{"id":4429,"date":"2016-06-13T21:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T04:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2019-09-07T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:27:12","slug":"bee-hives-and-northeast-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/bee-hives-and-northeast-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee hives and Northeast India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Back in February of 2012 I visited the far north east area of India in Meghalaya. There are some amazing living root bridges, and the hike to get to them led through some tiny villages. I\u2019ve always been fascinated with bees, and it wasn\u2019t until a few years later that I actually started keeping bees myself, but I came across some interesting local been hives.<\/p>\n<p>This one was made of a few logs hacked together:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"UW1A5139.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UW1A5139.jpg\" alt=\"UW1A5139\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The trip to get to them was sort of sketchy. Well, I wouldn\u2019t really consider it sketchy, and it was fun crossing steel bridges like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"UW1A5121.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UW1A5121.jpg\" alt=\"UW1A5121\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The natural live root bridges were the coolest! Here I am striking a pose after looking at the tiny orchids growing on the bridge itself:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"UW1A4935.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UW1A4935.jpg\" alt=\"UW1A4935\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A little further down the road was another hive of a different style:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"UW1A4965.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UW1A4965.jpg\" alt=\"UW1A4965\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"UW1A4969.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UW1A4969.jpg\" alt=\"UW1A4969\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February of 2012 I visited the far north east area of India in Meghalaya. 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