Sublime Shanghai
Posted on February 2nd, 2010
A few random pics from my trip to Shanghai a couple of weeks back:
A few random pics from my trip to Shanghai a couple of weeks back:
As New Years Eve‘s go I think mine probably ranked among the most surreal. After work some colleagues and myself went to the “Window of the World” theme park located in the western part of Shenzhen. The 48 hectare park contains over 130 scale reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world including a 108 meter tall fake Eiffel Tower. In China they never do things in halves and although I’m somewhat used to brash and vulgar displays of wealth around here this takes it to another level. Above: replica of the glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre in Paris but here actually an entrance to the Metro! Getting into the park proved to be a rather unpleasant experience due…
Lotte World, opened in 1989, is South Korea’s home grown answer to Disney Land and shares with it many of the same iconic themes to the degree that you have to wonder how they get away with it. The one big difference is that most of the theme park is housed indoors in an enormous enclosure making it the largest of its type in the world (ranked 7th overall worldwide for attendance). Whilst I can’t admit to being a huge fan of theme parks I do like some of the more extreme rides so on my first full day in Seoul I hopped on the subway and headed over to Jamsil to see what all the fuss was about. First impressions: This place is…