The Great Wall in Second Life
New tourist attraction from Hosoi Ichiba, The Great Wall, drew our attention last night as we wandered all the beautiful sites.
from the Hosoi Ichiba article on the wall:
We always advise people who visit our little corner of the SL world to not just spend their time within the walls of the market, but to get outside and to "smell the Lotus", as it were. Well, those of you that have been willing to venture further afield than the existing pathways documented in our earlier article have been rewarded by our latest project, the Great Wall!
Amiryu started this project with the financial help of a RL benefactor, using over three thousand pictures pictures from the original Great Wall of China (长城 or Chángchéng) as a reference, to build a sim-wide version of one of the most impressive historical structures the Real World ™ has to offer.
The Real world version was built between the 6th and 16th centuries, started during the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代 or Chūnqiū Shídài) of history to protect the northern part of China from Xiongnu attacks.
(And, in the category of "trivia you can use at parties", the statement that the wall is the only human construction that is visible from space is actually an urban myth.)
