 Hello, thank you for joining me. Today I am out for a walk in Hyde Park in London. It's a lovely January afternoon, the sun is out and we're actually heading to this corner of Hyde Park so we're going to go and see something that's not going to be there for much longer. Just over there is the Marble Arch Mount. It was opened in 2021 to bring more tourists back into London after not such a good year, 2020 and everything. Well, it comes down on the night for January so I thought I ought to come and have a look, see it before it disappears because it might, everyone sort of says it's not very good and that but I thought well I'll come and make my own opinion, see what I think while I can. There's all these lorries everywhere and if you look over there you can see winter wonderland that's been taken down. Just then a convoy of lorries drove through the park which seemed quite unusual so yeah it's all been taken down. I can see a half-dismantled roller coaster so I don't think I want to have a go on that at the moment. So as for the mound, well it's kind of hidden at the moment behind these trees so it's free to visit. You just have to book online or everybody by the time you watch this video it will have gone but I think most people who wanted to see it have been to see it and I believe inside there's like an art installation so looking forward to seeing the views and then seeing the interior so there it is now we can see it. Very London seen with those buses there, look at that. There's like a little tower sticking out top maybe that's a lift for people who can't manage all this day or soon find out. So as it's got an art installation inside to me it suggests it's possibly not actually a mound even that's called the mound it's some sort of structure covered in grass but we'll find out and we'll see. I'm very interested in the structure of it how it's actually built and you know rather because I'm getting the impression it isn't just a big lump of earth I think that's what it looks like. It looks the size of that very steep I'm pretty sure if it was a lump of earth and it didn't have a load of soil nails in it it would have all collapsed in the rain but we'll find all that out. Just walk through the London Plains and you know across the road see what we can see so I booked my ticket last night it was very easy to get tickets. There's a lot of sirens going off on what's happened. Anyway what I'm gonna do though we're nearly there so I'm gonna keep walking and check in and up the mound we'll go. I'm now standing outside Marble Arch tube station we're not going on the train today's video just show you where we are though there's Marble Arch and there's the mound I've still got a bit of time before I check in so what I thought we'll do we'll have a look around this side of the mound because it's already fairly visible that as I said about it it's not really a mound it's a structure have a look at that. I think it's a big white ball it's like a big white sheet so to me it looks like it's more than the Marble Arch giant scaffold structure with grass on the outside rather than the mound but you know and so if we have a look here I appreciate the sun's in the way actually we'll walk through I'm walking through Marble Arch itself right now you should be able to drive through here but imagine all this traffic trying to get through those arches. So yeah look the mound on this side you wouldn't even think that's the same thing but that that white thing you can see that is the other side of the mound against the London Plain tree so yeah it looks like it's all one big structure and it looks as though from here this side affects you like grass planted on the roof. Not quite sure how they've planted the trees but we might be able to work the one out because there's trees on the outside might be able to work one out once we go so what I'm going to do I'm going to hang around for a bit and then go and check in with those ladies over there so my ticket and then hopefully we'll be going up. So my climb up the mound begins as I said about being scaffolding it's like a basically scaffolding step like you'll get more building sites. See how steep it is at this point here the mound itself is more than a one-in-one gradient so yeah I can see there's plants and everything growing but I think they're kind of sort of a bit of soil placed against a roof as such. I don't know how well you can see we might be able to see it better but if you look sort of into the steps you can see the structure so you can see really it's a massive scaffold structure but you know I quite like that because I do like unusual buildings and structures and everything so I'm kind of quite fascinated by the idea that it is this massive structure. In fact having a closer look here you can see they're sort of like a netting it's just coming out of it to hold the plants in because it's so steep. It's not steep all the way now there's some trees some silver birch trees so I don't know quite how they're planted that's what I'm intrigued to work out so we come up to here high park where we were a moment ago you just make out ferris wheel over in winter wonderland looks like the mound is also used to come down how does this I can see the trees so to me it looks like there actually goes through a hole I don't know if you can see that goes through a hole in the roof of the structure so to me whether they're like in some sort of flower pot inside that's what I would guess anyway so probably when they take the mound down they can just take those trees out and plant them somewhere permanently and because it's like they get like a temporary life here and then they'll go and grow somewhere else for a permanent life they're getting high up that structure there on that lorry is probably one of the roller coasters from winter wonderland which they've just taken down and if you assume we'll prove you just about the same height those London planes in high park when we get to the top so I'm enjoying this but then I've always liked going up high things and if you go to eastern Europe quite often on top of hills you always get these little lookout towers they're not so common in the UK but in Hungary and Slovakia and maybe a bit more in the west of Europe in Germany to get them but you don't get that many things you can just climb up so there's another lorry a couple more lorries down there with this man called winter wonderland right and just going for a part of that carousel and everything see on that lorry down there they get quite a nice view that way across high park see the gallery up at the top so that's when we go up there we'll be able to have a real good look across London in all directions nearly there now so um it seems it's a one-way thing so I see yeah there's a I can just see in the middle there's like set steps going down so that's good means we get to go not yet but on we go we go down inside the structure so we'll be able to have a really good look at the um at the inside of it so I'm just gonna let you see the views now really and just see over there the four chimneys of Battersea Power Station a while ago I went and did a video on the new tube station have a look at link on screen now you can see out you can see the shard over there the London Eye and the city you can see the post office tower in that direction hard rock hotel the building under construction here that's that lift tower which I set about so um that's for disabled access or people who don't wish to climb all the stairs so what I'm going to do I'm just going to hang around up here enjoy the views and then it'll be time to go and explore the interior of the mount I really like it up here um watching the traffic and the buses and just the views in general up here on a nice sunny day it probably wouldn't be so fun to be up here on a rainy day but you know um they say it's the worst tourist attraction in London or some people said I think that's a bit unfair it's um it I think it's quite exciting I'll just show you one thing you know I was saying when we were down there about how it's uh like a not a full mount we're here it's a complete vertical drop down there so there's kind of like a slope on three sides so you've got slope going down there slope going down there and slope going down there what we're going to do now though is um well we'll walk crown one more time see the views and then we're going to descend down into the mount itself and we can have a look at the structure and see what it's all actually made of so yeah slope there slope there it's the other side over there where it's complete vertical we'll have another look complete vertical so when you get to here no slope at all so yeah you can see down to the London plains down there let's go inside the mount now and get out the sun because I might look to bits to the wet even those last shots so as we come down here oh yeah look it's uh now we're inside it's just like being in the loft in a very big loft and that's basically what it's oh and as for the trees look you can see so they are planted in giant flower pots and then they're just going through a hole so um yeah then there's a load of pipes you can see going to water them so they must be like a big irrigation system to water the trees and I suppose all the plants and that on the outside just get watered by the rain that they might have an irrigation as well so that is how the trees are looked after so we found out that one um as we go down though it's really like quite fascinating you see down there it's just uh complete it's like a giant sort of when I was little I used to play with connects it's like a giant's connects thing that's but if I came here when I was a child when I got home I'd be trying to make look at that I mean that's so I love that all that all that I'll be trying to make that out of connects if I if I came here when I was a child as for that vertical side look well that's the wall so a moment ago we were up there I think that corner and this is the vertical side of the mounds and uh yeah we're going deeper and deeper inside and I can hear a sort of music playing I think that's probably part of the art installation and which I believe we're going to see on the ground floor personally I think this whole thing is like an art installation it's it's big and impressive and just um just like just think yeah it's uh I'd enjoy putting it up and taking it down so probably quite fascinating to have seen it all being put up and taken down oh look at that yeah definitely it's definitely not the worst tourist attraction in London that's a bit unfair um I wouldn't say it's the best but it's not the worst but then everyone has different opinions of what they think's great and isn't too great so yeah no I like it it's a shame it I suppose that's part the fun of it it's a temporary thing it won't be here forever so if you came to see it great um but if you didn't well next time something temporary comes along come and see it for yourself because you know you might wish you hadn't I think I know um if I had seen if I had heard about it afterwards and realized it was like this inside and I hadn't been in here I'd have been disappointed that I'd missed out so I'm glad I'm here just going round and round now it's down to the almost back on the ground floor um I think so there's like a building inside I think that's probably the building that's gonna um contain this art installation but we'll find that out yes there's like um you see it's like a big black sort of structure within the um within the giant connects kit of scaffolding see it does all feel quite temporary but then at the same time like I said it's wasn't meant to be here forever but what happens now mine's the step so we're down thank you light field exhibition so we're going into here so we go through this curtain wow look at that it's like uh yeah I'm looking there it feels very sci-fi in here like I've what I've gone down I feel like I've sort of gone up into space look into that walk out you can see it's like a um big 3d polygon and then that one over there that's just been projected um that's a 2d thing but yeah it gives the illusion that wow it's like a somewhere that goes on forever there's more there's more things in here these are all cubes you know and if I look down yeah it goes on forever look down there so it's all a bit strange in here um not quite sure what to make of it yeah it's impressive everything but I actually I think I prefer the view from the top but you know someone's put a thought into this so I'm not really one for I like some modern art but um this has got to be one of the better modern arts I've seen but still I prefer the view from above what's this I've got this strange looking um so similar idea but even um more sort of unpredictable as to where the shapes go another thing just here see my reflection so all of this is done by an artist called Anthony James um yeah so this is inside that big black structure we can see as we came down inside the mound it's there's about the most different thing you could possibly find yeah on the outside we're looking at London and everything looking at the sights the views and now we're down in here it's just I like this one view towards it so I think it's um time for me to to go and we'll go outside and have one more look at the mound from the outside well there we go I've just come out of the mound paying out from the light art exhibition through that dark looking bit over there we'll just have another one's around the outside this is again that flat side I said um I really enjoyed it I think it's good fun it's um it was only ever meant to be temporary so it's a bit of a shame it's not here for longer I appreciate it was never going to be here forever forever um I would normally at this point in the video say you know do come visit yourself but unfortunately this is like it's closing in about two or three days time so by the time you watch this video it will be closed so um you know like I say things like this come along and they're temporary visit them while you've got the chance because you know you don't know you I kept hearing it's the worst tourist attraction ever and I was like do I bother and uh highly and I thought no I ought to bother and see and make my own opinion and I think it's great well that's the more slopey side of the of the mound that actually looks like a mound it's quite funny looking at it there it's like half mound half um well let's hope it's been cut off at that point so from outside the Marlbark bus stands outside the mound I hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment from the mound goodbye