserve of 1,000 acres that forms part of the last lowland tropical rainforest in Central America.

Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Two elephants on green grassland under a pink evening sky.

Linkwasha Camp

Linkwasha Camp, run by Wilderness, lies in the south-eastern part of Hwange National Park, on the edge of the Ngamo Plains, and its guests also have the use of the adjoining Makalolo Private Wilderness Reserve of about 34,000 hectares.

Ngamo Plains, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

A hippopotamus resting in green grass with birds in South Luangwa National Park.

Lion Camp

Lion Camp lies in the remote northern reaches of South Luangwa National Park, the valley where walking safaris began, close to one of the last water sources of the dry season.

Northern sector, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia

A giraffe standing among green trees in Mozambique.

Muzimu Lodge

Muzimu Lodge stands on the banks of the Mussicadzi River inside Gorongosa National Park, a wilderness of some 4,000 square kilometres at the southern end of Africa's Great Rift Valley in central Mozambique.

Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique

An elephant with birds on its back in tall grass.

Mweya Safari Lodge

Mweya Safari Lodge stands on a peninsula in the heart of Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda, above the Kazinga Channel, which carries water between Lake George and Lake Edward.

Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kasese, Uganda

A lone acacia against the setting sun on the open grassland of the Serengeti.

Namiri Plains

Namiri Plains sits on the Ngare Nanyuki River in the eastern Serengeti, an open stretch of grassland that the camp's operator calls big cat country.

Eastern Serengeti, Tanzania

The Victorian lodge beyond a lawn and tall poplars, the hills behind.

Otahuna Lodge

Otahuna Lodge is a turreted Queen Anne mansion built in 1895 for a prominent Canterbury statesman, set against the fluted cone of an ancient volcano on the edge of Christchurch.

Tai Tapu, Christchurch, New Zealand

White water running over rocks through dense green rainforest.

Pacuare Lodge

Pacuare Lodge sits on a rainforest bend of the Pacuare River, inside a 340-hectare reserve in a valley the Cabécar have called home for 3,000 years.

Pacuare River, Turrialba, Costa Rica

The Nile forcing through the gorge at Murchison Falls.

Paraa Safari Lodge

Paraa Safari Lodge was established in 1954 in Murchison Falls National Park, in the north west of Uganda, and looks over the Nile on its way from Lake Victoria to Lake Albert.

Murchison Falls National Park, north-western Uganda

The lodge on the edge of a green volcanic caldera on Santa Cruz, the sea and islands beyond.

Pikaia Lodge

Pikaia Lodge, holder of Two MICHELIN Keys in 2026, a 50 Best Discovery property and named the World's Leading Adventure Hotel by the World Travel Awards, sits on the edge of an extinct volcanic crater on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos.

Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, Ecuador

An arched concrete bridge spanning a canyon on the Big Sur coast, with a beach and cliffs beyond.

Post Ranch Inn

Post Ranch Inn opened in 1992 on a ridge 1,200 feet above the Pacific at Big Sur, the only hotel by the architect Mickey Muennig, who settled on the coast in 1971.

Big Sur, California

A suite's sitting room opening on to a deck above the bush, armchairs set for two.

Royal Malewane

Royal Malewane is The Royal Portfolio's safari property in the Thornybush Private Nature Reserve, part of the unfenced wilderness of the Greater Kruger.

Thornybush, Greater Kruger, South Africa

Royal Zambezi Lodge

Royal Zambezi Lodge was built by a family with a long love of Africa on a private domain of about 200 hectares in the Chiawa Game Management Area, with three and a half kilometres of frontage on the northern bank of the Zambezi.

Chiawa Game Management Area, Lower Zambezi, Zambia

The lodge buildings beneath Emigrant Peak, reflected in a still casting pond.

Sage Lodge

Sage Lodge stands on the banks of the Yellowstone River in Montana's Paradise Valley, 35 minutes north of Yellowstone National Park, on more than 1,200 acres of private land beneath Emigrant Peak and the Absaroka Mountains.

Paradise Valley, Pray, Montana

The stone terraces and buildings of Machu Picchu beneath tall green peaks.

Sanctuary Lodge, A Belmond Hotel, Machu Picchu

Sanctuary Lodge is the only hotel beside Machu Picchu, about 50 metres from the citadel and a three-minute walk to the entrance.

Machu Picchu, Peru

Elephants and antelope on a sandy riverbank beside a wide, still river.

Savute Elephant Lodge, A Belmond Safari

Savute Elephant Lodge looks out over the Savute Channel in the Chobe National Park, a stretch of northern Botswana known for its elephants.

Savute, Chobe National Park, Botswana

A herd of wildebeest running across dry grass near the Mara River.

Sayari Camp

Sayari Camp stands in the northern Serengeti close to the Mara River, which places it on the route of the wildebeest herds when they cross the river between July and October.

Northern Serengeti, Tanzania

Selinda Camp

Selinda Camp belongs to Great Plains Conservation and stands inside the private Selinda Reserve in northern Botswana, on the bank where the Selinda Spillway runs into the Linyanti River, an area the company calls one of the most untouched wildernesses left.

Selinda Reserve, Linyanti, Botswana

The lodge's timber and glass suites above the Adelaide Hills at sunset.

Sequoia Lodge

Sequoia Lodge sits high on Mount Lofty in the Adelaide Hills, on a 30-acre property beside the Mount Lofty House estate, about 20 minutes from the centre of Adelaide.

Crafers, Adelaide Hills, South Australia

A sandy bay and turquoise water below a green headland.

Sheen Falls Lodge

Sheen Falls Lodge sits where the Sheen River tumbles into Kenmare Bay, a few minutes' drive from the town of Kenmare.

Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland

The river at dusk, edged by rainforest, with lit buildings among the trees.

Silky Oaks Lodge

Silky Oaks Lodge sits above the Mossman River in Tropical North Queensland, next to the World Heritage-listed Daintree National Park, part of a rainforest thought to be around 180 million years old.

Mossman River, Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, Australia

Forested mountains in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Silverback Lodge

Silverback Lodge sits high on a ridge above the forest canopy at Buhoma, on the edge of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in western Uganda, about five minutes' walk from the park, with sweeping views over the valley and the forest.

Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

A leopard looking over its shoulder in soft green bush.

Singita Boulders Lodge

Singita Boulders Lodge stands on the boulder-strewn banks of the Sand River, in Singita's privately owned reserve of 45,000 acres within the Sabi Sand.

Sand River, Singita Sabi Sand, Sabi Sand Game Reserve, South Africa

A mountain gorilla resting among green leaves and bamboo.

Singita Kwitonda Lodge

Singita Kwitonda Lodge stands on the edge of Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda, sharing a 1.2-kilometre boundary with the park and less than 10 minutes from the headquarters where gorilla treks begin.

Kinigi, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

A low pavilion with lit windows and an outdoor pool on coastal heath at dusk.

Southern Ocean Lodge

Southern Ocean Lodge was conceived by James and Hayley Baillie and designed by the Kangaroo Island-born architect Max Pritchard, opening in 2008 on the limestone cliffs above Hanson Bay, between Flinders Chase National Park and Seal Bay Conservation Park.

Hanson Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia