Where the Outdoors Is the Main Attraction
Some hotels are really just the starting point for everything outside. Nature brings together places surrounded by forests, jungle, desert, rivers and wide-open landscapes—made for hiking, cycling, kayaking, wildlife watching or simply getting your shoes muddy. Sometimes it’s adventurous, sometimes wonderfully slow. These are hotels where nature isn’t something admired through the bedroom window, but something you’re meant to get out and experience.
Pedro Ibañez founded travel company and hotel owner and operator Explora in 1993 with the goal of opening up remote areas of great natural beauty in his native Chile. His seventh property has recently opened in the Valle Sagrado of Peru, a narrow valley flanked by mountains about 10 miles north of Cusco. Like its predecessors in Patagonia, the Atacama desert, and Easter Island, it was designed by José Cruz Ovalle, a leading Chilean architect and a master of wood construction.
read moreSacromonte Landscape Hotel - El Eden, Uruguay Mirrored cabins, Tannat vineyards and architecture designed to disappear into the Uruguayan sierra Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Brazilian-Uruguayan practice MAPA Architects designed 13 prefabricated shelters that almost disappear into the landscape, their one-way mirrored façades reflecting grasslands, vineyards and sky. ● The cabins combine radical modernism…
read moreAcre Resort, San José del Cabo, MexicoTreehouse dreaming among palms, mango groves, and one of Baja’s most celebrated farm-to-table destinations. Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Twelve beautifully crafted treehouses hidden within a lush palm oasis just outside San José del Cabo. ● A rare combination of design-led hospitality, regenerative agriculture, and a Green Michelin…
read moreWhen Christian Strobel launched Basecamp with the Tahoe South, California location in 2012, he developed a brand that was more than your average boutique concept. He created a summer camp for adults. “It’s a base for exploration that looks to bring the spirit of adventure back into hospitality,” the founder and CEO of the brand explains.
read moreThe owner named the property after his mother, Modesta Maria, who grew up in the original 1940s house built by his grandfather, a local fisherman. Transformed by his sister, the humble home now features nine minimalist suites, each with private bathrooms and patios. The exterior’s clean cubic aesthetic introduces an unfussy interior featuring vaulted brick ceilings and traditional terracotta floor tiles, cedar furnishings and bespoke cork and brass lamps.
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