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Taman Festival – Bali’s Abandoned Theme Park

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Strange - the pictures were of only patios and arches. The text described amazing things - which are not pictured in the article?

I assume they dismantled and sold what they could? Like the roller coaster

According to the article was supposed to average 1200 visitors per day, which is somewhere between roadside attraction and 1M population city zoo level. Seems a bit oversold in the article.

Seeing things like this always reminds me of Boblo Island, which was an island amusement park in the Detroit river. You took a ferry from Detroit or Amherstburg, Ontario to get there and back. It shut down when I was 12, so my sisters who are all younger never got the chance to experience it, which makes me feel both sad and lucky to have had the chance.

It's now a private island with a few streets of residential homes. We went back to take some photos last year. It was cool but haunting to see some remnants still there just rusting away (no rides, just a dance hall and some other structures). Feels kind of like a dream at this point.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boblo-island-abandoned-a...

If you’re on the American side the abandoned zoo on Belle isle is really a fun place to explore, to get the full experience be ready to climb up to the walking platform and get dirty.

I've been meaning to check that out too!

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I remember watching a video about it on Youtube back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73vZcAlVrg

OMG these guys are insufferable. Really brings me back to this quote by David Foster Wallace that I've been ruminating over ever since I was on Bali myself:

> “To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience, It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/211278-to-be-a-mass-tourist...

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