Tayka Hotel De Sal
Where:Tahua, Bolivia
Howmuch: About $95 anight
Whyit's cool: You've stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That'ssomething few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—includingthe beds (though you'll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets)．The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni,a prehistoric driedup lake that's the world's biggest salt flat. Builders usethe salt from the 4,633squaremile flat to make the bricks, and glue themtogether with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain startsto dissolve the hotel, the owners justmix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.
Green Magic Nature Resort
Where:Vythiri, India
Howmuch: About $240 anight
Whyit's cool: Ridding a pulley(滑轮)operatedlift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As youlook out of your open window—there is no glass！—youwatch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test yourfear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of thehotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don't even have to comedown for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulleydrawn “elevator”．
Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
Where:Cottonwood, Idaho
Howmuch: $92 a night
Whyit's cool: This doghouse isn't just for the family pet. Sweet_Willyis a 30foottall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairsbeside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the mainbedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willy's head, or hang out inside hisnose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is alsoa toilet in the 12foottall fire hydrant outside.
Gamirasu Cave Hotel
Where:Ayvali, Turkey
Howmuch: Between $130 and $475 anight.
Whyit's cool: This is cave! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, whenpeople lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay willbe much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from amodern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool,about 65℉insummer.(Don't worry—there is heat in winter.)
