Tag: Luane’s World

It was back to Luane’s World for a summer visit for me – it’s nice to drop in at least twice a year to see what LuaneMeo has cooked up for her public region of Le Monde Perdu, although I admit it’s been a couple of years since my last summer visit!

For 2026, Luane, with the assistance of Gorba McMahon, presents visitors with an island wrapping a Mediterranean feel about it, the two major buildings sitting upon it hinting at places such as Tuscany and the South of France. The island sits with its back towards the residential regions of Luane’s World, its northern side marked by rocky walls sitting above a shingle and grass coastline.

These modest cliffs mark the raise spine of the island, a flat top comprising a pair of flat plateaux of grass and trees on which the houses are located, one to the east and the other to the west, the land sloping down from them to the south to join the golden sands of a beach. The latter forms two south-pointing headlands which give the island an overall C-shape, an inlet cutting into it to form an almost heart-shaped bay, the entrance to which is marked by an offshore lighthouse.

The Landing Point is located on the flagstone terrace of the house to the east side of the island and which in part forms the rental office for the residential aspects of the estate as well as a little café with seating on the terrace outside.

A small barn with fence meadow sits at the end of the elevated land sufficiently clear of the house so as not to crowd it, and a horse rezzer is available there for those who might not wish to walk around the island – the landscape does make for comfortable riding.

A path runs from the back of the house to a set of steps leading down to Luane’s usual bridge across the waters to the rest of the estate. This does contain public paths explorers are free to follow – but do please keep in mind the houses found along the paths are private residences  🙂 .

A second path runs westwards from the house, crossing the grounds to reach a fence guarding against any risk of falling into the gorge cutting but the two plateaux from north to south, connecting the lowlands on either side. A gently humped bridge spans the gorge, allowing the path to continue onwards to the west, where it skirts around the second house.

Sitting in its own wall garden, the latter commands a view out over the beaches and the bay and is charmingly furnished. Across the track from it, the rest of the plateau offers a grassy retreat with the ruins of a cottage and places to sit. A little summer house sits in the lee of the plateau on its north side, just past the point where the sands of the beaches give way to the shingle of the north coast.

These sands can be reached via steps descending the hill from a point just past the house with its walled garden. However, do not expect your passage past the house to go unnoticed – feline eyes keep a careful watch on all comings and goings! And keep an eye out for the rabbits ready to announce “You’ve got mail!” to whomever lives inside 🙂 .

The western arc of the beach provides the broadest expanse of sands, although this is somewhat broken up by a rising mound of gassy land and rock crowned with young trees and where a small pool house has been built on a shoulder of rock, and the (tide-formed?) cave beneath it turned into a cosy and no doubt cool hideaway.

That the sea has worked on the island can be seen from around the foot of the hills and the back of the beaches, where the sand had been compacted by decades of water and then cut into stratified blocks which become quite tall on the eastern arc of the bay.

The headland to the east also has a rise of grassy land sitting within the cure of the beach, and this is home to a little hut sitting with its back towards the bay so that its small deck offers a view out across more open waters.

The bay is obviously a popular place, with opportunities for sunbathing on the sands or splashing about on the water courtesy of floats and the like. A small wooden jetty offers and inflatable boat rezzer for a pootle on the water (mind any swimmers!), whilst a sign offers the same but using a kayak, and a handful of rowing boats scattered around the shallows of the island offer places to sit and relax as well.

The beach and boats are not the only places to sit outdoors, there are benches, seats, blankets, daybeds, gazebos, and swings all awaiting use to be found right across the island, each of them offering a view and /or a place to retreat.

I’ve been covering Le Monde Perdu and Luane’s work for a decade now, and have always appreciated the sense of life she brings to her region designs through her sculpting of the landscape, the flora she puts out across it and her use of animals and wildlife. They are all perfectly blended to present a setting entirely natural in scope and content, never feeling forced or laboured in achieving its goal to encourage people to feel at home, relax, explore and perhaps have a little fun.

In short, Le Monde Perdu Summer 2026 continues the region’s reputation as an absolute delight.

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• Luane’s World – Le Monde Perdu (rated Moderate)

It has been a fair while since my last visit to Luane’s World, the estate held and operated by LuaneMeo and her publicly-accessible Full region, Le Monde Perdu (The Lost World). It was summertime 2024 when I made that last visit, so with winter now dominating Second Life, a return for a Christmas-time blog post seemed to be in order.

The lake that often forms a part of the region remains with the latest iteration, but is now frozen, offering a place to go skating. Cabins sit to either side of the lake, with the Landing Point on a third side.

Taking the form of a winter market where hot drinks and more might be found, the Landing Point sits under an awning of lights. A small deck offers skates for those who wish to head out onto the ice. For those who prefer their skating on a smaller scale, a wooden gazebo sits to one end of the little market with an ice rink under its awnings. It is located alongside a large Ferris wheel waiting to give visitors a ride.

At the opposite end of the market area, a covered bridge allows explorers to continue onwards around the lake-edge trail. This leads past steps climbing to one of two chapels in the setting, this one ready for services and guarded by a cat.

Beyond the chapel, the trail winds past one of the two cabins mentioned above, turning away from the lake as it does so before branching. One part of the trail then climbs the setting’s uplands via log steps set into a relatively gentle slope, while the other offers the way to the bridge connecting the region with the rest of the estate, a shrine-like folly looking out over the water close by for those who seek it.

The path along the uplands runs around to the north, passing cabins among the trees there, including the one directly overlooking the lake, and which has a stairway leading down to a deck close to the water’s edge. None of the cabins are private, allowing them to present visitors with places to rest and enjoy company.

Continuing westwards, the path ends abruptly at a sheer cliff, the land dropping to a gorge-like valley through which water would normally flow between the lake and the open sea, but now sits frozen. A tall bridge spans the valley to reach the far side, where a snowy path curls up to the setting’s second chapel.

However, this is not a place of worship; it has been converted into a place where beverages of an alcoholic nature might be imbibed and pool played. These probably explain why Santa is circling overhead in his sleigh (and presumably awaiting clearance to land) – after a busy night zipping around the world delivering presents, the old chap justifiably deserves a drink or two! As well as being reached on foot by the path just described, the chapel bar is also connected to the lowlands by a ski lift as it shuffles back and forth between the bar and a spot close to the Ferris wheel.

Another path, this one marked marked by footprints and a sign pointing to the North Pole, runs west from the bottom of the ski lift and out to the icy edge of the region (say “hi!” to the little Santas having some fun along the way).

The ice floes are home to dogs having snowball fights or sleeping in igloos. Further around the ice and cliffs, that familiar SL anachronism of polar bears and penguins mixing together can be found; in this case the penguins are having fun with their versions of skating and sledding while the polar bears appear mostly interested in having fun with Christmas lights.

Throughout the setting are multiple places to sit and pass the time, watch the skaters on the lake or observe the local wildlife, while the familiar hot air balloon sits overhead awaiting anyone wishing to pose in it. Walks can be had around much of edge of the setting and there are touches of detail waiting to be found – such as the little Santa figures I’ve mentioned.

And of course, the entire region is highly photogenic, so have fun exploring!

Maison de L’amitie (home/house/companion of friendship) is a Homestead region held by Corina Wonder I’ve been prone to dropping into on an irregular basis over the last several years. Throughout most of those visits, the region’s design has been the work of Corina herself, and has always presented photogenic setting, sometimes inspired by physical world locations (such as her 20219 recreation Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, which I covered here).

However, in dropping in to it at the start of March 2025, I was interested to note that while Corina still holds the region, the setting it presented is the work of LuaneMeo (holder and co-creator of Luane’s World, an oft-featured setting in these pages) and her frequent region design partner, Gorba McMahon. However, given the time since my last visit, I’m not sure if this is a new arrangement or one that has been going on for a while; not that it i important – the region remains as engaging as it every has been.

With spring starting to make its presence felt in many parts of the northern hemisphere, Maison de L’amitie presents a setting in keeping with the season – and one potential suitable for summer as well. The landscape is split into three: a large, main island and two smaller off-shoots looking as if they might have once been connected to one another and the main island, but which now sit just of the coast, low grassy / sandy humps just peeping above the waves enough to entice people to visit.

And visit they can; along the beach of the southern coast of the main island are a couple of wooden decks extending out over the blue waters (one so low in fact that it looks like its might be considering going for a swim!).

The larger of the two decks offers a little wooden boat with outboard motor to putter across the bay to either of the little islands, whilst the smaller of the two has an inflatable boat rezzer disguised as a life ring. Copies of the latter can be found on both of the smaller islands, thus allowing visitors to make their way back to the larger after explorations of the little isles has left them sans their original transport.

These two smaller islands are very individual in their looks. One is little more than a sandbar valiantly fighting the erosion of time and tide as they slowly but inevitably lays claim to its sands. An old adobe walled shack sits on the back of the island, now converted into a surfing shack and carrying various nautical-theme decorations within itself, a surfboard / paddle board propped again an outside wall together with a couple of paddles – the latter presumably waiting for someone to grab one of them and use with the board, the waters perhaps being far too peaceful for any actual surfing.

The second of these smaller islands is a little more substantial, a good portion of it formed by a grassy-haired table of flat rock sitting with an crescent of sand around one side. Trees have gathered around the remnants of a building here which, from the main island, might have the appearance of an old chapel long ago fallen into disuse and collapse. Within its shell someone  has built a little lean-to as a shelter and both it and the chapel-like window opening high on the wall offer places to sit.

The main island sits much higher above the water and is almost completely hemmed by a ribbon of beach running around its edge, the sands flattening and flaring out at the island’s southern extent to form a beachy promontory, its southern tip curling slightly towards the sandbar and  its shack, as if trying to reconnect to them.

It’s fairly clear from the compressed and sedimented layers of the exposed sandstone behind the southern arc of the beach, that this island has faced its share of inclement weather down the years sufficient enough to leave its mark in the exposed rock. However, this has not prevented the island becoming an attractive home and place for tourists to appreciate; the gentle rise and curl of its grass-covered back is home to a rich variety of trees and, around them, the vibrant colours of flowers in full bloom. This flowers seem to ebb and flow across the island’s middle saddle as it separates a large and beflowered stone house on the western uplands from the Tuscan-style villa to the east, the latter perfectly sited to look out over the beach’s broad headland.

The villa forms both the region’s Landing Point and a little café with both an outdoor terrace and upper balcony / rooftop seating area. The house across the island, meanwhile, offers a cosy, furnished retreat in which friendly conversation can be had in the conservatory or a game of backgammon enjoyed in the lounge, while upstairs a photographer’s studio awaits the return of its owner.

It is on the main island that the rich detail – evident throughout the setting – really comes into its own, Luane and Gorba having worked hard to imbue the island with a rich sense of life with details large and small. Signs of human habitation can be found all around the beach, as well as at the house and café (and the latter’s nearby neighbour); there are multiple places to sit and pass the time from deck chairs under parasols to lounger behind windbreaks to a touch of Californian surfin’ sixties, courtesy of an old VW camper offering a little beach-top surf retreat with a waiting picnic (and not the only picnic spot awaiting discovery at that!). Further around the sands to the north sits a tuk-tuk van both continuing the surf theme and offering a cosy retreat of its own.

Up on the island’s back, meanwhile, sheep peacefully graze, birds sing and pose on boughs as if awaiting their close-ups, butterflies add their own splashes of colour among the flowers, while swings, hammocks and canopied loungers offer places to set and contemplate the view and the setting. Overhead, an eagle circles on the updraughts created by the passage of wind up and over the island’s spine, aloof from the cawing and crying of the gulls over and on the beach.

Visually appealing, rich in colour, details and ambient sounds, Maison de L’amitie remains a thoroughly engaging visit.

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• Maison de L’amitie (Dekade, rated Moderate)

‘Twas off back to Luane’s World at Le Monde Perdu for me at the start of December, and a visit to LuaneMeo’s always-engaging public region.

As one might expect given it’s the end of the year, the region has been redressed for a northern hemisphere winter, with Luane working with Gorba McMahon to bring visitors a lot to see and do within and snow-covered landscape.

A white winter blanket has settled over Luane’s World, a Nordic-inspired haven with charming red houses by a frozen lake. Explore the illuminated Christmas market in the village, then take a chairlift to a cosy mountain bar. Ski or sledge through snowy forests and down to the rocky shore to uncover a stunning ice cave with a museum of ice statues. On the island’s other side, visit a quaint fishing hamlet with a rugged, captivating atmosphere. Wonders await—so wander, explore, and enjoy!

– Luane’s World – Le Monde Perdu Winter 2024 description

For this iteration of the region, the land forms and inverted U around a cold water bay, watched over from the south by two mountainous off-region islands. The landing point is located on the western headland, where stands a little Nordic-style village with something of a carnival atmosphere about it. A Ferris wheel offers rides, the houses are cosy and warm, and a little skating rink has been set-up, complete with little stalls selling refreshments and goodies to keep people warm, with plenty of seating scattered around.

Low-lying, the headland and village overlook the semi-frozen waters of the bay, with the second headland away to the east also marked by buildings, these built right against the shoreline. To reach them, people can either make their way around the region on foot (or using one of the forms of land transport dotted around!), or they can cross the bay directly using either an inflatable boat or – in quite a novel option – by taking a bumper car over the ice!

When crossing the water, I’d advise saying clear of the polar bears out on the larger ice floes; they might look cuts and cuddly, but my experience (such as it is) is that you can never be sure that if one mentions “lunch” to you, it is and invitation or a recognition that you’re edible 😀 .

The buildings on the far side of the bay form a little fishing locale; it appears to be largely closed for the season in terms of actual fishing, but the cabins are warm and the puffins are hopeful you might have a treat for them!

A well-defined track runs between the village and the fishing shacks, following the curve of the bay as it does so. Along the way, the path passes a chai lift climbing up the local peak. At the top, a bar awaits as Santa flies past outside, and people can catch a drink or head out skiing or sledding. Two routes for the latter ware available: either back downslope or a little backcountry skiing / sledding along the northern ridgeline of cliffs.

Another trail zig-zags down the eastern extent of the ridge, linking once more with the lowland trails and paths. Little cottages sit in the lee of the cliffs,  each one offering a warm welcome – and one with a slightly lewd snowman outside! The last of these cottages forms a literal log house. It sits across the lane from a tall A-frame cabin, complete with a red and white jacket, pants and hat are drying on the line, suggesting that prior to taking to the air in his sleigh once more, Santa may have stopped off for a change of clothes!

Throughout all of this, the landscaping is simply perfect, the snow falls gently and the wildlife obligingly poses for photographs. As well as  all the activities available, the setting offers opportunities to simply sit and pass the time, either indoors or outdoors, with some nicely tucked away for those wanting a little privacy.

Luane notes that PBR materials are used within the region, and the note suggests these may not have Blinn-Phong fallbacks; so if you are on a non-PBR viewer, you may see “missing textures”.

It’s always a pleasure to visit Luane’s world at Le Monde Pedu, so I have no hesitation in recommending it as a winter destination for your travels. While visiting, keep your eyes open for the little touches of humour scattered around – the aforementioned snowman, for example, together with the little birds dressed for the festive season; but most of all – enjoy!

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• Luane’s World – Le Monde Perdu (rated Moderate)

Summer has brought with it time for me to make a visit to Luane’s World, the estate held and operated by LuaneMeo and her publicly-accessible Full region – Le Monde Perdu (The Lost World). It’s been a while since my last visit, and the region has been beautifully redressed for the summer, offering a mix of a beachy cove, woodlands, a lake, and open lands cut through by a mix of streams and footpaths.

The landing point sits on a ridge which runs from east to west across the landscape, rising from each coast to form high cliffs overlooking the beach with is deep-cut cove to the south, whilst falling more gently away to the north west to meet the lowlands. The upper reach of this ridge is home to the region’s landing point. This provides information on the estate’s rentals, a teleport board (including the the sky region destination and the store space Luane shares with Méli-Mélo). A further board provides information on the region’s photo contest running through to August 12th, 2024, of which more below.

There are two main ways down from the ridge, again to the east and west. The former descends via a trail and steps cut into the hill slopes before crossing one of the region’s streams to provide access to the east side of the cove and the beach. Along the way it is possible to turn north and access the lowlands, where multiple places to sit and pass the time might be found along the hill slopes.

To the west, the slope proceeds gently down in a gentle curve to the south, eventually meeting with the beach, the foot of the sandy hill sculpted by successive tides. Again there are multiple places to sit along the way – including a cosy summer house – whilst steps cut into the north slope again provide access to the northern lowlands.

Facing off-region islands, the beach and cove are naturally formed, the beach offering a gentle sandy walk under the lee of the cliffs before shelving away sharply under the surf to form a deep water bay that’s home to orca, fish, an ancient wreck and a great white minding its own business. The fact that it is seemingly content to keep to itself will likely be good news to those who wish to take a dip or make use of the lidos, floating seats and rings in the water. For those of a less daring disposition, a RHIB sits in the bay, one of several boats around the region, and offering a place from where the local rays can be watched.

With all these sights and locations the beach and cove are attractive and photogenic and certainly not not be missed. However, given I’m personally not a great beach person, the north side of the region with its lush grassland, trees and flower, is the real attraction. The lake takes up a good portion of the north-west side of the setting, and while it may not have the richness of undersea life within it, it is still the home for swans, geese and turtles, as well as offering the opportunity to take a swan boat out on the water from the dock alongside of the lakeside cottage.

The latter is a cosily-furnished mix of home and studio, a wooden boardwalk winding from its and front door to pass around the edge of the lake, paths here and there offering ways up the slopes behind. Making its way past another deck, the boardwalk eventually climbs steps up to another platform at the eastern extent of the lake, where gates set into a high, ivy-draped wall close by provide access to the lands beyond the lake. Although before passing through them, there is also the opportunity to take a walk around the north shore of the lake, which is again photogenic and relaxing.

For those who don’t fancy walking all around the region, horse rezzers available, although walking perhaps offers the best opportunity to catch sight of all the animals and birds also occupying the setting. for those would would like to the the region as a bird might, then the hot air balloon floating to the north-east might be attractive. As already noted, the region is rich in places to sit throughout, on the beach, around the lake, on the hill slopes, and so on, although I particularly enjoyed the Café de Paris, tucked into a corner of the region and guarding the path leading to / from the familiar bridge connecting le Monde Perdu with the rest of the region.

Photo Contest

Running through until Monday, August 12th, 2024, the Luane’s World / Le Monde Perdu photo contest offers a prize pool of L$ 8,000 plus a  choice of pose packs from Méli-Mélo and Luanes Poses. Full details and rules can be obtained from the contest board at the region’s landing point, but in short:

• Up to three entries per person may be submitted.
• Entered photographs must:
  • Be taken within Luane’s World ground-level setting (not Luane’s Magical World, the sky-bound setting) and be clearly recognisable as having been taken within the region.
  • Have a primary focus on the landscape (although avatars can be show in images, they should not be the focus).
  • Not include porn, obscenity, racism, child play, or violence. doing so will result in automatic disqualification.

• Entries:
  • Are made via the Luanes World – Le Monde Perdu Flickr group.
  • Mist be set to Public viewing.
  • Must be labelled LUANES WORLD – LE MONDE PERDU PHOTO CONTEST Summer 2024, followed by any title you wish to give the image and then 1, 2 or 3 if you submit multiple entries. the SLurl to the region must also be given within the image description.

Good luck to all who enter.

All of Luane’s designs, developed with Gorba McMahon, are eye-catching, highly photogenic and created with keen eyes for detail. Summer 2024 is no exception to this, and I highly recommend a visit.

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• Luane’s World (le Monde Perdu, rated Adult)