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Amsterdam puts an urban twist on camping

Your last nights of camping for the season could be in this art instillation

Darwin the giant sperm; photo courtesy of Urban Campsite

Leave it to Amsterdam to make camping weird and interesting. From now until September 30 you can spend the night at Urban Campsite in the Vliegenbos campsite five minutes north of the city. It’s part campground, part art instillation, and all awesome and strange.

You can camp in structures that include a drainpipe turned mobile home called Polaris M, an antique fire truck, and a giant purple sperm named Darwin, which sleeps two and includes a desk.wheels, a suspended 12-sided tree house, and a bookmobile staffed by someone who will read you ghost stories before bed.

Boomhuttenfest’s tree house; photo courtesy of Urban Campsite

The instillation was organized by artists Annette van Driel and Francis Nijenhuis, who tapped Dutch designers and artists, such as Atelier van Lieshout and Creativemrfox, to build the structures. You can take a bus or a ferry from downtown to get there. Breakfast in bed—which is an option—costs 10 euros.

Markies, designed by Eduard Böhtlingk; photo courtesy of Urban Campsite

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