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9.8

Cliffside Hotels Canyon Point, Utah

Amangiri

Built around an ancient Navajo sandstone mesa in the canyon country of southern Utah, Amangiri's poured concrete suites have private plunge pools calibrated to catch the electric blues and crimsons of the desert sky. The main pool is pressed against the mesa face; the spa treatment rooms hover over the rock itself.

Resort designed around an ancient geological mesa formation

Private pool suites with direct canyon and mesa views

From

$2,000

/ night

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9.5

Castle Hotels Cong, County Mayo

Ashford Castle

Built in 1228 on the shores of Lough Corrib in County Mayo, Ashford Castle is the real thing — not a Victorian hotel with a turret, but 800 years of Irish history spread across 350 acres with 83 individually designed rooms, Ireland's best falconry school, and a dining room that takes the surrounding land seriously.

800-year-old authentic Irish castle

Ireland School of Falconry on estate

From

$500

/ night

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Awasi Atacama, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta

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9.5

Desert Camps San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta

Awasi Atacama

Twelve private villas in the high Atacama Desert, each with its own vehicle and private guide — the most personalised access to the world's driest non-polar desert. The Atacama's salt flats, geysers, flamingo lagoons, and 8,000-metre volcanoes are not shared with other guests on schedules; they are explored at your own pace with a dedicated expert.

Private guide and vehicle for each villa

Personalised Atacama exploration without group tours

From

$1500

/ night

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Bisate Lodge, Volcanoes National Park, Northern Province

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Safari Lodges Volcanoes National Park, Northern Province

Bisate Lodge

Six private forest villas on the slopes of an extinct volcano in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the most biodiverse national park in Africa per unit area and the primary habitat of the endangered mountain gorilla. AndBeyond's most architecturally striking property is designed around traditional Rwandan building forms — the thatched cones of the villas rising from a reforested volcanic slope.

Gorilla trekking permit access in Volcanoes National Park

Six villas modelled on traditional Rwandan architectural forms

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$1800

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