{"id":217,"date":"2009-04-03T14:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:10:37","slug":"saudi-arabias-jeddah-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/saudi-arabias-jeddah-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wish I knew more about what I’m writing about today, but all I have to go on is what I can see.<\/p>\n

What I see is Althekra, a beautiful reproduction of what the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah apparently looked like before the current modern era. It’s a beautiful reproduction. The builders have done a magnificent job. The buildings look authentic, and the streets are narrow as they probably were in the days before automobiles. A few house businesses, but most are vacant.<\/p>\n

What little information is available in the sim that might explain it is in Arabic. It was frustrating. I wanted to know more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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To one side of the town, there is an open square with two rows of stalls for vendors; you see one of them in the picture to the left. Just behind the buildings in this picture is, incongruously, a dance floor with a dance animation ball and strobe lights.<\/p>\n

The ruined building in the next picture stands on the other side of the square. There is doubtlessly a meaning to it, but without being able to read Arabic, I don’t know what it is, though a large smear of blood on the pavement stones nearby and some photographs suggests a connection with the terrible events in Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Be careful if you walk through this ruin. The town sits in the sky at about 350 meters high and there is a spot in the ruin where you can fall through. If you do, you’ll land in a shallow pool of water next to what appears to be a monument to the suffering of people in Gaza, though again because I don’t read Arabic, I can’t say anything more certain that that.<\/p>\n

If you want to show solidarity with Palesntinians, you can get free Palestinian tee shirts here.<\/p>\n

If you’re a Second Life membert and you want to visit Althekra, the reproduction of old Jeddah, click on this slurl<\/a> to teleport there.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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