Barbecue fans, behold El Diablo Restaurant, an unusual eatery in Lanzarote, Spain that has a grill set atop an active volcano. There is no danger of the volcano erupting and blowing the place sky high, but the chefs do use the heat from it to cook the food. The grill has been in place since the 1970s, and leverages abundant volcanic heat to cook food. El Diablo Restaurant serves traditional Canary Islands cuisine.
Villa Escudero Resort is located in Quezon Province, Philippines, and it offers a vast hacienda filled with comfortable rooms, and a museum of curious things.
For a truly unique experience they offer an incredible Waterfalls Restaurant. Food is served as water cascades down a waterfall feed by a natural spring. The water flows across your feet as you dine from grass fringed buffet stations and bamboo dining tables serving up sumptuous local dishes.
Villa Escudero offers a range of overnight accommodations. There are large riverside cottages and apartment style units, each individually designed using indigenous materials like bamboo, anahaw leaves and coconut lumber.
Located in a small valley in Flims (Laax Falera), Switzerland, the POD Hotel is aimed to be a universal model for more sustainable tourism. The Pods are made of wood and easily assembled. It has basic amenities and are big enough to house two tourists and offer enough comfort and peace.
Located near the Swedish village of Harads, this UFO Treehotel is one of a kind. So far there are five unique tree rooms available and twenty-four planned to be built. The five tree rooms that are currently available for booking are the Cabin, the Mirrorcube, the Bird's Nest, the Blue Cone and the UFO. It ain't cheap at $600 a night, but isolation, a luxury treehouse, and UFOs should never come cheap.
Magic Mountain Lodge, is a beautifully constructed hotel on the privately owned natural reserve of Huilo Huilo in Chile. Covered in rainforest moss and vines, this manmade volcano-like structure spews water and is only accessible by a monkey bridge. And if this isn’t sufficiently magical and surreal, outside are hot tubs, carved from hollowed out tree trunks, with ideal vantage points for wildlife sightings.
A night at this hotel will cost you around $250 to $400 per night, but who can put a price on a once-in-a-lifetime experience like this?
If in Norway, Nissedal i Telemark, be sure to stay at the Canvas hotel. If you like mountain biking, outdoor baths and stunning scenery this is the place for you!
Canvas Hotel consists of 10 Mongolian yurts that form a yard around a kitchen and dining area. Each yurt is equipped with a wood-burning stove, sleeping place and bathtub.