Rajasthan, India

Experience a night in a Rajasthani-style adobe hut at this quirky hotel on the outskirts of Mandawa town in Shekhawati. Decorated with traditional rice-flour mandana patterns, its thatched, mud-walled cottages are as pretty as a picture, and fitted with modern amenities such as marble-lined bathrooms and air-con.

Mirror-inlaid molding and hand-woven local textiles provide the décor. Meals are made with ingredients straight out of the hotel’s own organic garden and in-house dairy.