Welsh Bay – Ask a number of residents for their Top Ten of favorite places in SL and the Wales area is likely to pop up in at least a number of them. The landscape is beautifully crafted with mountains, streams, castles, lots of trees and surprises around almost every corner.

If the place never looks quite the same that’s probably because there’s too much to take in during a single visit. Also, because the area never is exactly the same from one visit to the next. The sims (which include Wales, Welsh Harbour, Welsh Bay and the recently added Welsh Cove) are constantly being improved and refined.

Though many would consider the landscape a piece of art in its own right, Alexandar Vargas who owns the sims has opened a gallery in Welsh Bay around the turn of the year.

“I’ve always had a collection of art,” said Vargas, “but when I started building, I decided I wanted to open a Gallery and let others enjoy seeing the art I had collected.”

Vargas’ gallery is not your regular building with framed pictures and a security guy watching your every step. For one thing, it’s mostly outdoors.

“It sort of was a dream of mine. I love art, but I wasn’t happy with seeing it stuck in a building and viewing it like in RL. So I played with it and mixed the artists and wanted a play ground so to speak," Vargas said.

Vargas certainly managed to do just that. It’s hard to tell where the artworks end and the landscape begins. Walking along the path one can see little dragons having a tea party, or a giant statue of a ballerina dancing on a mountain top. But visitors staying on the path will miss out on quite some works! Walking around the gallery gives a feeling of being in Wonderland. This reporter was expecting to bump into a white rabbit or the Mad Hatter continuously!

Welsh Bay is set to midnight all day long.  Which is, as Vargas explained “… to get the full effects of the falls, and some of the art.”

There’s humor in almost every work,