The Best New Nature Hotels Around the World: 2021 Hot List
"Since Amangiri opened in 2009, a startling concrete mirage in the middle of the 180-million-year-old southern Utah desert, no other hotel has been quite so talked about, photographed, longed for and held up as the ultimate 21st-century escape. So when the Aman group announced it was going to add a tented camp a five-minute drive down the juniper- and wild-sage-scented road, in a year when space, nature, and privacy were most coveted, heads turned. Camp Sarika is a collection of 10 canvas-topped pavilions lodged into the watercolor Colorado Plateau where, from minute to minute, the light and weather shifts—a wild amphitheater of earthly drama. The advantage of staying here versus the minimalist main hotel is the oasis-like solitude. Private decks are built to make the most of the surrounding landscape, with plunge pools and fire-pits. The camp has its own restaurant, which takes its cues from the American Southwest (pozole rojo pork stew, wild-game chilli), as well as a main pool and spa, plus hiking, canyoning, and fireside evenings with Eli Secody, a Navajo storyteller. National parks and the Navajo Nation reservation are within driving (or helicoptering) distance; nearby wonder Lake Powell can be explored by boat or—in true Aman fashion—via a sunrise hot-air-balloon ride. As with all the brand’s outposts, the service here is intuitive and attentive, the details subtle but utterly elevated. A next-level extension of one of the world’s greatest hotel experiences. From $3,500 per night. —Leslie Pariseau" - CNT Editors
