Wednesday, December 21, 2011

China’s new ghost town: Wonderland in Beijing

Thu, 12/22/2011 - 04:57 — Anonymous Photographer Catherine Hyland discovers
a massive deserted theme park not far from the Great Wall Show map at bottom
of page CNNGo staff Ordos is history; the latest ghost town to be unearthed
in China is Nankou, 45 minutes' drive north of  Beijing. Located along the
highway to Badaling Great Wall, Nankou (南口镇) houses China's most
ambitious theme park attempt, which goes by the ironic name of Wonderland.
Now completely deserted among empty cornfields, back in 1996 the 123-hectare
Wonderland was pegged to be the biggest theme park in Asia in by
Thailand-based Reignwood Group.read more

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