Two new places

I read in today's FT of two new-to-me places. The first, is a brand new mega city called Neom, a $500bn project from the Saudi royal family on the northwestern extremity of their kingdom. It will be interesting to see what can be done in the 21st century when money is no object.

Some commentators have been amused that some of the pictures used to advertise the project were actually of the second place, something called the Cloud Forest, a large green house on the shores of Marina Bay, in the south of Singapore island. With the snap left looking west, with the busy looking Singapore Strait in the background. With the large Indonesian island of Sumatra off-snap, a little to the right, that is to say west also. Smaller Indonesian islands visible on the horizon, used, inter alia, for R&R by the wealthy of Singapore. See reference 3.

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neom.

Reference 2: https://www.neom.com/en-us/. Quite a flashy website, so perhaps no money spare here either.

Reference 3: https://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/attractions/cloud-forest/visitor-information.html. Presently closed, should you be thinking of visiting. Even gmaps knows that.