Pampered Campers Go 'Glamping'

It's hard to believe anyone could actually enjoy camping. Hard ground, burnt coffee and bug-filled bathrooms.

That's why "glamping" is so much better. Linen sheets, gourmet food and deep soaking tubs. That's more like it. Jump in the Porsche Cayenne and go.

The Resort at Paws Up, Montana; Greenough, Montana.

In the backdrop of the Garnet Mountain Range overlooking the Blackfoot River Valley that Lewis and Clark "swooned over" is The Resort at Paws Up. Located on over 37,000 acres of land, this resort is to camping what Air Force One is to commercial aviation. Visitors choose between glamorous accommodations including Tent City and River Camp, a decadent experience composed of a freestanding canvas community complete with butler service and personal chef. The camps include canopied dining rooms and sleeping tents outfitted with carpeted floors, fluffy duvets and handmade furnishings that lend an uber-lux Rocky Mountain flair.

The Resort at Paws Up in Montana is home to North America's poshest tent camp.

The Paws experience is personally tailored to each guest and family. The more adventurous spend their days among surrounding streams with world-class fly-fishing, rappelling local cliffs and whitewater rafting along local rapids. Those looking for a more relaxed encounter choose between clay shooting, horseback excursions and jet skiing nearby Seeley Lake. Aside from campfire dining, the main resort is home to a western-style gourmet and tented Spa Town with massage rooms and treatment suites arranged along an outdoor boardwalk under a pine tree canopy.

Lion Sands Game Reserve; Sabi Sands, South Africa.

A two-hour flight from Johannesburg and you're in descent to the dirt airstrip of Lion Sands Resort in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve in South Africa. A well-polished artillery of refurbished Land Rovers plow over the plain as if you're the African King, returning to the 1933 Lodge where four freestanding wood-and-glass suites offer panoramic views of the bushy plain. Between your bubble bath in the egg-shaped tub and cooling outdoor shower, you suddenly realize this isn't really camping.