Green ghost town: Nature overtakes an abandoned Chinese village

By Johnny Simon  on 
Green ghost town: Nature overtakes an abandoned Chinese village

Creeping vines and other flora have enveloped a small, formerly inhabited fishing village on Shengshan Island roughly 40 miles east of Shanghai, which is part of the Shengsi Islands, a chain of islands in China’s Zhejiang province.

The village along the northern bay of Shengshan Island was abandoned after its residents, mostly fishermen, left in the early 1990s. Take a look below to see what remains of this lush, green ghost town.

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