Hello Great Ones,
I have had the week off due to semester break so that it is great. Going on a mission trip over the weekend into China was wonderful again, but I was pretty tired afterwards.
When I got back I headed with a friend for a little break to Shenzen, the massive city that borders Hong Kong and we checked out one of its numerous theme parks, "Window of the World." It was so bad, absurd, and over the top silly that afterwards I did not fret about the price of admission. @14 dollars Canadian. I was entertained by the absurdness of the park.
Two other real positives was that the sun was behind a smog/rain cloud so there was no sun beating on us and the temperature was a comfortable 25. Plus the vegetation in the park is great, lots of Banyan and palm trees.
Basically Window of the World has taken all the major landmarks around the world and made a model 1/3, 1/8, 1/59 th whatever, of its original size. All the continents are represented. So we started out with Asia and saw all the temples of Thailand and Cambodia, then moved on into Australia and saw Ayers Rock and the Sydney Opera House. From there it was Europe, windmills, Venice, castles, then to South America and a bizarre open pit mine from Venezuala, followed by Africa and its animals and grass huts. North America or rather the US was well represented by Niagara Falls, a model of Manhatten, with twin towers, statue of Liberty, and then there was South America again with Jesus on the hill overlooking Rio de Janerio. Indians were well represented too and for a few bucks you could shoot an arrow. There was also a log ride, where you rode along in small craft in water, like disneyland, but the overprotective Chinese made us wear rain ponchos and gave us a towel. I rebelled took the junk off and got wet like a man.
This park also had a bizarre statue park, where you could see "masterpieces," from around the world. There were also Chinese cowboys, an indoor ski hill with a tee bar lift, the Effiel Tower, and Chinese men doing Hawaiin folk dances in grass skirts. Riiiight! Then there was another European village. Of course there were vendors everywhere selling junk and coconuts.
It was all rather bizarre and with the Chinese embracing halloween it made it even more bizarre. For example there was a Mercedes Benz with a flat tire and a skeleton behind the wheel near the Egyptian exhibit, which of course had pyramids. Weird. All in all if I was really serious I would rank Window of the World a two out of ten for tacky displays that were run down and rather lame, but for entertainment value, because it is so bizarre and tacky I would give it a solid 10 out of 10.
So I wish you a great week and God bless you all.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
I have had the week off due to semester break so that it is great. Going on a mission trip over the weekend into China was wonderful again, but I was pretty tired afterwards.
Two other real positives was that the sun was behind a smog/rain cloud so there was no sun beating on us and the temperature was a comfortable 25. Plus the vegetation in the park is great, lots of Banyan and palm trees.
Basically Window of the World has taken all the major landmarks around the world and made a model 1/3, 1/8, 1/59 th whatever, of its original size. All the continents are represented. So we started out with Asia and saw all the temples of Thailand and Cambodia, then moved on into Australia and saw Ayers Rock and the Sydney Opera House. From there it was Europe, windmills, Venice, castles, then to South America and a bizarre open pit mine from Venezuala, followed by Africa and its animals and grass huts. North America or rather the US was well represented by Niagara Falls, a model of Manhatten, with twin towers, statue of Liberty, and then there was South America again with Jesus on the hill overlooking Rio de Janerio. Indians were well represented too and for a few bucks you could shoot an arrow. There was also a log ride, where you rode along in small craft in water, like disneyland, but the overprotective Chinese made us wear rain ponchos and gave us a towel. I rebelled took the junk off and got wet like a man.
This park also had a bizarre statue park, where you could see "masterpieces," from around the world. There were also Chinese cowboys, an indoor ski hill with a tee bar lift, the Effiel Tower, and Chinese men doing Hawaiin folk dances in grass skirts. Riiiight! Then there was another European village. Of course there were vendors everywhere selling junk and coconuts.
It was all rather bizarre and with the Chinese embracing halloween it made it even more bizarre. For example there was a Mercedes Benz with a flat tire and a skeleton behind the wheel near the Egyptian exhibit, which of course had pyramids. Weird. All in all if I was really serious I would rank Window of the World a two out of ten for tacky displays that were run down and rather lame, but for entertainment value, because it is so bizarre and tacky I would give it a solid 10 out of 10.
So I wish you a great week and God bless you all.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
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