Maria Shollenbarger for The Financial Times UK uncovers four great camping adventures worldwide – sleeping under canvas at the edge of the wild, from Bhutan to Mexico via Australia and the Okavango Delta. 

Australia: Sal Salis, Ningaloo Reef

“Early riserscan accompany a guide into the canyons that mark the bluffs miles inland; inMandu Mandu Gorge, you might spot a tiny, shy, endangered black-footed rockwallaby. Fearless swimmers can get in the water with whale sharks, when theseason’s right. But all year round it’s the place itself that amazes. The setting ispure Crusoe, the only sounds those of wind, birds, and wavelets kissing coralsands” says Maria.

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