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Inside Bali’s Bamboo TREEHOUSE Paradise

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A three-storey house built entirely from bamboo hangs over a river gorge outside Ubud, and it rents by the night.

Michael Makes Films’ video “Inside Bali’s Bamboo TREEHOUSE Paradise” documents a stay at Aura House, a hand-built bamboo villa tucked into the Ayung River gorge in Sibang Gede, part of the Abiansemal district roughly 30 minutes south of Ubud. The property sits inside Green Village, the eco-design compound conceived by Elora Hardy and her studio Ibuku, a short walk from the well-known Green School. What the video captures isn’t a rustic jungle hut — it’s a serious architectural statement made almost entirely of giant bamboo poles.

• Aura House is a three-storey villa built by hand from locally sourced Dendrocalamus asper, known as giant Petung bamboo, and designed to face east to catch the sunrise over the gorge.
• The layout includes two private en-suite bedrooms separated by an acoustically insulated floor cavity, open-air living spaces facing the jungle, multi-level terraces, outdoor showers, a full kitchen, and a private plunge pool arranged as a flower bath.
• Booked through platforms like Airbnb, the villa sleeps up to four guests and comes with on-site spa treatments and community tours covering the bamboo engineering behind Green Village.

Inside the Ayung River Gorge Compound

Green Village is not a single house but a cluster of them, each one an experiment in what bamboo can do structurally when it’s treated less like a craft material and more like engineered lumber. Aura House is one of the standout residences in that compound, built into the slope above the Ayung River so that its lower terraces open directly onto the gorge. The east-facing orientation is deliberate — guests staying in either of the two en-suite bedrooms wake up to sunrise light coming straight up the river valley.

The bamboo itself, Dendrocalamus asper, is sourced locally rather than imported, which matters to the compound’s whole design philosophy. It’s harvested, treated, and then bent and joined by hand into the curved, organic forms that give the house its shape — there are no straight, boxy walls here, just sweeping lines that mimic branches and leaves rather than a conventional frame.

The Layout Guests Actually Experience

What the video walks through is a functional, livable house rather than a novelty structure. The two bedrooms are en-suite and separated by a floor cavity engineered for acoustic insulation, which matters more than it sounds — bamboo transmits sound differently than drywall, and Ibuku’s designers had to solve for that. Between the bedrooms and the multi-level terraces, guests move through open-air living spaces that face straight into the jungle canopy, with outdoor showers and a fully equipped kitchen rounding out the practical side of the stay.

The signature feature, and the one the video lingers on, is the plunge pool positioned to look straight down the gorge, often set up as a flower bath for guests. It’s a small pool, but the placement — cantilevered toward the river with nothing but bamboo and open air around it — is the kind of detail that separates Aura House from a standard jungle villa.

A three-storey house made almost entirely from Petung bamboo, angled east to catch the sunrise over the Ayung River gorge.

Green Village Impact Beyond Villas

Aura House doesn’t exist in isolation. It’s one piece of a broader push by Elora Hardy and Ibuku to prove bamboo can function as primary building material at scale, not just decoration. The compound sits within walking distance of Green School, the campus that first put Bali’s bamboo-architecture movement on the international map, and Green Village extends that same logic into private residential design — livable homes rather than classrooms. Guests booking Aura House can join community tours that explain how the bamboo is engineered and treated, which turns a night’s stay into something closer to a case study in sustainable construction.

For travelers plotting an Indonesia itinerary, a night at Aura House pairs naturally with the rest of the island’s landmarks — anyone already comparing notes from a Bali family trip or a wider Indonesia travel vlog will recognize Ubud’s jungle belt as the natural jumping-off point, with Green Village roughly half an hour south of town.

The video leaves the through-line pretty simple: this isn’t a themed hotel room dressed up to look eco-friendly, it’s an actual bamboo structure that Ibuku’s builders assembled by hand on a gorge outside Sibang Gede, and it’s currently bookable for four people on Airbnb with a spa treatment and a bamboo-engineering tour thrown in if you ask for one.