5 places to try glamping – and why you should try

2014′s world of travel features more options for accommodation than ever before.Want to stay in an igloo? Norway, Finland, and Canada all offer chances to do just that. An authentic Mongolian yurt? Yep, that’s available in a few places across Mongolia. Glamping, however, is a whole new thing altogether.

When I first heard of glamping – glamorous camping -it came off as sounding a bit pretentious. Camping, of course, has long been arustic retreat from reality – the sort of thing urbanites do to...