Landscape Hotels of South America
South America holds some of the most surreal and shape-shifting landscapes on Earth, a continent where ecosystems shift in broad strokes and the wild feels both ancient and immediate. From the world’s largest tropical rainforest to the planet’s driest desert, the scale alone is astonishing. The Amazon stretches like a living artery across nine countries, its canopy hiding rivers wider than cities and a biodiversity so layered it feels almost mythical. Jaguars move through flooded forests, pink river dolphins slip through tea-coloured waters, and macaws erupt across the sky in bursts of colour.
Travel south and the terrain transforms into a paradox of extremes. The Atacama Desert rises in otherworldly forms, all salt flats, copper-coloured valleys, and lunar horizons carved by wind rather than rain. Here, geysers hiss at dawn, flamingos feed in high-altitude lagoons, and nights open into some of the darkest, clearest skies on the planet. Further north and east, Brazil’s coastline softens into palm-lined beaches and warm shallows, while Uruguay and Argentina mix rugged stretches with windswept dunes where ocean, sand, and sky collapse into a single palette.
Then there is Patagonia, South America’s raw, untamed south, where the landscape feels almost sculpted by the elements. Glaciers crack open blue as ancient ice meets the sun, granite towers rise like guardians over vast steppes, and winds sweep across lakes that shift from turquoise to steel. Guanacos roam the plains, condors hover over cliffs, and pumas move in the quiet margins. It is a region where wilderness still carries a sense of purity, where nature dictates rhythm and scale. Together, the Amazon, the Atacama, and Patagonia along with the continent’s beaches, rainforests, lagoons and dunes create a mosaic of landscapes unmatched anywhere else in the world: wild, surreal, and endlessly transformative.
Across these worlds, Room + Wild stays open a doorway into each landscape, placing you inside the terrain and allowing you to experience the continent in its most authentic, elemental form.
Photo by Estancia Santa Cruz
Photo by Estancia Santa Cruz
Photo by Estancia Santa Cruz
Estancia Santa Cruz, Uruguay: Lagoons and Atlantic Drift
Tucked between the calm mirror of a coastal lagoon and the long, wind-shaped curve of Uruguay’s Atlantic shoreline, Estancia Santa Cruz embodies the country’s quiet, elemental beauty. Horses graze through dune grasses, migratory birds skim the water’s surface, and evenings fall in wide bands of color across open sky. Here, the landscape feels unhurried and expansive, a place where wetlands, beach, and pasture braid together into a soft and timeless horizon.
Photo by Kenoa Beach Resort
Kenoa Beach Resort, Brazil: Edge of the Wild Atlantic
Kenoa sits on Brazil’s northeastern coast where emerald Atlantic waters meet the protected dunes and rainforest of Barra de São Miguel. It is a landscape of warm tides, shifting sands, and dense coastal vegetation alive with birdlife. Suites open directly to the ocean’s changing moods, from gentle morning light to the powerful surf that rolls in after dark. Kenoa’s setting is pure sensory immersion in salt air, tropical forest, and the endless pull of the sea.
Photo by Las Islas
Photo by Las Islas
Las Islas, Colombia: The Caribbean Archipelago
Set across the Rosario and Barú islands, Las Islas places you inside one of Colombia’s most biodiverse marine environments. Wooden bungalows perch above turquoise water or nestle deep within mangroves and jungle, where monkeys leap between branches and reef fish flash just below the surface. The islands feel suspended between sky and sea, moving to the slow rhythm shaped by tide, coral, and lush Caribbean greenery. This is the ocean as a living world, not a backdrop.
Photo by UXUA
Photo by UXUA
Photo by UXUA
UXUA Casa Hotel and Spa, Brazil: Rainforest and Shoreline of Trancoso
UXUA sits within Trancoso’s coastal rainforest where red clay cliffs, Atlantic jungle, and wide, golden beaches converge. Days move between shaded garden pathways, the soft expanse of the Quadrado, and the tidal rhythms of the Bahian coastline. The landscape here is intimate, filled with hummingbird wings, rustling palms, and long tidal flats, yet it holds a deep cultural and natural heritage that enriches every corner of Trancoso’s wild edges.
Cristalino Lodge by Edson Endrigo
Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Brazil: The Amazon Interior
In the southern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Cristalino Jungle Lodge is surrounded by a private reserve of immense ecological richness. Towering canopy trees, blackwater rivers, and labyrinths of forest trails define the experience. Guests climb tall observation towers to watch macaws, toucans, and spider monkeys move through a living mosaic of green. This is the rainforest at its most pristine, where biodiversity feels both delicate and endless.
Experience by Awasi Atacama
Awasi Atacama, Chile: The High Desert
On the edge of San Pedro de Atacama, Awasi sits within the world’s driest desert, a place shaped by lunar valleys, salt flats, geysers, and red-rock canyons carved by wind. The landscape is a lesson in extremes, with cobalt skies, scorched earth, pastel dawns, and star-filled nights of astonishing clarity. Silence becomes part of the terrain, and every excursion by foot, horseback, or 4x4 feels like crossing into another planet.
Photo by Awasi, Federico Garcia
Photo by Awasi
Awasi Patagonia, Chile: Glaciers and Wind-Carved Wilderness
Awasi Patagonia rests within a private reserve overlooking the granite peaks of Torres del Paine where glaciers descend into turquoise lakes and winds sculpt vast stretches of pampa. Wildlife moves freely across this protected landscape including guanacos, foxes, condors, and the elusive puma. Villas are positioned like quiet shelters on the steppe, giving guests uninterrupted views of one of the world’s last true frontiers.
Photo by Awasi
Photo by Awasi
Awasi Iguazú, Argentina: Waterfalls and Atlantic Forest
Hidden within the dense, emerald Atlantic Forest, Awasi Iguazú sits minutes from one of the most powerful waterfalls on Earth. The jungle hums with toucans, coatis, and capuchin monkeys, and red-earth trails lead to rivers, pools, and archaeological sites reclaimed by nature. Water shapes everything here: mist that rises from the falls, tributaries that weave through the greenery, and the rainforest itself thriving in constant motion.
Fazenda Moreias by Thiago Diz
Fazenda Moreias by Thiago Diz
Fazenda Moreias by Thiago Diz
Fazenda Moreias, Brazil: Dunes, Ocean and Lagoon
Along Brazil’s remote northeastern coastline, Fazenda Moreias lies where rolling dunes descend into the Atlantic and a crystalline lagoon mirrors the sky. The landscape is sculptural with pale sand, blue water, palm clusters, and a horizon that seems to move with the wind. Days unfold between dune hikes, lagoon swims, and the slow pulse of the ocean, offering a rare combination of vastness and tranquility.
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