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The Great Wall of China — Beijing, China

Source: Travel Pod

Nov 07, 2009

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Beijing, China

On our final day together we went to the Great Wall of China. After a 5.30AM start (ouch!) we were driven out to Simatai, about a three hour drive from Beijing, to the start of the wall. There are sections of the wall that are nearer to Beijing, but these apparently get really congested and the Simatai section is more spectacular. This was obvious from the moment we got our first glimpse of the wall from the bus; it stands at the top of the mountains snaking across into the distance and is just breath taking to look at.

We arrived at the Wall at about 9am and were given four and a half hours to go from Stages 1 to 12 and back again. After a somewhat precarious cable car ride, followed by a venicular railway and a pretty steep scramble, I was on the Wall!

The section of the wall that we climbed was very well preserved at the bottom with steps and steep walls either side, but beyond about Stage 4 the steps turned into steep slopes and the walls keeping you f ...Read the full article

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