Plan your Great Wall Tour? Currently the Great Wall of China is actually not a continuous wall unlike many people think. The Great Wall now exists in bits. For historical or tourism promotion reasons, these bits of the Great Wall are given numerous names. For the Great Wall around Beijing, people are most familiar with Juyongguan Great…
The Ming Great Wall at Bolitai Village Bolitai Village is nestled in a flat valley surrounded by the high mountains and dense forest with a zigzag highway passing from north to south in the valley, linking the village to the outside world. It is a beautiful village, looking like a paradise on earth. There are…
Today is Feb 17, 2011, the day for the Lantern Fesitval, also the last day of the two week Chinese New Year Period 2011. Though eager to return home for the family reunion on this special holiday, we all expect to visit Jiangjunguan Village and hike around the Jiangjunguan Great Wall, our last inspection spot…
Jiankou Great Wall is the greatest and most photogenic section of the Great Wall around Beijing. Jiankou Great Wall is wild and totally unrestored. The tumbledown and crumbling brickwork snakes along a narrow mountain ridge. So it is dangerous and treacherous to hike this section of the Wall. At the time of my writing, it is…
Plan your Great Wall tour? If you are interested in hiking a wild and unrestored section of the Great Wall, Shixiaguan Great Walll is your ideal choice. At the time of my writing, Shixiaguan Great Wall is the only unrestored Great Wall that is officially open to the public known as Ruined Badaling Great Wall…
Wangquanyu Great Wall lies to the west of Beijing Knot at Jiankou Great Wall and east of Lvanling Great Wall. Wangquanyu Great Wall is named after the the village with the same name – Wangquanyu Village at the Wangquanyu Valley. Wangquan Village is situated about 90km to the north of downtown Beijing. To get to Wangquan Village, you…
Plan your Beijing tour? Visiting the Great Wall of China is a must during your first trip to Beijing. Now you can either take a walk on the Great Wall or take a helicopter to view the Great Wall from the air. Beijing aerial tour of flyong over the Great Wall is an exhilarating experience…
When planning a Great Wall tour in Beijing, people often ask “which would you suggest Mutianyu Great Wall or Badaling Great Wall ?”. Actually both Mutianyu and Badaling are worth visiting. Some choose Mutianyu and others Badaling. They are two of the most visited sections of the Great Wall around Beijing. So which section you…