Abandoned Amusement Park

The following day from the Ice Festival, we went to an abandoned, half-built amusement park called "China's Wonderland". Apparently it was partly built in the 90s but never finished for some reason.

We got on another bus, but this one was not an express and was much slower than the last one. The country-side around this part of Beijing is quite hilly and steep, and there's clearly been farming for a very long time. Lots of terracing and alterations, old looking buildings and part of the Great Wall as a backdrop, it was a fun trip.

We got out of the bus, walked a bit and next to a petrol station was this place. From the front it looks pretty finished, there are buildings on either side, a car park, bridge across the highway. But once you get closer  you realise that's about all that's complete. All the other buildings are half-constructed frames or less in some cases. At the back of the site was a partly constructed Disneyland castle thing. The whole place was really eery.

We just wandered in past some people standing there (who it turns out are security guards and supposed to keep people out) and just had a look around. The place isn't big and we weren't allowed to (or physically couldn't in some cases) go into the buildings and I was scolded by a man wearing camoflage for climbing up a staircase.

I'm not sure that the photos do the place justice, it was really weird to be in this field, amongst these buildings with nothing really around. For a while after we arrived there was a woman on a loudspeaker yelling something from the village nearby, and we could just hear it when the wind blew our direction. It was very strange.
Here's my gallery from the place:

Abandoned Amusement Park

Once we got back we had to pack because we were leaving really early the next morning for Thailand! Getting back was pretty easy, we just walked back to the bus stop and got on the next bus to Beijing. Then we caught the train back with no problems.