But you won't see any at the next bothy: Greg's Hut on Cross Fell, Cumbria, is as remote a night's sleep as you can get in the UK.
Guests who hike to the top of Major's Dram Hut will cross through orchards and over rustic bridges, and can view a waterfall that cascades near the distillery.
I spent the night in the hut, then crossed through a penguin colony on my way back to Scott Base, and then travelled to the Victory Mountains.
RANERI, India — In this tiny village almost 400 miles southwest of New Delhi, where women wash dishes in the sand to conserve water, and electricity is scarce, Lakha Khan sat on the floor of a stone hut, legs crossed and white turban in place.
The building housing the ducks in this lush region of the Catskills in upstate Sullivan County was huge, a cross between a gigantic Quonset hut and an airplane hangar.
When the notion finally became reality, in 2002, it grew to include not just the land, deep in the Inyo National Forest, but a comfortable place to spend time — a cross between a European-style mountain hut and a classic American frontier cabin: two stories; a sleeping area upstairs; kitchen, dining and socializing downstairs; solar power; and steel shutters to keep out the weather and the bears.
If you want another puzzle, add this: that the writer was never happier than when, during the Second World War, he was stationed in the desolate Aleutians, sharing life and a Quonset hut with a cross-section of rough humanity, some of whom called him Pop and revered him.
Later, as the surviving ponies were crossing the sea ice near Hut Point, the ice broke up.
Mbalageti Serengeti is a collection of tented chalets (a cross between a wood-and-stone hut and a fancy tent, with a thatch roof).
"Hey Tiger, would you give me a little chance for once," he said as the pair crossed paths outside the scorer's hut.
ABYEI, Sudan — There is a place in Sudan where Africa and the Arab world meet, where one thatched roof hut carries a roughly-hewn cross at the top and next door an identical hut flaunts a crescent moon, where heavily armed nomads sweep in for raids and heavily armed villagers fight back.
