One of my most favorite movies is “Overboard” with Goldie Hawn. In it- one of projects that her pseudo husband makes- is a putt-putt golf course with tacky copies of the 7 Wonders of the World to “teach the people of Elks Cove” about the wonders outside their area… Well this place was a lot like that. The Changsha park, "Window of The World", is filled with miniatures of famous places with scary rides thrown in for good measure.
You enter the park thru the LOUVER Glass Pyramid, you walk around a small lake to see the Statue of Liberty located in MAMHATTEN and the SIDNEY Opera House, London Bridge on semi-dry land (it was drizzling), around the Pyramids and Sphinx located in the lake, pass the “Hill of Presidents” (Mount Rushmore) which is located in South DAKOTO, by the heavily graffiti-ed Alamo, Cowboy Fast Food Shop, and the TOTERN (Totem Pole) PILLER. There were many more mistakes in translation but we got bored with looking for them.
It was sort of fun trying to figure out if I could remember where the replicas were from and it made me realize that there were still a lot of places I wanted to see in the world.
