Aboard log rafts approaching from the east, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort guests can tell they are about to experience no ordinary home tour.
With cascades of jungle vines, curtains of moss and a footbridge made of ropes, the leafy lair of Tarzan invites wide-eyed exploration.
Tarzan's Treehouse, a jumble of jungle and tropical, makeshift home of the legendary ape-man and his friend Jane Porter, rises nearly 19 meters in the heart of Adventureland on Tarzan Island.
In this climb-through adventure, guests meet characters from Disney's 1999 animated film "Tarzan," based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel "Tarzan of the Apes." To help guests learn and experience the story of Tarzan, open pages from Jane's sketchbook provide the narrative (English and traditional Chinese with characters) at key points of the adventure. Scenes from the Disney motion picture can be seen at intervals.
Born in tropical Africa but parentless at an early age, Tarzan was adopted by the she-ape Kala and raised by a band of anthropoids.
High in the tree is where Tarzan and Kala made their home and where the Lord of the Apes was discovered by Jane and her father, Professor Archimedes Porter.
Tarzan's story unfolds in amazing detail as guests follow winding stairways (cobbled together from a shipwreck) among limbs, branches and 10,000 broad green leaves so meticulously placed by artists that they flutter in the wind and their veins can be seen.
Along the vertical pathway guests follow, three "huts" are vignettes into Tarzan's life.
In the first hut -- the highest platform in the tree at nearly 12 meters -- guests see a scene of heart-stopping terror: the ransacked room where the menacing leopard Sabor took the lives of Tarzan's parents. Claw marks scar the floor and bamboo shelves are grotesquely twisted. Venture too close and Sabor roars and blasts his hot breath at guests. Sleeping safely in his crib hung by ropes from the highest branches, baby Tarzan is awakened by the roar and lets out an infant version of his famous jungle cry.
In the second hut, it's a moving scene as Kala nurtures Tarzan in her arms and reflects on bringing him up in the jungle.
The third and main room brings guests face to face with a manly Tarzan posing for an eager Jane, her sketchpad in hand.
Beside a riverbank at the base of the tree, Professor Archimedes Porter's world invites exploration -- and interactive fun. Amid test tubes and telescopes, amid the plants, insects and butterflies of his studies there are steel drums to pound, pots and pans that play music, a self-cranking slide show, vines to pull that emit animal sounds, bellows to fan a fire and an old-fashioned wind-up record player. This area is completely accessible for physically challenged guests to Tarzan's Treehouse.
A team of Disney Imagineers and carvers from France, Japan, the U.S. and Malaysia built so much creativity into the tree that guests are fooled into thinking it is real and not manmade, says Imagineer Skip Lange. In a corner of the world used to lush tropical trees, numerous textures were tried to get the barks just right. The structure is anchored by massive banyan-like roots.
A real icon of Adventureland, Tarzan's Treehouse takes guests inside a time-honored fable. It's chest-pounding fun.
About this Attraction
Location: Adventureland
Type: Interactive playhouse
Duration: Self-guided
 Fastpass:
No
Tips & Fun Facts
 Tarzan's Treehouse offers the best views of Adventureland.
 Tarzan's Treehouse is based on the attraction of the same name in Adventureland at Disneyland. However, the treehouse at Hong Kong Disneyland is unique in that it's on an island (Tarzan Island) in the middle of the Rivers of Adventure and that guests must take rafts to access it (at Disneyland, Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort, and Tokyo Disneyland, guests take rafts to Tom Sawyer Island).
Additional Information
 To fully experience Tarzan’s Treehouse, Guests must
be able to negotiate winding stairs and steep inclines.
As an alternative, Guests using wheelchairs can request a
roundtrip raft ride or disembark at Tarzan’s Island and enjoy
the natural setting and Professor Porter’s lab while waiting
for their party.
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Recommended For
 Pre-Schoolers
Children
Teens
Adults
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