{"id":6589,"date":"2015-08-11T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:00:10","slug":"tree-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/tree-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible tree-houses and canopy walkways"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do have the Calvino’s Baron in the trees, the Burroughs’ Tarzan and an Orangutan in common ? Quite
\nsimple! They all live in a forest<\/strong> or, better, above a forest!<\/p>\n

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Treehouse of Korowai Tribe<\/div><\/div>\n

They all live among the shades of any kind of trees<\/strong>! Does this perspective seem a bit unusual for you? You just need a look to your hands to reconsider everything from another point of view!\u00a0Actually your thumb didn’t evolve for sliding web pages on the screen of your smartphone! Our thumb has evolved for allowing us to grasp branches! So, life on trees<\/strong> is literally embedded in our history and in our genomes even though we seem to have forgotten this fact when we are buried in the grey tree simulacrums that are so common in our modern cities.<\/p>\n

However, hope is not completely vanished because around the world we still find people that decided for necessity, job or simply for passion to recover their branches, pardon their roots! Let’s start from the deep jungles<\/strong> of the New Guinea<\/strong>, in the South East of Irian Jaya, where the Korowai tribe is used\u00a0to build their houses at the tops of high trees.<\/p>\n

This tradition was developed for avoiding a neighbouring tribe of dangerous head-hunters, the Citak.\u00a0These constructions are really amazing and are usually built on more than one tree but sometimes the\u00a0backbone is even a single tree!<\/p>\n

Their height varies from 6 to 12 meters, in some cases the houses reach 35 meters<\/strong> above the ground. These ones are real green skyscrapers<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

But the upper part of the rainforest is not only a vertiginous shelter for humans but also a real treasure of biodiversity<\/strong>. In fact the canopy of trees represents the biologically richest place of the rainforest and, on the other hand, the most inaccessible one.<\/p>\n

Scientists from all over the world are trying to find new fantastic ways for the exploration of this unexpected last frontier. Nowadays the canopy study can rely even on hot balloons and inflatable platforms that can be softly laid on the big green roof of the jungle. Beside these more flashy strategies of studying trees there are also some more traditional ones, for example the canopy walkways.<\/p>\n

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Santa Elena Skywalk in Costarica<\/div><\/div>\n

Some of these impressive structures have gained momentum as ecoturism attraction. Famous walkways are the first to be built for these reasons at the Lamington National Park<\/strong> in Australia (180 meters long a and 36 high) and others in the Dhliza Forest<\/strong> in South Africa, at the Taman Negara National Park<\/strong> in Malaysia and also at the Kakum National Park<\/strong> in Ghana.<\/p>\n

Even in some botanical garden such as the Atlanta Botanical Garden it is possible to find these kind of structures. These are all ways of living on trees suited for people that like discovery and adventure.<\/p>\n

However, tree life can be even something more: life on a tree<\/strong> can be comfortable! And if the perspective of building your own, real, functional tree house sounds to you a bit too extreme or maybe expensive, don’t give up!<\/p>\n

On treehousemap<\/a><\/strong> you can find a very useful map that shows the location of the most stunning tree house hotels on the entire globe! You should start the research,\u00a0maybe\u00a0starting with these ecofriendly tree houses\u00a0in Italy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Treehouse in Italy, La Piantata, Viterbo<\/div><\/div>\n

So, in the end, you will have understood that the human kind, born on the trees, is also capable of coming back sometimes and it is quite beautiful to see how and with how much fantasy people can do that!<\/p>\n

Cover image:\u00a0Aerial view of a recently abandoned tree house, in Korowai country,\u00a050 meters tall.<\/em><\/p>\n

You might also like:<\/h4>\n

3 amazing tree houses (and hotels) in Italy<\/a><\/h4>\n

Live on a tree house<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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