Stairway to Heaven

These photos were taken during a visit to the Xstrata Walkway at Kew Gardens.

Is Xstrata the fruit of an Ewok-Doozer collaboration? Actually it was designed by Marks Barfield, the architects behind the London Eye, and gives visitors a close-up view of some of the park's larger specimens. There's a definite sci-fi aura - this could be part of a human colony on a forested alien world.