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Go glamping! Luxury travel in the great outdoors
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Explore a travel trend that mixes glamour with camping.
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By Dee Van Dyk
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Rockwater Secret Cove Resort/Veranda by Day
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If you've always loved camping except for the bugs, oh-so-thin sleeping bags, questionable cuisine and dangerously long treks to the (outdoor) washroom, an emerging trend might be to your tastes. It's called glamping (glamorous + camping = glamping) and it's all about adding glamour to the whole camping experience.
Global adventures
A Morocco walker camp experience
Sister up with some of your best girlfriends and explore the options available from Country Walkers, whose women's walking trip in Morocco features a stay at a desert tented camp. The tent itself is a fairly simple affair, with a mattress bed, wool blankets and nearby toilets and showers, but what glams up this tenting experience is a guided tour of local souks (markets), belly dancing lessons and Moroccan cuisine such as tajines (stews) and couscous.
Best of Botswana camping
Up the glam ante with a Botswana Flying Safari travel package from Mountain Travel Sobek travel package. Travel the lagoons of the Okavango Delta in a mokoro (dugout canoe) poled by local boatmen. Explore all day and return at night to deluxe tented camps where you'll find sumptuous meals incorporating African and Afrikaner cuisine. Don't miss the "sundowners," evening drinks set up in the middle of nowhere at the end of a game drive, and don't decline the midmorning milk pie with your coffee.
The Savuti Camp, along the Savuti Channel in northern Botswana, consists of seven walk-in tented rooms, each tent built off the ground on wooden decks. While campers enjoy the on-site amenities, including a bar and plunge pool, a nearby watering hole serves as nature's water bar to indigenous wildlife.
Get to know Mongolia
Travel to Mongolia and participate in Nomadic Expeditions' high-end camping cultural and adventure journeys. The traditional felt tents (called gers) of nomadic herders are upgraded to a more luxurious status with wood-burning stoves, hand-painted wooden beds and furniture -- and electricity. A main lodge building ups the luxury factor by providing a fully stocked bar and Mongolian meals, produced in concert with local farmers.
Image courtesy Rockwater Secret Cove
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