A curated directory
Sleep in the jungle.
The world's most extraordinary jungle Airbnbs — treehouses, bamboo houses and rainforest villas — found, vetted and mapped across 11 destinations.
The world's most extraordinary jungle Airbnbs — treehouses, bamboo houses and rainforest villas — found, vetted and mapped across 11 destinations.
Airbnb has thousands of places that call themselves "jungle". A few dozen of them are the real thing — architecture in the canopy, rivers below the bedroom, monkeys on the roofline. We find those.
Every stay in this directory was pulled from the noise by hand. We check that it's genuinely in the forest, genuinely well built, and genuinely bookable. Then we tell you what it actually costs, what it's actually like, and what to know before you commit a week of your life to it. No listings are paid placements.
The directory covers four continents
The easiest serious jungle on earth — sloths over breakfast, surf twenty minutes away.
6 stays Explore Costa Rica
Two different jungles: the Amazon's flooded forests, and the Mata Atlântica falling straight into the sea.
6 stays Explore Brazil
Nowhere else builds like this — five-story bamboo houses over river gorges, for the price of a city hotel room.
6 stays Explore Bali
Low, dense Maya jungle riddled with cenotes — swim in a cave before lunch, ruins before dinner.
6 stays Explore Tulum & the Maya Jungle
The only tropical rainforest in the US national forest system, no passport required for Americans.
6 stays Explore Puerto Rico
Banyans, bamboo groves and blackwater swamps — the jungle hiding inside the United States.
6 stays Explore Florida
Fern forests growing on fresh lava — the youngest jungle on the planet, and it feels like it.
6 stays Explore Hawai‘i
Jungle two ways: limestone island rainforest over turquoise water, or misty mountain forest up north.
6 stays Explore Thailand
Lowland Amazon, river dolphins and Andean cloud forest, mostly reached by motorized canoe and sold as multi-day packages.
6 stays Explore Peru
Four very different forests, from Amazon river lodges to Minca treehouses to Pacific cabins where the jungle runs into the sea.
6 stays Explore Colombia
Wet-zone rainforest, misty tea-estate hill country and dry-zone forest, with two monsoons that run on opposite calendars.
6 stays Explore Sri Lanka
The one that started Bali's bamboo-house boom. A two-storey house built almost entirely of bamboo, sitting beside a small river in Selat, East Bali, at the foot of Mount Agung — about 90 minutes' drive from Ubud. Downstairs is an open-air living space with a hammock, bean bags an…
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