I was surprise when I saw this on the newspaper.

Already drawing the crowds in the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, this artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water.

Acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool. Incredible, right?

It took five years to build, cost nearly £1billion and the annual maintenance bill will be £2million. The pool uses a computer to controlled suction and filtration system to keep fresh seawater in permanent circulation, drawing it in from the ocean at one end and pumping it out at the other.

I wonder how expensive it going to cost me just to stay one night there. It was such a beautiful and magnificent architecture.
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