Sleep in the jungle.
The world's most extraordinary jungle stays — treehouses, bamboo houses, cabins and rainforest lodges — found, vetted and mapped across 17 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 five continents
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0Where the jungle is.
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0Costa Rica
The easiest serious jungle on earth — sloths over breakfast, surf twenty minutes away.
6 stays Explore Costa Rica
Photo: Deni Williams from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY 2.0Brazil
Two different jungles: the Amazon's flooded forests, and the Mata Atlântica falling straight into the sea.
6 stays Explore Brazil
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0Bali
Nowhere else builds like this — five-story bamboo houses over river gorges, for the price of a city hotel room.
6 stays Explore Bali
Photo: edenpictures, CC BY 2.0Tulum & the Maya Jungle
Low, dense Maya jungle riddled with cenotes — swim in a cave before lunch, ruins before dinner.
6 stays Explore Tulum & the Maya Jungle
Photo: Jami430, CC BY-SA 4.0Puerto Rico
The only tropical rainforest in the US national forest system, no passport required for Americans.
6 stays Explore Puerto Rico
Photo: Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0Florida
Banyans, bamboo groves and blackwater swamps — the jungle hiding inside the United States.
6 stays Explore Florida
Photo: AlaskaDave, CC BY-SA 3.0Hawai‘i
Fern forests growing on fresh lava — the youngest jungle on the planet, and it feels like it.
6 stays Explore Hawai‘i
Photo: Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0Thailand
Jungle two ways: limestone island rainforest over turquoise water, or misty mountain forest up north.
6 stays Explore Thailand
Photo: Ivan Mlinaric, CC BY 2.0Peru
Lowland Amazon, river dolphins and Andean cloud forest, mostly reached by motorized canoe and sold as multi-day packages.
6 stays Explore Peru
Photo: Shallodarns, CC BY-SA 4.0Colombia
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
Sri Lanka
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
Photo: Laslovarga, CC BY-SA 3.0NewBelize
More than half the country is forest, the ruins still wear their canopy, and the treehouses sit on real rivers.
7 stays Explore Belize
Photo: Aaron O'Dea, CC BY-SA 3.0NewPanama
Caribbean island jungle in Bocas del Toro, cloud forest in Boquete, and sloths in the trees of the capital.
6 stays Explore Panama
Photo: nearsjasmine, CC BY-SA 2.0NewEcuador
Mindo's cloud forest is two hours from Quito; the Amazon is a thirty-minute flight and a canoe ride.
6 stays Explore Ecuador
Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0NewGuatemala
Temples above the treeline, a river canyon to the Caribbean, and turquoise pools in the limestone hills.
6 stays Explore Guatemala
Photo: shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0NewBorneo
Wild orangutans, pygmy elephants and eight kinds of hornbill, in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth.
6 stays Explore Borneo
Photo: Iraphne R. Childs, CC BY 4.0NewAustralia
The oldest rainforest on the planet runs straight down to the reef, and the cassowaries know it.
6 stays Explore AustraliaPick your shape.
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
Treehouses
35 stays
Photo: Bex Walton from London, England, CC BY 2.0
Bamboo houses
9 stays
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Domes
1 stays
Photo: James Martins, CC BY 3.0
Eco-lodges and camps
23 stays
Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0
Villas and houses
8 stays
Photo: Jurema Oliveira, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cabins and cottages
27 staysHideout Bali — Eco Bamboo Stay (The Original)
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…
See this stayWhich jungle is in season?
Dry season in Costa Rica is the wet in Bali. Pick your month and the planner tells you where the trails are firm.
Fresh from the jungle.
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0Hanoi Considers 300-Hectare Ba Vi Safari Ecotourism Plan
Hanoi authorities are reviewing a proposal for a substantial 300-hectare safari and ecotourism project in the Ba Vi area, according to vietnamnet.vn.
Photo: Jami430, CC BY-SA 4.0Cornell Study Points to El Yunque Tourism Growth
A new study by Cornell University suggests potential for tourism development in areas surrounding Puerto Rico's El Yunque National Forest.
Photo: Daria, CC BY 3.0Bagh Tola Expands Bandhavgarh Stays with Luxury Founders Camp
Bagh Tola introduces a new luxury property, the Founders Camp, in Bandhavgarh, expanding its existing accommodation offerings in the region.
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