Give one of these traditional hotels a try on your next trip:

• Hotel Herberg de Emauspoort in Delft, Holland, offers Gypsy caravans furnished as guest rooms
• Alta Friluftspark in northern Norway offers “lavvos”, the traditional tents used by Sami reindeer herders
• In Malaysian Borneo stay in a “longhouse”, the traditional home of headhunters of yore
• Near Gisourne, New Zealand, join the Maoris for a night in a “marae” meeting house
• In the Gobi Desert of Mongolia sleep in a traditional felt tent known locally as a yurt