Plan your trip to the Great Wall of China? There are many sections of the Wall to be visited starting from its eastern tip of the Head of Old Dragon at Shanhaiguan ( Shanhai Pass) in Qinhuangdao to its western end of Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province. Jiumenkou Great Wall was an important pass of…
Plan your Great Wall tour? If you are not interested in the restored sections of the Great Wall such as the Old Dragon Head, Jiaoshan Great Wall and Jiumenkou Great Wall, then you are suggested to drive about 40km from Jiumenkou Great Wall further north to Zhuizishan Great Wall. Zhuizishan Great Wall is located in…
Planning your Great Wall tour? If hiking on unrestored and original sections of the Wall is your main interest, then Chengziyu Great Wall is not to be missed. This section of the Great Wall lies to the west of Xiaohekou Great Wall. If you keep on walking from Chengziyu Great Wall to the west, you…
Xuliukou section of the Great Wall is just linked to the west section of Liujiakou Great Wall. We don’t have enough time to hike from Liujiakou Great Wall to Xuliukou Great Wall, instead again we drive from Liujiakou Village to Xuliukou Village where Xuliukou Great Wall is located. If you keep on hiking from Xuliukou Great…
Plan your Great Wall Tour? If you’d like to have a weekend hike on a wide and overgrown section of the Great Wall around Beijing, Baiyangyu Great Wall is highly recommended. This section of the Wall is located about 250km northeast of Beijing. It is under the administration of Dacuizhuang Town of Qian’an County in Tangshan…
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…