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Natura Vive's three Skylodge Adventure suites in Peru are suspended 1,300 feet in the air above a lovely valley.Caters News Agency
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Ready for a true adventure? As long as you don’t suffer from vertigo or acrophobia, sleeping in a hotel suspended above a valley should suffice.

To get to Natura Vive’s three sky-high Skylodge Adventure suites near the Peruvian village of Cusco, guests have to strap on some hiking boots, gloves and a helmet in order to climb a steel ladder up a 1,300-foot-tall rocky cliff face, part of the Andes mountain range.

Luckily, there’s a safety rope attached to you via carabiner. Apparently, an alternative to the ladder is a hike-and-zip-line route, which sounds only marginally less strenuous. Since you’re scaling the sides of the Sacred Valley, perhaps divine intervention will prevent injuries.

A three-hour slog brings you up to Skylodge’s cozy pods, which are made of aluminum and polycarbonate and measure 24 feet in length and 8 feet in height and width.

Each capsule has four beds, a dining area and a shared bathroom. Compensate for a rustic toilet with a stellar view, since the walls and ceiling of these suites are transparent. Inside, four lamps and a reading light are all powered by solar panels.

For the particularly brave, there’s an open-air seating area on top of each polyhedron.

There’s no way to order room service, as servers would have a pretty tough time scaling the mountain, so meals are all included.

On TripAdvisor and Airbnb, guests rave about the experience, even those who initially had jitters.

These “condor’s nests” — oh, and you’ll see plenty of those feathered friends up there — opened in the summer of 2013. Current rates start at $289 per night, including transportation from a Cusco hotel, guides, equipment, a snack for the ascent, dinner with wine and breakfast.

And since those three pods have a total capacity of eight people, intrepid travelers had better get a move on.

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