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Amazing home
Can you imagine living in the trees, at a height of over 30 meters?
But a group of people known as the Korowai tribe, do not need to strain your imagination. They have always lived in tree houses. On the island of New Guinea, in the southeastern part of Papua, this group of people is considered the first official tribe living in the trees.
This style of life they explain their mystical considerations. Although, in fact, the main cause of raised houses in the jungle is safety. Frequent floods, the buzz of insects, causing inconvenience to live at ground level. As a result of this, every man in the tribe, creating a house at the top of the trees.
But the tribe sees the construction of such housing, not only as a necessity for survival, for them to build a house, it is to be blessed. At the same time they do not have the cranes, construction machinery, which would facilitate their work. Everything is done by hand. Only a few tools that they use, and those still in the Stone Age.
Features Korowai tribe lives are the basis of the documentary BBC Human Planet («Planet of People"), which shows the extraordinary architectural and effort. At a height of 114 feet (about 35 meters) above ground level, the impressive structure of the house was built in two weeks.
The house also included a high ladder constructed specifically to reach the top. The floor and walls of the house were made from the bark of trees, and the roof is covered by a leaf. It's incredibly hard work that requires extraordinary effort.
But a group of people known as the Korowai tribe, do not need to strain your imagination. They have always lived in tree houses. On the island of New Guinea, in the southeastern part of Papua, this group of people is considered the first official tribe living in the trees.
This style of life they explain their mystical considerations. Although, in fact, the main cause of raised houses in the jungle is safety. Frequent floods, the buzz of insects, causing inconvenience to live at ground level. As a result of this, every man in the tribe, creating a house at the top of the trees.
But the tribe sees the construction of such housing, not only as a necessity for survival, for them to build a house, it is to be blessed. At the same time they do not have the cranes, construction machinery, which would facilitate their work. Everything is done by hand. Only a few tools that they use, and those still in the Stone Age.
Features Korowai tribe lives are the basis of the documentary BBC Human Planet («Planet of People"), which shows the extraordinary architectural and effort. At a height of 114 feet (about 35 meters) above ground level, the impressive structure of the house was built in two weeks.
The house also included a high ladder constructed specifically to reach the top. The floor and walls of the house were made from the bark of trees, and the roof is covered by a leaf. It's incredibly hard work that requires extraordinary effort.
