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 The Great Wall seems to go on
forever. by Paul2001Leave a Comment
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The wall is much higher than it looks. We climbed the many steps to the first platform . Its important to remember ...what did we see at the top of our climb?? ...yet more sairs to the next platform ...so on an so on...for many many miles. No need to try to reach the end ...
Our legs were aching for days and we only climbed a minute part of this incredible wall.
It is a must do though and the view of the Wall is wonderful from the top.
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 The chance of a
lifetime... by Jeeem
So anyway, I'll put my two cents worth in about my tour trip to the Wall. I knew ahead of time that the Badaling section was wicked commercialised, but I really didn't care.
In a tour, you'll most likely only get about an hour and a half to explore the wall, take some pictures and spend your money on cheesy tourist gifts that line most of the Badaling section of the wall.
The more difficult side is to the left and the easier side is to the right. I can tell you this much.....in a foreign country where their language and written characters seem so bizarre and hard to understand, there is one universal symbol....
for PAIN.
Some of the stairs on the left side, take the word "steep" to a new level but you can only go just so far until you have to turn around, as there is a guard positioned at the end to keep people from traveling on beyond, where the more undeveloped section of the wall continues.
Although I just stuck to the short tour of Badaling, I was told it isn't too difficult to get a tour guide for the more difficult sections of the wall at Mutianyu or Simatai. Just ask your tour guide or the tour desk at your hotel. Leave a Comment
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 Beijing - China by solopesLeave a Comment
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according to wikipedia The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties.
No need to say that they are trying to protect themselves from Turkish tribes attack..
The Great Wall is the world's longest human-made structure, stretching over approximately 6,400 km from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia.The Ming Wall was guarded by more than one million men. It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part of the centuries-long project of building the wall.
It is amazing because personally I dont believe that turkish tribes at that time had a population of more 200.000!!! an 1000000 soldiers to protect the wall and 2-3 million chineses who died seems a little nonsense to me...anyway I am here again after 2500 years Address: badaling
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 great wall of china by dragontml
Badaling is the most famous of all due to its proximity to Beijing City and condition of restoration. The imposing Badaling Great Wall climbs up and down, twists and turns along the high mountain ridges.
Badaling Great Wall, with more than 1000 meters above sea level.
Badaling Great wall was built in the 18th year of the Ming Hong Zhi reign (1505). The wall, built with high stone slabs on the outside, is 7.8 meters high on the average, some even reaches 8.4meters. The base of the wall was built with more than 2000 large rectangular slab of granite stones. Leave a Comment
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 by SirRichard
The government has restored this part of the wall so that every tower and turret stands just as it did when the Mongols overran the country 700 years ago. Observation holes are available on the upper part of the battlements.
This section of the wall also houses a museum of Chinese history, which includes a photo gallery and the Great Wall Circle Vision Theater, a 360 degree amphitheater which shows a 15 minute film on the history and legends of the wall. Leave a Comment
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 by Natrix
What I think is most impressive about the Great Wall is the fact that it was man-made hundreds of years ago, the historical impact it has and of course the beautiful mountain view you have from it. Leave a Comment Directions: To get to Badaling you can either take a very expensive hotel-organized trip for around 300 Yuen(which I had to do unfortunately)or you can try to get there by yourself with one of the numerous buses
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As the guides say, this is very crowded but still worth the visit. I took a tour bus from the corner of the block SE of Tianneman square (160Y for great wall, lunch and Ming Tombes - about 8 hours in all leaving at about 8:30am). When you get there you can go left or right. Right seemed to be much more popular than left bt that's the way I went. Very steep climbing for about one km to the summit. Most people turn arround and come back the way they went. However, I think it is more fun to continue down the other side with almost no people (very steep in places though) until after about 700m you can exit to the right and return in about 10 minutes to the parking lot making it a nice round trip. I would allow about 2 hours. Water can be purchased at the bottom for less than 50c - more expensive higher up but don't accept the price that you are asked for as it is at least double what they will take. Its a agood work out! Address: Badaling
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