Five Far-Off, Life-Changing Getaways

Looking to travel for beauty and adventure? Don't want to give up luxury?

Here are five destinations sure to please the hip, the romantic, the thrill-seeker and more without skimping on amenities, even in the middle of nowhere.

The Far-Off Chic Adventurer
Unchartered Africa's San Camp -- Kalahari Desert
Reason to Go: Six-star tent camp in world's most removed frontier

Its location couldn't be more remote, San Camp by Uncharted Africa -- owners of celebrity hotspot Jack's Camp -- unveils an all-new design along a reef palm oasis in the middle of the Makgadikgadi Pans and Kalahari Desert in Botswana.

Exotic animals like rare brown hyena and African aardvarks roam the great plain, offering one of the most romantic adventure experiences in the world. With no manmade structures and no human life, the beauty of the area is its sheer nothingness and what is perhaps the quietest and most untouched place on earth.

Unchartered Africa's San Camp: one of the world's most removed luxury safari camps

The luxury tent camp is constructed of antique safari tents from the 1940s arranged with nickel-bucket showers, wooden canopy beds and paraffin lamps. Uncharted Africa maintains luxury amentieis by sheer manpower as there is no electricity at any of its upscale retreats. But that simply means that luxury is built by human hand with five-star dining and silver-tray service that is never more than a nod away.

A mere six freestanding safari suites means exclusivity and high staff-guest ratio. All this while you roam the prehistoric lakebeds afoot and on all-terrain dune bikes looking for prehistoric antiquities and extinct fossils of animals like the giant zebra.