![]() It would roar off the screen right at you.Ä«outique hotels - who needs 'em? Give me grandiose. If The Palace of the Lost City were a movie it would be an epic, brought to you in glorious, radiant technicolour, with surround-sound and 3D thrown in. ![]() I seem to have misplaced my Indiana whip or at this point I'd crack it. But now I've been bowled over by it - by the mad, magnificent opulence of it all. I admit I was prepared to hate it after all subtle is not a word in that appears in the Sun City repertoire. The Palace of the Lost City at Sun City is the most extravagant, over-the-top, glorious folly on the whole of the African continent. Shades of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom come to mind, except that this is a temple of indulgence. A silhouetted flock of birds swoops across the pink dawn sky and monkeys swing from the ornate towers and turrets of what looks like some magnificent ancient palace. Outside my window a blood-red sun is coming up over a curling jungle which seems to go on forever. Seen in the lobby: Tourists who come just to stare, those who actually check-in
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