1 Picture 1 Story Week #59: My Dream Palace

Let me tell you that I was a daydreamer in my childhood. When I was 12 or 13 years old, I believed that magical palaces existed in the real world.

I also believed that if I could see them in comics, I would surely find them somewhere in my city. So I used to wander around my city and nearby villages and wonder if such palaces could be found.

I have been a big optimist right from a young age, so I never stopped looking for them even in my teens, and I believed that there is a world above the clouds, even if no one else has seen it, but I will see it.

I saw such a fort in Jaipur at the age of 16, but it was not what I had imagined. It was very ordinary for me. I saw another fort in Udaipur, but even that was not up to my expectations.

My imagination was beyond these castles, so I was looking for a strange and magical palace. I was not satisfied with the forts I had seen in Rajasthan and other Indian states, but as I grew up, I started believing that someday I would see a huge palace that was always in my dreams.

I have seen many palaces in the world, but none of them were like the palace of my dreams, finally, I saw the palace of my dreams and also took a photo of it. Would you believe that this palace is real but not the original?

Image I clicked in Cockington Green Gardens, Canberra

However, the problem was that this time I did not see this place in my dream. I actually saw a palace. I saw this palace and also took its photo, but I never actually went to the place where this palace was located.

Are you surprised? But this is the truth, which is not surprising because I saw this castle at Cockington Green, located in Canberra’s Gold Creek Village.

I must open the secret now. This park features houses and monuments from more than 30 different countries, from Scotland’s Braemer Castle to Peru’s Machu Picchu. I have forgotten the name of the city, but if I remember right it was one of these two places, which I have mentioned above.

I was captivated by this wonderful park when I saw everything real but in a ratio of 1:10 or even bigger or smaller. I saw real canals, rivers, bridges, and trains. I saw ships sailing in rivers. I saw real polo and football grounds. I even saw the Red Fort of India and took a photo in front of that.

I was in a world of tiny people and small structures. There was so much to see that I stayed there for six hours watching different castles and grounds, but I felt as if I had just arrived in that park.

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