{"id":2039,"date":"2007-07-31T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T06:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sightseeing-asia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:49:57","slug":"google-sightseeing-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-sightseeing-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sightseeing: Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" id=\"image2041\" alt=\"Touring around Asia\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/asia.jpg\" \/>OK, so I crossed over <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sightseeing-europe\/\">Europe<\/a> to Asia but I then realised it&#8217;s a really, really big continent and got worried I might get a bit tired. Then I remembered I don&#8217;t need to move anywhere because my trip will all be conducted via <a href=\"http:\/\/google-earth.en.softonic.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a>. Phew. I decided to start by going to the place everyone else seemed to be headed for. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/mecca.kml\">Mecca<\/a> and it&#8217;s mega. As it&#8217;s strictly off-limits for anyone who doesn&#8217;t follow Islam, this was probably my only chance to see it and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, I paid a visit to the only man in the world who earns more than a Softonic content editor, the Sultan of Brunei, and was pretty impressed with <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/the-sultan-of-brunei.kml\">his crib<\/a>. Another nice little abode was the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/taj-mahal.kml\">Taj Mahal<\/a>, which was built by an Indian man to the memory of his dead wife. I think I&#8217;ll just stick with flowers.<\/p>\n<p>I also discovered that Asia is full of boats, which aren&#8217;t always where you expect them to be. After checking out the hundreds of vessels in <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/victoria-harbour-hong-kong.kml\">Victoria Harbour<\/a>, Hong Kong, I trekked to Uzbekistan where I clapped eyes on this <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/ships-in-the-desert.kml\">huge ship<\/a> stranded in the middle of the desert. Spooky. To take my mind off this eerie discovery I headed for the world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/large-buildings.kml\">biggest indoor theme park<\/a> in South Korea before jetting over to Dubai, where they have created the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/the-world-in-dubai.kml\">whole world<\/a> in the form of a series of islands off the coast. Hmmm, maybe I can just stay here instead of carrying on my global Google Earth tour. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I crossed over Europe to Asia but I then realised it&#8217;s a really, really big continent and got worried I might get a bit tired. Then I remembered I don&#8217;t need to move anywhere because my trip will all be conducted via Google Earth. Phew. I decided to start by going to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-sightseeing-asia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Sightseeing: Asia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337339,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/337339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}