The world's best glamping stays

Bill Bensley tents strung along a jungle river, arrival by zipline, conservation patrols included.

Fly-in canvas tents on a remote rainforest inlet, all-inclusive with horseback riding, kayaking and bear viewing.

Elevated tented pavilions facing Uluru, fully inclusive with guided outback experiences.

Architect-designed treerooms, including the Mirrorcube and UFO, hung in a Lapland pine forest.

Richard Branson's sculptural tented camp overlooking a valley on the Great Migration route.

Rainforest tents with private hot-spring plunge pools and Arenal volcano views.

Mobile camp that relocates to follow the wildebeest migration across the Serengeti.

Nomadic Resorts-designed cocoon tents where Yala's leopard jungle meets the Indian Ocean.

The original glass igloo village, built for watching the northern lights from bed.

All-inclusive dune tents steps from Ningaloo Reef, with snorkelling and whale sharks in season.

Heli-access only tented chalets on a remote high-country station in the Southern Alps.

Luxury tents among granite hills known for wild leopards living alongside herders.

All-inclusive jungle tents where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet, with an elephant program.

Pioneering geodesic domes facing the Torres del Paine towers, sold with guided trekking programs.

John Hardy's bamboo houses and antique Javanese homes above the Ayung river valley.

Transparent capsules bolted to a cliff 400 m up, reached by via ferrata.

Vintage colonial-style tents run by a fifth-generation safari family on a private conservancy.

Japan's first glamping resort: hillside cabins with Mount Fuji views and campfire dining.

Hilltop glass igloos with motorised beds angled toward the northern lights.

All-inclusive riverside tent camps on a vast Montana ranch with butlers and riding.

Glass-floored, glass-walled eco cabins placed alone in remote landscapes for total privacy.

Clifftop yurts and a woven human nest above the Pacific on the Big Sur coast.

Traditional felt gers built by nomad craftsmen beneath a volcanic outcrop in the Gobi.

Adults-only stilted glass atriums with rooftop decks facing Sedona's red rocks.

Adults-only tents and lumbung huts among rice fields with a saltwater pool near Ubud.

Raised safari tents in a paperbark forest near Jervis Bay's white beaches.

Remote Sahara camp reached by 4x4 deep in Morocco's wildest dune field.

Small cabins with glass-roofed bedrooms and private hot tubs for aurora watching.

Treehouses and pier tents over streams, walking distance from Lake Bled.

Design-led Airstream suites and cabins in the pines on the road into Yosemite.

Panoramic bubble domes and Bedouin tents facing Wadi Rum's red cliffs and night sky.

Transparent bubbles in a birch forest for sleeping under auroras and stars.

Canvas tents in a stony desert 40 minutes from Marrakech, with Atlas mountain views.

Sleep inside giant wine barrels among Douro Valley vineyards on a historic wine estate.

Domes and wooden observatories with opening roofs in one of Earth's clearest-sky valleys.

Safari tents with stargazer windows on a ranch minutes from Yellowstone's west entrance.

Prefab jungle-meets-beach rooms with a social, wellness and music-driven community vibe.

Open-sided thatched beach chalets on a secluded cove at Lombok's remote southeast tip.

Safari tents and cabins on wetland floodplains between Darwin and Kakadu, rich in birdlife.

Treehouse cabins in the Montseny-Guilleries forests with breakfast hoisted up by basket.

Luxury tents in a Venetian villa park, an easy hop to Venice.

Sky domes under dark skies near the Grand Canyon's South Rim.

Luxury tents on a working ranch in the Rockies, a short drive from Vail.

Transparent bubble rooms hidden in Provençal pine woods with telescopes for stargazing.

Four stone-and-canvas tents in Sumba forest near hidden coves and empty beaches.