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    Photos: Belgians holiday in trees as COVID-19 prompts staycations

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    Photos: Belgians holiday in trees as COVID-19 prompts staycations

    At $79 a night, the tents sleep two people and include access to a bathroom & barbecue


    Published:  July 09, 2020 13:59 Reuters  and  compiled by Balaram Menon, Digital Content Editor

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    Rather than take a summer holiday abroad during the coronavirus pandemic, some Belgians are trying a novel camping experience at home, spending a night in a tear drop-shaped tent hanging from a tree. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    The idea of Dutch artist Dre Wapenaar (above), the tree tents double as an art installation and are considered sculpture, rather than a commercially-produced tent. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    "The tents are fully booked every summer, but this year, the bookings went much faster. If we had more tents, they would also be taken every day of July and August," said Katrien Houbey, head of tourism for the eastern town of Borgloon, which has hosted four tents along a tree-lined field since 2011. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    "I believe it's because of the government's guidelines to travel in your own country. So people started searching for alternatives to stay somewhere," she said. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    At 70 euros ($79) a night, the tents sleep two people and include access to a bathroom and barbecue. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Designed in the 1990s to support environmental activists who sought to stop trees being felled, the tree tents have been exhibited in New York and across Europe. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    "My tents are too expensive to produce (commercially)," Wapenaar told Reuters. "I should have designed it in a different way if I wanted to sell many of them ... I am not a good product designer, I am an artist." Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Wapenaar has another four tents in the Belgian town of Bornem, near Antwerp, one in a sculpture park in the United States, another at a bed-and-breakfast in France and three at a camp site in the Netherlands. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    A guest climbs on a ladder to enter a tear drop-shaped tent hanging from a tree created by Dutch artist Dre Wapenaar, offering an unusual accommodation for tourists in the Belgian countryside, near Borgloon. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Guests sit inside a tear drop-shaped tent hanging from a tree. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Guests pose a they sit inside a tear drop-shaped tent hanging from a tree. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    A guest is seen inside a tear drop-shaped tent hanging from a tree. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Guests pose a they sit inside a tear drop-shaped tent hanging from a tree Image Credit: REUTERS

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