It's not Detroit, It's Christchurch

If only I had all the time in the world to explore this Urbex Jungle. Too bad I only had one day and one night to traverse in Wonderland.

I ain't guna post up all those touristy street photos that normal passerbys snap up while walking past. This is the inside of the mess, where I break into condemned buildings and see how things have stayed in a time capsule of Feb 22 2011. This is a panorama of the chaos, where I climb scaffolds and ladders onto rooftops of buildings being demolished. 

This is as busy as a city centre intersection gets on a Friday night in Ghost-town.

Rubble rubble everywhere, even from 3 stories up.

Christchurch City Skyline from 16 storey rooftop. 

The Millenium Hotel looked right in place in a zombie apocalypse.

The famous Christ"Church" from 8 stories high rooftop. (normal people only get to see the white fence)

Second scariest spot!

A wedding photo left in a painting shop

Cafe! With unopened bottles of Phoenix Ginger Beer. Too bad they expired 3 years ago...

A condemned pub. Walked into a hole inside!

The emptied Centennial Pools.

The Oaks Residences mailboxes

"Soapy's Laundromat"

Seems like many artists have been here.

More of what it was like INSIDE the aftermath, check out separate posts 

"Deloitte-Ful" 

http://littlegirlforgottenworld.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/deloitte-ful.html

"Yrnst and Eoung"

http://littlegirlforgottenworld.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/yrsnt-and-eoung.html 

Which were too big for this post!

Yrsnt and Eoung

I got to the rooftop just as the severe wind storm hit! This building with its shattered windows and dangling ceiling panels was the worst place to be when the news warns you about gale force winds!

Seriously the worst place to be in a windstorm. Even exorcists would've been freaked out at the howling winds and the ceiling boards smacking into each other with brutality.

Christchurch City skyline by day. Check out the Avon River and see if you can spot the Calendar Girls building (my favourite non-Urbex place in Christchurch)

Deloitte-Ful

These was the Deloitte offices trapped in a time capsule of Feb 2011. I got to witness what 3.5 year old bananas, coffees, salads looked like, as no one really came back in to remove it all. It was funny reading meeting notes, agendas, planners from Feb 2011, looking at such "old fashioned" non touch screen devices!

Asbesthospital

A little ramble on the history of this condemned beauty, no actually long story short: hospital too old, closed, government gave it to indigenous people they lived in it and trashed it, then the government had their little "omg not earth quake proof" stint and all the Maoris were chased out cuz these buildings were super hazardous in terms of earthquake, fire and asbestos and just general livability. But knowing the Maoris would just climb back in, the government double boarded up all windows and holes with plywood and corrugated iron, giving this beauty her scars. But the Maoris don't wanna pay to remove this mess so here it lies.

Walkabout Kaohsiung

I didn't know where to go, so I just walked the whole city till I could find what I wanted to see. 

I'd tell you about each and everyone of these buildings, but that would just ruin your imagination :)