The Great Wall Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text On our fourth day we took advantage of a tour organized by our hostel to "do" the Great Wall in a more hard-core way than most tourists. There are several sites where one can go to see the wall near Beijing, all about 2 hours away. Badaling and Mitanyu are supposed to be the most restored site, both packed with tourists. Simatai and Jinshanling are two relatively unrestored segments, with connected by about 10 km of nearly uninterrupted wall. So, the deal was that a bus would take us to Jinshanling and then pick up from Simatai five hours later. The hike between the two took us a little over four hours and was quite exhausting since you end up going up and down all the time. Thanks god it was early June - I wouldn't recommend this hike in July. The Great Wall doesn't change all that much from one kilometer to another, so we probably would have seen enough after an hour. Walking on it for four hours, however, is a good way to start appreciating the scale of the thing. For this reason, I present the reader with a somewhat repetitive collection of photos: as we saw it. <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_008_8293 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_023_8336 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_038_5562 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_012_5256 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_019_0855 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_031_9070 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_048_6790 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_067_2271 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_076_3582 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_087_1044 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_104_1498 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_096_2510 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_109_4430 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_114_5715 2006-06-05-the-wall/20060605_125_9481 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here save preview cancel
