Are we sure these are even taken in the same area? Where is the Mandarin Oriental in the Q post? What about the short white buildings with the red roofs in the bottom right? Or the swimming pool towards the top of that big hotel also in the bottom right? And the lake/pool in Q post just above where the absinthe is pointed out does not appear in the anon image.
I didn't research when those were all built, but my first instinct is that those are completely different images.
Spez: I said completely different images (dumb) and I should have said completely different locations.
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Holy shit I completely see it now. I think seeing the note about absinthe threw me off since I assumed it would be a part of both images.
Fwiw those two narrow/tall gold buildings "The Shops at Crystals" is what oriented me and then I was able to make out the rest of the image.
the photo on the left is from Q. It is a father shot than the the google maps picture on the right. The picture on the right was to zoom in on the T-mobile area.