latest news from ghost alley #2

When I cycled through ghost alley at the end of January, I hadn’t done so for more than two months, and I quickly discovered that a spectacular new mural had been added in the interim:

“I have to stop and take some photos,” I said to my companion as soon as I saw it.

I reported the results in Latest News from Ghost Alley.

However, I missed another, almost equally impressive, mural, solely because we didn’t pass it when cycling. The next photo, from my first report on this remarkable location, illustrates the problem:

When cycling, I follow the path to the right of the painted house, but when I brought my cousin Dave here (on foot) about a week later, we left the area via the path to the left of the house because our next destination was a nearby Taoist monastery. This mural is located about 10–15 metres along that path:

I’ve included a view from both ends of the mural because it isn’t possible to include it all in a single front-on photograph. However, this is a front-on view of the central section to provide more detail:

The previous three photos were taken yesterday because I wasn’t happy with the ones I took when I first saw the mural. And I’m wondering how, on that earlier visit, I managed to miss this butterfly:

It is, of course, possible that it hadn’t been painted when I first passed this way—it is, after all, right next to the mural!

Incidentally, this rather quaint construction is located directly opposite the mural:

The Taoist monastery that I mentioned above can be seen in the distance.

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A note on names: this location is identified as ‘Ping Yeung Mural Village’ on Google Maps (Ping Yeung is the nearest village), but the group of artists responsible for all this imagery clearly considers it to be ‘Ping Che Mural Village’:

‘Ping Che’ appears to be a generic name for the entire area—Ping Che Road is the main road through the area—but I’ve never been able to locate a village with the name ‘Ping Che’ anywhere hereabouts. In any case, I will continue to refer to this outdoor art gallery as ‘ghost alley’, for reasons that I explained in Ghost Alley.

And if you’ve checked the links that I’ve provided here and would like to see more, then Ghost Alley Revisited and More from Ghost Alley will also be of interest.