Samkani Camp is now open for bookings ahead of welcoming its first guests on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni in December 2027.
The camp, an A&K Sanctuary, is built entirely with Airstreams: five architect-designed suites and a sixth that houses the lounge, bar and dining room.
Newly released renders give the first look inside, showing interiors that take their colours and materials from the landscape around them.
The first two suites and the lounge and dining Airstream open in December 2027. The remaining three suites follow in February 2028.
Each suite is a 10-metre Airstream rebuilt from the shell inwards. Polished aluminium walls curve overhead beneath a timber lattice ceiling and a woven panel in rust and sand tones frames the bed.
The palette of terracotta, leather and deep Andean blue draws on the volcanoes along the Salar’s edge.
Interiors are by Studio Ibsen, led by architect Adriana Granato, whose work on A&K Sanctuary’s Pure Amazon riverboat brought the same attention to material and place to the Peruvian Amazon.
Beds can be made up as a queen or as twins and a sofa can sleep one child. Each suite has its own bathroom with a shower and double vanity.
Heating, air conditioning and electric blankets keep things comfortable at 3,650 metres, where nights regularly fall below freezing.
Starlink Wi-Fi, a stocked minibar and a tablet with destination information come as standard. Every suite opens onto a private wooden deck, set up for evenings spent looking at the sky.
Menus are built around Bolivia’s native ingredients and cooking traditions. Wines come from the vineyards of Tarija, among the highest in the world, alongside local specialties such as singani, mocochinchi, quinoa beer and coca and muña teas.
A private guide and driver accompany each suite’s guests throughout the stay, building each day around their interests and a sensible pace at altitude.
After dark, the camp turns its attention to some of the clearest skies on earth. With high altitude, dry air and almost no light pollution, the Milky Way can be seen in remarkable detail.
Samkani Camp is now available to book through A&K or a travel adviser and can be included in tailormade itineraries and Small Group Journeys across wider Bolivia and Latin America, from La Paz and Lake Titicaca to Machu Picchu, the Atacama Desert and Patagonia.
Rates start from $US2,000 (approx. $AU2,900) per person per night, with a minimum stay of two nights and three recommended.
Images courtesy A&K Sanctuary
