Window of the World

Day three in Changsha. We took the recommendations of almost everyone on this day and visited 'Window of the World'. This is a big-ish kinda theme park of sorts, where there are many famous buildings from around the world reproduced in miniature. Everyone we had told about our holiday said 'oh, you must go to window of the world'. It seems like it must be Changsha's biggest attraction.

It was ok. Nothing to shout about but we still had fun. To give you a flavour of the place, here's Elisha, Sarah, Liana, Jess and Aaron in front of the (mini) Sydney Opera House...

To be perfectly honest, window of the world was a little bit ghetto. The reproductions were obviously not cared for in the slightest. Bits were missing off all of them and some were in a really bad shape. Queen Victoria was missing from her pedestal outside Buckingham Palace, so Aaron kindly stepped in to replace here. She would not be amused. We were though...














Although it did state in big, clear, poorly-written letters 'do not climb on the attractions', well, there was no-one about, so I couldn't resist the temptation to play Godzilla and climb into this Cambodian (or Thai? Archaeology friends, help me out here...) temple complex. (Is it Kok Phanom Di? I can't be arsed to look it up...). Anyways, made for a good photo...







I think anyone who has ever been to Changsha must have a photo like this in their collection. You can see just how ghetto the place is by the missing columns and broken sign...














We all had a good laugh regardless and by the time we were finished with it all, it was dark (no daylight savings time here). Here's a good one of all of us - Sunshine, Anthony, Elisha, Me, Jess Liana, Sarah Nick and Aaron.