Post 908242 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #908236 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:00:42Z
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Gonna do a photo thread over this afternoon about when I visited Wonderland, the Chinese theme park that never got finished. My only real urbex experience really.
(DIR) Post #908237 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:02:02Z
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Wonderland was situated about half an hour out of Beijing to the north-west. I'd known about it for a while since I saw an article about it in some magazine. The whole place is gone now and there's a shopping centre there instead, but I managed to visit before too much more was knocked down.Photo is a pano of the car park. You can see the two large visitor centre buildings and an unfinished structure between, probably the park entrance.
(DIR) Post #908238 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:10:27Z
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The two visitor centres were almost complete, and you could get in easily as some of the larger doors had not been installed yet.
(DIR) Post #908239 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:33:16Z
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Close up of some of the roofing and walls, after we got up to the upper level and onto one of the roofs.
(DIR) Post #908240 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:37:24Z
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Long corridor with unfinished doorways, weird floor access.
(DIR) Post #908241 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:47:44Z
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Since development stopped and most of the park had not been built, farmers had moved in and started farming the land. In the distance you can see the Disney-style fairly palace. Some good pics of that later.Second pic, which I really love, shows a small shed or storage area with a door made from some of the roofing material.
(DIR) Post #908242 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:49:00Z
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Just noticed in that second pic the electricity cables hung in the trees in the background.
(DIR) Post #908243 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T15:55:53Z
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Graffiti inside the visitor centres.
(DIR) Post #908244 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T16:01:45Z
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Spooky overgrown courtyard. to the left, the main indoor area with open access. To the right, a separate building with locked doors. *Narrator voice* but not all the doors were locked
(DIR) Post #908246 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T16:08:28Z
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Top of a stairwell. Bottom of a stairwell.
(DIR) Post #908247 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T16:20:12Z
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Roofscape of the spooky courtyard after we got upstairs in the locked building and out onto the roof there.
(DIR) Post #908248 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T16:26:11Z
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A picture of insect tracks in the dust - there were no other footprints in the dust of this part of the building so nobody had been inside for years, it seems.Another couple of snaps of the farmland and a dismantled girder structure that I was hoping to see, but which had been taken down.
(DIR) Post #908249 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T16:29:14Z
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Finishing up with my favourite pic from this jaunt, a foreboding pic of the castle amid a cornfield underneath a gathering storm as the winds picked up. Got trapped by the rain exploring this castle, the upper levels of which were inaccessible and the lower level of which was just a giant empty pit.
(DIR) Post #908254 by tsu@pleroma.site
2018-11-01T20:10:32.620571Z
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@Alexmay sounds like a fun place to get caught in the rain. great photo
(DIR) Post #910063 by Alexmay@mastodon.social
2018-11-01T21:10:14Z
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@tsu Thanks! It was awesome, so cool. I met some Chinese kids there and I was like, pretty cool no? they were like, no it's boring
(DIR) Post #910064 by tsu@pleroma.site
2018-11-01T21:41:40.137786Z
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@Alexmay i guess i'm not surprised, not the same type of over stimulation video games/toys can offer. they'll probably appreciate it more when they're older