The Travel Channel has said that spending your Puerto Rico vacation in a hooch (a bamboo tree house) is like spending your vacation in the “world’s greatest treehouse.” These are found in Rincon, which is a beautiful rainforest that is located near some of the exotic beaches that you will enjoy while on your Puerto Rico vacation.
What A Hooch Is
A hooch is a new way of building. It is built on a small base so as not to disrupt the environment around it.
The Concept Behind The Hooch
The concept of these bamboo houses, which you can enjoy while on your Puerto Rico vacation, comes from the owners’ passion about the environment and bamboo. While they originally loved living on the Caribbean Sea, they soon found that they needed to be on land instead. So, they started a bamboo business making everything imaginable from this fine wood. Eventually this led them to build a bamboo tree house so that people could enjoy a Puerto Rico vacation that was eco-friendly in nature.
How A Hooch Is Built
A hooch stands on a single point, maintaining its balance thanks to a redundant cable system that is attached to the trees around it. Since it is made out of bamboo, your Puerto Rico vacation tree house will be both rigid yet flexible at the same time. While it will move about on its foundation, it will still be able to withstand any stress or distortion.
How Sturdy A Hooch Is
Anyone who is worried about just how sturdy their Puerto Rico vacation tree house is going to be… You should know that these tree houses have managed to weather 3 hurricanes, completely unscathed. In fact, in April 2006 these tree houses underwent a feasibility study to see if these were safe dwelling places for people who lived in areas that were susceptible to tsunamis (i.e. Indonesia). Since bamboo was already being used to make safe earthquake shelters, it only made sense to check this out as well. This study is still going on today and thus the results have yet to be finalized.
A Final Word On Spending Puerto Rico Vacations In A Hooch
If you are looking for the ultimate eco-tourism, Puerto Rico vacation, you will definitely want to stay in a Puerto Rico vacation tree house. Not only will you find that it is great in the way that it draws upon the area’s natural resources but you will also discover that these Puerto Rico vacation tree houses cause very little disruption to their environment.