Hallstatt in China?
Oh Mein Gott! - is nothing sacred?...not content with duplicating anything that can raise a few dollars, the Chinese have only gone and cloned the entire Austrian village of Hallstatt...a kinda HallstattWorld of the Far East...http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/02/244332/chinese-clone-austria-hallstatt/
http://www.news24.com/Travel/Hallstatt-in-China-20120604
Only took one year and $940 million, apparently...however, that was the easy bit...finding a Chinese equivalent of that obnoxious weasel that runs the Zur Muehle bar and restaurant will be a much bigger challenge...
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Eine Schande! What's next - copyrighting towns? It will probably break after a few decades anyway. Der Spiegel ran a more interesting story last year:http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-china-s-german-ghost-town-fotostrecke-73908-6.html
Looks like the Austrians may have the last laugh if it turns out like Anting.
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BTW don't they already have a kind of theme park with all the world's most famous monuments reproduced in large scale ?I remember seeing an illuminated Eiffel tower one night while driving towards Hong Kong from Guangzhou....
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Great idea, visiting China I'll also visit Halstatt there. Thnaks for sharing, Jack.BTW. did the Sovyets not build a copy of London and Paris near Stavropol to reward their dedicated workers with a trip, told by Wladimir Kaminer in his Russian disco
1893: Vierwaldstättersee replica with rocks and swiss house near Emmerich Germany.
http://www.anholter-schweiz.de/1.html
OK, small.
And what's in Las Vegas?
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Apparently the Chinese have some previous 'form' in this department...a few years back, they cloned and reconstructed 'The Sound of Music' in it's entirety...sets, actors, countryside, etc...However a snag arose at the unveiling after the visiting dignitaries were inadvertently left in a room with 'Julie Andrews' for half an hour...overnight the whole thing was dismantled and a veil drawn over the entire affair, never to be mentioned again...
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Mory copy and paste, Nanchang.http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/11144/Dwars-door-China/article/detail/3296804/2012/08/05/Dwars-door-China-dag-5-Geen-spoor-te-vinden-van-Joep---zelfs-zijn-straat-is-verdwenen.dhtml
I think this triumphal arch is somewhere to be seen in Europe too...
