GET LOST MEGHALAYA, INDIA

ARCHITECTURE DOESN’T get more eco-friendly than the living root bridges of India’s northeastern Meghalaya state. Like something out of a fairy kingdom, these otherworldly suspension bridges are formed by guiding the aerial roots of rubber fig trees, Ficus elastica, across streams and creeks – a process that can take more than a decade. The architects are the Khasi people, who have been wielding their magic for centuries, with the earliest documented bridge appearing in the 1844 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Over time the roots strengthen and fuse together, making the structures more stable with age – and giving them a life span of half a millennium.

懾人勝景印度梅加拉亞邦

印度東北部梅加拉亞邦的活樹根吊橋，

就像是童話中魔幻世界中的橋，亦可能

是世界上最環保的建築，當地的卡西族

人引導印度榕樹的氣根向橫生長，在河流溪澗之上互相交纏成一道橋，整個過程需時十多年，卡西族人這種築橋方式已有數百年歷史。最早有文獻記載的活

樹根吊橋是1844年Asiatic Society of Bengal出版的期刊。吊橋的氣根會隨年

月生長得愈來愈茂密堅固，令橋的生命

更為持久，一般可使用達500年。