It’s the third stop of our big road trip.
Huge halls, many machines and vehicles...
There's much to be discovered and barely any vandalism here.
This steel giant is an urbex dream come true!
And we’ve found the reason why everything is nearly untouched…
But let’s start at the beginning.
On a forum we saw impressive photographs of this industrial wasteland.
Next to old railway waggons you can find a lot of transport and construction vehicles in the outdoor area.
Inside the building there are huge factory halls and a big spare parts depot in the workshop.
This site is an abandoned sugar plant.
It’s a dangerous place - you should always look carefully where you step next.
Here it’s not unusual that the next level is several meters below you.
There’s plenty to discover on this vast site and we didn’t know where to look first.
After a couple of minutes we lost ourselves in these impressive dimensions…
…until the moment we got caught.
Suddenly there was a security guard in the factory hall shouting at us.
We didn’t want to make this bad situation even worse so we cooperated and he walked us out.
Initially he was armed with a baton but he had become friendly really quick when he realized that we were just taking photos.
A week ago he had caught another group of photographers in the building, he told us.
Security had become necessary here because there have been more and more thefts.
He escorted us to our car and took down our personal data.
Police didn’t get involved but we were barred from the place.
He said we will receive a letter with a bill - because we had to pay for the security operation
Up to 150 Euros – probably for all of us.
Reviewing the footage we could figure out what crucial mistake we had made.
The guard told us that we triggered a silent alarm and they saw us on camera.
While looking through the GoPro-footage we noticed this weird object which looks like it don’t belong here.
Probably it’s some kind of motion sensor.
No twenty minutes later after this shot the security arrived.
The hallway to the huge halls was so tight that we had to come by this motion sensor.
However, no letter arrived till today.
So...
I guess we were pretty lucky.