{"id":8979,"date":"2018-11-01T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2022-03-31T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:13:22","slug":"liujiakou-great-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/china-travel\/great-wall-of-china\/liujiakou-great-wall","title":{"rendered":"Liujiakou Great Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Freshed up from yesterday’s great wall hiking, at 8:30am we start from our lodging hotel in city center of Qinhuangdao<\/a><\/span> for our first target today – Liujiakou Great Wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u00a0follow the\u00a0Jingha Expressway westward for 63km where we turn off the highway at Lulong County. Then we driver north to Liujiakou Great Wall. The whole driving distance is 92km.<\/p>\n

Liujiakou Great Wall is the most western section of the Great Wall within Qinhuangdao<\/a><\/span>. Liujiakou Great Wall is located in Liujiaying Village of Lulong County in Qinhuangdao<\/a><\/span>. Now we are driving on Luqing Road ( from Lulong County to Qinglong County),\u00a0an asphalt road passing several villages and towns before we reach Liujiakou Great Wall, a 29km drive.
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Liujiakou Great Wall on the Great Wall east of Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\n<\/span>Today is Saturday, a market day. Now\u00a0we drive though the main street of Panzhuang Town, where the street has become a fair. The street is\u00a0flanked by all kinds of vendors selling a rich variety of products and goods: saplings, vegetables, fruits, pork, and daily necessities. This scene could be hardly seen in the urban cities like Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A\u00a0vendor sells saplings on the fair.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A vendor sells saplings on the fair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Pork and vegetable on the market by the street.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pork and vegetable on the market by the street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Nowadays farmers are still not easy making a living.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nowadays farmers are still not easy making a living.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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We see a signboard with the name of Liujiaying Village. Now we are entering the area of Liujiaying Village, where Liujiakou Great wall is located.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We see a signboard with the name of Liujiaying Village<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\nNow we are in Liujiaying Village with the Jiujiakou Great Wall looming overhead.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Now we are in Liujiaying Village<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe two village\u00a0kids are born with the Great Wall. Are\u00a0they interested in the Great Wall next door? They are too young to know the history and the importance of the Great Wall which they see very day.<\/span><\/span>Will they keep staying at the village or go to the outside world like their big sisters and brothers after growing up? Some people want to make a living while some want to travel like us and many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The two village kids are born with the Great Wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Jiujiakou Great Wall is divided into two sections – east and west with the tower pass in the middle. The tower pass or Liujiakou Pass, or Liujia Pass still stands there, a miracle. From Liujiakou Pass, hiking to the west, you will get to Badaling Great Wall<\/a><\/span>; to the east, you will reach Qinhuangdao<\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The Luqing Road passes by the Liujiakou Pass at its west side. It is lucky that the tower hasn’t been turned down to make way for the road construction like many unlucky great wall forts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the towers in the east and west sections of the wall around Liujiakou Village are collapsed and disappeared. This tower is still well preserved mainly due to the fact in the past it has been used as a warehouse to store stacks of dry grass and woods.<\/p>\n

We are driving past the west side of the Liujiakou Pass on the Luqing Road.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We are driving past the west side of the Liujiakou Pass on the Luqing Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\nThen we turn off the road and drive slowly past the dry river winding under the Pass.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Then we turn off the road and drive slowly past the dry river winding under the Pass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\nWe walk down the dry river bed in front of the tower at its south side. It is a 6-eye ( six windows) tower pass spanning the river which is now dry.<\/span><\/span>The tower is 21.6m long, 10.6m wide and 16.7m high. The tower pass was rebuilt by the army and builders led by Qi Jiguang in the year 1579 in Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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We walk down the dry river bed in front of the tower at its south side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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As you can see, behind the tower, about 500m there is a quarry where stones are blasted, dug and cut for building materials. Its blasting reverberates the surrounding area, a severe damage to the great wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

But who cares? Stones cutting is more profitable than great wall tourism. The local people want to make a living. Economic development and environmental protection is a contradiction here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Further Readings<\/h2>\n
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How to visit Huangyaguan Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Panjiakou Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Xifengkou Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Baiyangyu Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Xuliukou Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Liujiakou Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Chengziyu Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Xiaohekou Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Zhuizishan Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Jiumenkou Great Wall<\/a>.
\nHow to visit Jiaoshan Great Wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freshed up from yesterday’s great wall hiking, at 8:30am we start from our lodging hotel in city center of Qinhuangdao for our first target today – Liujiakou Great Wall. We\u00a0follow the\u00a0Jingha Expressway westward for 63km where we turn off the highway at Lulong County. Then we driver north to Liujiakou Great Wall. The whole driving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[1733,1731,1732,1734],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-wall-of-china","category-beijing-great-wall","tag-how-to-visit-liujiakou-great-wall","tag-liujiakou","tag-liujiakou-village","tag-where-is-liujiakou-great-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31171,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/31171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}