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The 5 Oldest Forests on the Planet You Can Still Visit

From Australia's Daintree to Chile's giant alerce trees, these are five of the oldest forests on Earth you can still walk through. Here is what each costs and how to reach it.

  • Daintree rainforest in Australia is world's oldest tropical rainforest at 180 million years.
  • Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus is Europe's last large primeval lowland forest.
  • Yakushima Island in Japan hosts ancient Yakusugi cedar trees, some 2,000 to 7,200 years old.

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