Tales of the Urban Explorer: Return to Kruger Tissue International

*Kruger Tissue International*’, it had been four years since I had driven down the shaky, muddy road and deliberately parked my car a good half mile from the entrance. That’s the good thing about a re-visit: you are armed with at least some knowledge of how to get in and what to look out for. However, this was not a simple revisit. This industrial behemoth was far too large for a single sitting, and the first time around, I was solo and got spooked after an hour of near-complete silence broken by the howling wind, rusty corrugated iron groaning and the fear of security. Both @anidiotexplores and I had been here before [independently](https://peakd.com/hive-104387/@slobberchops/tales-of-the-urban-explorer-kruger-tissue-industrial), him setting off the alarms and me miraculously avoiding tripping any. Within months, we were collaborating, and ‘*Kruger Tissue International*’ was always going to come up on the menu again particularly as neither of us managed **ALL** of it. The weather was shit, rain was threatening, and normally I would abandon the day as I am strictly a fair-weather explorer.  Taking a decent cover photo of ‘*Kruger Tissue International*’ is nigh impossible. It’s massive and in a valley with no decent viewpoints whatsoever. It's those dodgy-looking buildings in the background and that is as good as it gets. We entered via the side, down a slippery bank, knowing full well there were cameras, and the security likely had not lapsed. It was a question of getting in the closest building and hoping we had not been picked up on their cameras. Making our way through the areas I had done previously, we came to yet more broken-down buildings deeper in the valley, ones we had never seen before. It was to come at a cost.  I had not seen an array of bottles with suspicious looking contents since long ago in Bradford, in the basement of an old factory. Could they be drinkable, were they penis enlargement potions? I figure yes.   Already, I could see the deeper valley sights of ‘*Kruger Tissue International*’ were going to be like the higher ones, and that’s not a bad thing. The entire complex was older and more wrecked, but security has stopped it from being vandalised.  So coated with shit that you can’t make out what they were used for.   ‘*Kruger Tissue International*’ always had plenty of stairs, mostly metal ones that don’t collapse when you set foot on them.  Dungeons were also common, with a big light being needed. @anidiotexplorers tends to bring shit lighting, those pound shop lights work for around 10 minutes before shutting off.  Ooo.. some nice graffiti. If just shows that if you can get here undetected, […]