It is located on the European shore of the Bosporus between Besiktas and Ortakoy in Istanbul, Turkey. The palace is made of marble and spans an area of more than 80,000 square meters. The hotel is within walking distance to nearby Ortakoy, which has many shops, parks, and gardens, cafes and restaurants. The palace, replacing an earlier wooden palace, had been built in 1871 for Sultan Abdulaziz by court architect Serkis Balyan.
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If you are looking for the perfect Eco retreat this has to be your place. The Hotelito Desconocido is a heaven for nature lovers on the midst of a huge bird and turtle reserve in the wetlands, between the sierra Madre Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. There is a touch of magic in the air, as guests are rowed from the main hotel’s lodge across the estuary to their beachside huts, where cacti poke out of the sand.
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Few places can boasts about of solitude like the wild panoramas of Patagonia, near the southern tip of South America, where the treeless uninhabitable steppes roll out interminably, and the silence is broken only by the wind. For visitors preferring white coon and soft blankets, there is no finer perch from which to contemplate the Patagonian wilderness than Eolo.
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Many travelers visit Argentina‘s Iguazu Falls, an unbelievable quantity of water roaring over a vast chasm, but few explore the magnificent nearby forest. Just 96 km above the falls, where the Iguazu River flows wide and calm, five cabins that make up Yacutinga Lodge are hidden within pristine rain forest, thick with lianas and bromeliads.
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Cabo Polonio is the hippie ideal! Spanning miles of the rugged coastline for which Uruguay is justly renowned, this protected nature sanctuary is one of the best-kept secrets in South America: a heaven for locals looking for unspoiled beauty and tranquility amid sea lions colonies and rolling sand dunes. Photos by: afarinasso
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A stunning seventeenth-century colonial harbor town on Brazil‘s Costa Verde, Paraty is a perfectly preserved UNESCO World Heritage site. Paraty meaning ”river of fish” in the Tupi language, was founded in 1667. The town’s growth was based on its location at the end of the Gold Trail connecting Rio and Europe to the gold mines in Minas Gerais by the sea. Photo by: Rodrigo_Soldon
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On the edge of a small fishing village in the heart of a natural park, Picinguaba Pousada is a relaxing hotel in a former colonial mansion run by unpretentious Brazilian couple. It sits on the stunning Costa Verde (green coast), a UNESCO World Heritage Site full of spectacular landscapes. Photo by: Jacada Travel
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When you wake up in Corumbau and decide it would be nice to walk the length of the private beach, you better make sure you take some water with you because this is no ordinary resort beach. It stretches for more than a mile along the Bahia coastline with another 5 miles of uninhabited beaches on either side. There is a coral reef breaking just offshore, and you can dive its aquamarine waters and come face-to-face with the plant life. Photo by: Fabio Said
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Fernando de Noronha is one of Earth’s peerless places. It was a stop on Charles Darwin’s famous 1839 Beagle expedition, become a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001 (with nearby Rocas Atoll), and is one of Brazil‘s top scuba-diving spots, with spectacular flora and fauna. Its environmental fragility means it is monitored by Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency. Visitors are limited to 700 a day, and Fernando de Noronha‘s sixteen beaches are kept immaculate with clear waters giving visibility of up to 50 m. Photo by: alexrobinsonlightbox
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Gisele Bundchen and Leonardo DiCaprio have laid their heads on the soft linen pillows in Cusco’s Hotel Monasterio, one of the luxury properties at the vanguard of South America‘s style revolution. Converted from a sixteenth-century monastery and build around a cloistered courtyard, the Monasterio has an ambience of calm efficiency. Gregorian chants accompany the serene breakfast buffet, a private chapel is at your disposal, and the bath butler service offers a soak fit for an Andean princess. Photo by: thejennyallen
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