Kruger Shalati: The Train Hotel Over Sabie Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2020
For several years, it was possible to hop into a train at Komatipoort, on the South Africa-Mozambique border, and ride through the wildern...
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The Turkish Hotel Built Above an Ancient Ruin
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2020
In 2009, a construction crew digging the foundation for a new hotel in Antakya, Turkey, made an astonishing discovery. They uncovered a va...
The Australian Floating Hotel That Ended Up in North Korea
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 24, 2019
For little more than a year in the late 1980s, a seven-story five-star hotel floated over John Brewer Reef, about 70 km off the coast of Tow...
Hotel Belvédère: The Iconic Swiss Hotel on The Edge of The Rhone Glacier
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2018
Located in one of the snowiest regions in Switzerland, the Furka Pass, connecting the cantons of Uri and Valais in the country’s south-centr...
Corippo: The Village That Wants to Become a Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2018
The tiny mountain village of Corippo, perched on the Swiss Alps, is much more than a village. It is an autonomous municipality with its own ...
Richardson Olmsted Complex: A Historic Insane Asylum Turned Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2018
The Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo, the United States, is a modern name for the Buffalo State Hospital, which itself was originally c...
The 30,000 Keys of Baldpate Inn
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2018
In 1913, American novelist Earl Derr Biggers penned a comedic mystery novel titled “Seven Keys to Baldpate”, that became so famous that it i...
The Abandoned Hotels of Kupari
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2017
Affixed to the wall near the city gate in the town of Dubrovnik on Croatia’s beautiful Dalmatian Coast, is a map showing the scale of damage...
The Mega Hotels of Mecca
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2017
A mammoth new hotel is rising in Saudi Arabia’s holy city Mecca. When completed it will have 10,000 rooms spanning more than 1.4 million squ...
The Squatters of Grande Hotel Beira
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2017
You might not know this, but Mozambique is one of the fastest growing tourist destination in the world. Its wild beauty and untamed nature h...
The Japanese Hotel Staffed By Robots
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2017
In the last few weeks, we have been hearing a lot about how robots have been replacing human workers across industries in developed countrie...
Would You Live in a Luxury Resort That Was Once a Concentration Camp?
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
That’s the question angered family members of those who were imprisoned at a sea fort in the Adriatic Sea is asking, when the government app...
‘Book and Bed’ is a Bookstore Themed Hostel in Tokyo
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2015
Have you ever wished you could stay at a bookstore, reading books all night long, after all the other patrons have left? If you are visiting...
Alila Jabal Akhdar Resort in Oman
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2015
The Alila Jabal Akhdar Resort is located in the heart of Jabal Akhdar, more than 2,000 meters up and isolated in Al Hajar Mountains range in...
Pop-up Sandcastle Hotels Open in the Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
You may have heard about those temporary ice hotels that Sweden, Norway and some of those near-Arctic-circle countries put up during the win...
Noorderlicht: The Ice-bound Ship Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2015
Noorderlicht, or Northern Lights in Dutch, is a two-masted schooner that spends the summer taking tourists around the Arctic region, particu...
Jumbo Hostel: Stockholm’s Airplane Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 4, 2014
On a disused runway at Arlanda Airport near Stockholm, in Sweden stands a decommissioned 747-200 jetliner. After having served numerous airl...
Radisson Blu Iveria: A Luxury Hotel That Became a Refugee Camp
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2014
The Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel is located at the center of Georgia’s capital city Tbilisi. Built in 1967, it was Georgia’s finest hotel and a...
A Glass Bottomed Hotel Bedroom in Bali
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2014
Who wants to sleep with the fishes? But shrimps is another story. Set over a freshwater shrimp pond, Udang House, also known as the Shrimp H...
Paso Internacional Los Libertadores
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2014
Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, also called Cristo Redentor, is a mountain pass in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. It is the mai...
