if you want to see what Sydney looked like before the city evolved into a massive sprawl, there’s no need to visit the bush. The botanic gardens have a fake rain forest with planters, signage, colored mylar canopies, and a snack bar.
Category: fake jungle
climate take down?
I had never been to a Rainforest Cafe, but while walking through the Arizona Mills mall, I realized that the restaurant filled an entire bingo card of topics for my website. Fake nature, wildvertising, greenwashing, crapitalism, vaguely apocalyptic. . . all in the same place? Wuh? So my wife and I braved the lush plastic jungle and now I’m convinced. . . Rainforest Cafe is a portal to hell.
It felt weird having animatronic elephants and gorillas watching me eat. I kept waiting for them to say things like, “are you gonna eat that?” and “please pass the ketchup.”
finally, proof of an advanced civilization, living deep in the jungle. . .
The inside of the Empire of Cats at the Berlin Zoo had this modern concrete brutalist bunker feel, with spurious explosions of nature. This style shows up often in zoos. I was so mesmerized by the space, that I didn’t even look into the enclosures.
In the Atocha train station in Madrid, we found the platform that leads to Jumanji.