Catch You On The Sunny Side
Everyone is eagerly wondering when their next overseas vacation will be. While we wait until it’s safe to travel again, L’Officiel Hommes has scoured the globe and listed these exceptional stays for reboot that worth adding to your bucket list because more than ever, solitude is what travellers are looking forward to get away – properly. BY NAWAF RAHMAN
CAMP SARIKA BY AMANGIRI, UTAH, USA
in. Sarika delivers the glorious sense of seclusion that comes with pitching a tent in the middle of nowhere, plus the nightly bonfires, s’mores, storytelling, and acoustic guitar sessions you might expect with that. But the pavilions, each with a private plunge pool for sunset dips and telescopes for counting Saturn’s rings, not to mention the camp’s communal spa and restaurant and bar (plus access to all of Amangiri’s bells and whistles), make the experience more akin to a stay at an exclusive mini retreat than even the most elevated form of glamping, let alone camping. On-site activities like outdoor meditation, hiking, and rock climbing deep-sync guests with the landscape, and Lake Powell, as well as five national parks (including Bryce, Zion, and Grand Canyon), is an easy day trip. If space and privacy are indeed the new luxury, Sarika delivers it in spades – along with plenty of the old-fashioned kind.
Over the past three decades, high-end resort group Aman has perfected a formula at its 32 hotels across 20 countries – generous rooms, invisible service, and complete privacy – that is exactly what luxury travellers are looking for during these strange times. Its newest endeavour, in remote southern Utah, applies those principles to a new model: a year-round tented camp. Located down the juniper-and-wild-sage-scented road from Aman’s iconic Amangiri property and surrounded by 600 acres of high desert in the Colorado Basin, Camp Sarika consists of 10 one- and two-bedroom tented pavilions. Even when both properties reach full capacity (110 guests between them), there will be no shortage of striated slot canyons, 165-million-yearold sandstone formations, or flat-topped mesas to get lost 134
