The Lost Treehouse Tribes of the Rainforest Until 1970, they were unaware of the existence of any people on Earth besides themselves. Hard to believe with such extensive views from their 140 foot high tree dwellings, but when you’re living in one of the least explored jungles in the world, these things can happen. The indigenous Korowai tribe have been building their towering tree houses probably long before we ever had sky scrapers, on the isolated island of New Guinea, part of Papua in the Indonesian Rainforest. Built in Banyan or Wanbom trees which serve as the main pole with smaller poles added at the corners of the house for support, they are constructed not with load-bearing machinery but rather using the most basic, almost prehistoric of tools and with the expert climbing skills of the Korowai. The tree houses often accommodate as many as a dozen people along with all sorts of family pets. In the harsh environment of the rainforest, being so high up allows the tribe to escape the often unbearable swarm of mosquito below that could be carrying diseases such as malaria. The tree houses also protect the tribe from flooding and amongst them, they believe that high up in the trees, they are safer from evil spirits (or neighbors with a bone to pick).
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:05:01 +0000
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