Tags archives: glamping

Remembering Rachel: Hippie in Heels

Remembering Rachel: Hippie in Heels

July 3, 2019
Goa, Inspiration, People
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If you follow the travel blogging community, you will have found it hard to miss the awful news that Rachel Jones, author of the popular women's travel blog Hippie in Heels, recently passed away unexpectedly (May 2019.) Her free-spirited nature and long-running India-centric blog are incredibly well known within the worldwide travel community, and if you’ve [...]
10 Practical Christmas Gifts for Travelers

10 Practical Christmas Gifts for Travelers

December 15, 2018
Inspiration
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Every December (without exception) me and my mother do the annual pre-Christmas standoff in which she insists she must buy me something, and I insist that she doesn’t. It’s not that I don’t appreciate her gifts, its just that the spare room in my parent's house looks like a graveyard of non travel-friendly items that have spent the last ten years gatheri[...]
Hotels We Love: Rhotia Valley Tented Lodge

Hotels We Love: Rhotia Valley Tented Lodge

May 13, 2016
Hotels, Tanzania
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Have you ever been to Heaven on Earth? I have: Well, actually this is of course a much more tangible place than Heaven. This is the Rhotia Valley Tented Lodge in northern Tanzania. After trying and failing to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro last June my dad and I treated ourselves to a luxurious getaway close to Ngorongoro Crater nature reserve and Serengeti Na[...]
Our top 10 Travelette-y Glamping Destinations

Our top 10 Travelette-y Glamping Destinations

May 2, 2016
Favs F, Off the beaten track, Top 10
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I love being outdoors, nature, hiking and everything that goes with it. Well all, except actual camping. I can manage for a night or two but I won't be very happy. There is something about sleeping in a tent on the floor or in a caravan that just makes me feel very uncomfortable and claustrophobic. Add to this having to walk through Hippo-infested areas in o[...]
Glamping in the Desert: 5 Cool Tent Camps

Glamping in the Desert: 5 Cool Tent Camps

December 21, 2014
Hotels, Off the beaten track
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Dry heat has never been my thing. Other than just about every person from Central Europe who I had this discussion with, I prefer the humid air of the rainforest over the arid climate of deserts. When I visited the Californian Death Valley a few years back and we took a short walk in a small canyon, the dry air made my lungs feel compressed, my body deprived[...]
A girl in the wild - The art of camping in heels

A girl in the wild - The art of camping in heels

July 4, 2014
Personal Stories, popular posts
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Remember this picture of me when Katja first introduced me as a new Travelette? I had just attempted my first ever official camping trip. Well, trip sounds a bit too grand, it was one weekend, but nevertheless I was proudly wearing my borrowed headlamp and drinking my pink champagne. The headlamp would be useless a few hours later as I was fumbling with the [...]
Top 5 Spots to Go Glamping in California

Top 5 Spots to Go Glamping in California

August 9, 2013
California, Off the beaten track, Places
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Glamping is one of those travel trends that sounds good & looks even better. It’s the thing to do if you’re a glamorous Travelette who sometimes likes to kick off her heels in a pretty tent cabin before heading out for an afternoon in the trees. We’ve previously shared some of our favorite places to go glamping in Australia, but we’re ready to take it ou[...]
Gypset travel - glamorous nomads

Gypset travel - glamorous nomads

August 7, 2013
Inspiration, Personal Stories, popular posts
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Being on perpetual holidays, barefoot and sun-kissed... Impossible? Not quite: there is a handful of people on this planet who seem to actually live this dream life, hopping from one sublime off-the-grid escape to another, on a permanent quest for the endless summer. Who are they? Members of what New York-based journalist Julia Chaplin calls the Gypset (a cr[...]
The Travelettes Guide to Camping

The Travelettes Guide to Camping

April 9, 2013
Countryside, Travel Tips, Travelettes Guide
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As much as I love camping it is very much a rather contradictory topic.To me it really is no more than some romantic illusion mostly shaped by dubious Tumblr photos: a blond girl with long wavy hair wrapped in colorful shawls, her skin is sunkissed. She’s barefoot but a beaded anklet decorates her right foot. At twilight she sits silently by the bonfire, sur[...]
Sleeping in trees - Free Spirit Spheres

Sleeping in trees - Free Spirit Spheres

March 17, 2013
British Colombia, Countryside, Hotels
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When I close my eyes and memorize my childhood, I remember climbing up on trees, sitting in a cozy tree house, looking out for squirrels to visit my new home, being totally at one with nature. I often thought back of those happy days before stumbling across a special hotel on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Finally my dream of a tree house could become true - [...]

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