After visting Baiyangyu Great Wall, we head to Panjiakou Great Wall, about 100km to the northeast of Baiyangyu Great Wall. We first take a 50km drive westward to Santunying Town, where we get off the New Sanwu Road and continue to drive 50km north towards Panjiakou Reservoir where the famous Panajiakou Underwater Great Wall is…
At 5:30 am we’ve luckily caught the rising sun over Panjiakou Great Wall, and we are back to our farmhouse at the foot of Panjiakou Great Wall. The distant water area on the right side of the farmhouse, you are still able to see the Great Wall submerged in water, the underwater great wall pass…
Huangyaguan ( Huangya Pass ) Great Wall is located 130km to the east of Beijing and 30km in the north of Ji County ( or Jixian County) in Tianjin. Huangyaguan Great Wall is a restored section of the Great Wall of China including a military fortress. It is a by-product of the massive rebuilding and revamping of the Great Wall of…
This month “Standard Administrative Penalties (Trial) assessed by Beijing Cultural Relics Adminstration” goes into effect. The new regulations clearly stipulate how to deal with the individual citizens and tourists who climb the wild sections of the Great Wall. Maximum penalty of RMB 500 on the individual hikers is levied on the wild Great Wall hiking behavior. A clear way of punishment…
Finally we ended our 6-hour hellish march from Gubeikou Great Wall to Jinshanling Great Wall at 5:00pm, September 26, 2010. But it’s not the end for us, it’s a new beginning since our next travel plan was to watch the sunset on the Great Wall, or specifically on the Jinshanling Great Wall. We were reminded by the ticket…
Heat wave started to hit Beijing from July 02. Yesterday the temperature reached over 40.03 degrees Celsius, the highest and the unprecedented in the past. Today is 39 degree Celsius. Beijing meteorological center has issued this year’s first orange-coded heat alert for today at 16:30. The high temperature will continue for a week. If you happen to…
The month-long 2010 World Cup “destroys” my routine life. But one thing I still keep on doing is reading. I’ve been reading a 410-page novel “The Great Wall” written by John Man. He is a great storyteller as well as a historian. John Man is an expert on the Great Wall of…
With the closure of Simatai Great Wall, the volume of hiking Jinshanling Great Wall will increase greatly. To have a snowball effect, the local Jinshanling adminstration stipulates that travelers can use one ticket for multi-day hiking at Jinshanling on the condition that they stay overnight at Jinshanling Hotel. Jinshanling and Simatai are the only…