Small Boy in Ghost City

Ghost City, Fengdu, Yangtze River, China

I was sorting through photographs of our 2008 trip to China a few days ago when I came across this image of a small boy squatting in a plant border next to a temple at Ghost City on the Yangtze River.  It was only later when my wife pointed it out that I realised what he was doing.

For the whole of our four day cruise on the Yangtze the weather was overcast and the atmosphere smoggy.  This added more than a little atmosphere during the stop at Fengdu to visit the Ghost City.

Fengdu is modelled after the Chinese Hell in Taoist mythology, built over 1800 years ago. The Ghost Town has become an island since the Three Gorges Dam project was completed, and  part of the ghost town of Fengdu has become submerged. Scenery above the “Door of Hell” has remained however.

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