With international travel restrictions still in place, staycations are coming back in vogue as local travel avenues begin opening up globally. Staycations essentially mean a holiday spent in one’s home country rather than travelling abroad, or one spent at and around one’s home, taking day trips to local attractions, or exploring the area like a local.
Some Belgian citizens are looking to make the most of summer, as a party abroad, the coronavirus pandemic turns out to be a grim option for at least the next few months. Enter a new camp to revel in the house spending an afternoon in a tear-shaped tent hanging from a tree.
The concept of the Dutch artist Dr. Wapenaar, the tents in the trees also serve as an artistic installation and are considered sculptures that carp produced in the trade.
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“The tents are completed every summer, but this year the reserves were much faster. If we had more tents, they would also be taken every day in July and August,” said Katrien Houbey, tourism manager of the eastern city. of Borgloon, who has housed 4 tents along a wooded box since 2011.
“I think it’s because of the rules of your own country’s government. So other people started looking for opportunities to stay somewhere,” she says.
SEE PHOTOS: Belgians spend a holiday in the trees as the holidays return to fashion in the middle of Covid-19
At 70 euros ($79) per night, the tents can accommodate two other people and reach a bathroom and barbecue.
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.
“My tents are too expensive to produce (commercially),” Wapenaar told Reuters. “I deserve to have conceived it if I sought to sell a lot. Array… I’m not a smart product designer, I’m an artist.”
Wapenaar has 4 other tents in the Belgian city of Bornem, near Antwerp, one in a sculpture park in the United States, in a guest room in France and 3 in a camp in the Netherlands.
Through Instagram, the artist shared that the tree tents were open for booking until September.
– with contributions from Reuters
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