Coffin Village visit, 2014/04/02
Photos from a visit to Coffin Village, a small village with a long history.
Coffin Village is a small hamlet in the hills of Fangshan District, in the southwest corner of Beijing Municipality.
As well as a more modern precinct, the village contains some 100 old courtyard houses that date back to the Ming and Qing dynasties – some courtyards derelict, some courtyards still tidy and lived in.
On this trip we took a slow tour of the village, poking our noses into the old courtyards and climbing up into the hills behind the village for a better view.