The Happy Nest treehouse Bungalow in Our Jungle House at Khao Sok National park Thailand.
To be right in the jungle, but not really in the Jungle.
This is what I love about the “Happy Nest” treehouse room in Our Jungle Guesthouse, Khao Sok National Park Southern Thailand. What I mean is that you open your eyes in the morning, roll over and look out the window to big broadleaf jungle vegetation but not have to trek through it, battle leeches, brush off stinging plants or in fact do anything but drink it in.
Just lying in bed you tune your ears into the river running over the pebbles as it under carves the wall of the the limestone Karst bang in your face just 50 metres away. Step onto your balcony and this modernistic work of art reveals its different beuties with the changing light accross the day. White caltrate gives the wall a ghostly look. Big black lichen smudges make the wall look like a Pro Hart major canvass with thick and gloopy moss adorned stalagnites responding to gravity in an unusually seductive way.
Loving the Limestone art
The point is you are in a comfortable cabin, midway between the ground and a canopy in a rare lowland rainforest – but comfortable – bed , deck chairs, lounging benches.
It feels unusual to not need to go and trek. It’s already all around you.
The Happy Nest is the newest of Our Jungle House’s tree houses.
Two stories high, it sleeps 7 and is perfect for families or those people who just like a lot of space.
And pleasingly its given up the idea of attaching houses to the surrounding trees and simply elevating the buildings on termite proof concret poles aomgst them.
There’s the older but more intimate Romance trehouse next door; then the stargazer, the half moon, all on the prized river front limestone cliff viewing stretch of the river.
The rooms are comortable and intentionally non inclusive of air conditioning, and televisions which would be a major detraction if you could here you’re neighbours consuming this noisy form of electricty.
To be able to just sit and hear the sounds of nature – crickets in the trees, water babbling by, monkeys throwing rainforest fruits onto the roof of your treehouse is priceless.
I relcutantly write this blog on my computer feeling like I am betraying nature by bringing electronics into the experience.
Rustic Treehouse Ambience
These photos capture just a little the feel of being suberbly comfoftable in the jungle.
