Shengshan island, Uninhabited Island, a fairy tale world
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Shengshan island, Uninhabited Island, a fairy tale world
Shengshan island, Uninhabited Island, a fairy tale world
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00:00Welcome to Trending Places.
00:05Today we will take you through Shengshan Island.
00:11China's forgotten village swallowed by nature.
00:17A village that previously housed more than 2,000 fishermen is now only home to a small number of inhabitants on Shengshan Island,
00:26which is located east of Shanghai, China.
00:33In Haotoumen, hundreds of tourists travel on crowded footpaths every day, passing the king homes that have been overtaken by vegetation.
00:43Early in the 1990s, residents of the secluded settlement, which was located on one of the more than 400 islands in the Shaanxi archipelago,
00:57left in an effort to put issues with education and food distribution behind them.
01:03Beginning in the early 1990s, locals began to emigrate from the island in search of a better life.
01:17The majority of the inhabitants had fled by 1994, and presently there are only a few left.
01:25Little whitewashed fingers protruding from the vegetation give the impression that there aren't many houses left,
01:35but as you go closer, the distinctive right angles and severe shadows of the buildings emerge from the vines.
01:43The fact that the gorge flowing down to the turbulent blue ocean is full of man-made structures that have been taken over by creeping ivy slowly becomes apparent.
01:58It's a scene of the beginning, man-fighting nature, a deserted town on a faraway island,
02:07and a cemetery community that conjures up the phrases, post-apocalyptic, and epic, in the imagination.
02:18Perhaps the six-hour drive from Shanghai is at fault, but it's epic, no doubt.
02:28This is Haotowin, the renowned Shengshan Island village that has been abandoned.
02:37The Zhushan Archipelago's version of a lost Mayan metropolis, known to the locals simply as Wuringkun,
02:45no-person village, has been the topic of national geographic articles and a number of travelogues authored by travelers.
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