Great Wall

Nothing evokes the grandeur of China more than the Great Wall. So it was with much anticipation that I was waiting to climb the wall. Andrea had already gone to the wall a previous weekend while I was at Qingdao but she went to Mutayun which didn’t quite capture the image of the Great Wall that she and I had because of the excess number of tourists and almost too well kept wall. So we took the less traveled road by hiking from Jingshaling to Simatai.

Our adventure started out by trying to find the bus station that would take us to the nearest town where we could catch a cab. Unfortunately, as we’ve come to know that the lonely Planet can’t quite keep up with the quick changing pace of Beijing, the bus station that was listed on our map was now a University. So we walked around a bit and ended up agreeing to paying a taxi driver to take us to Jingshaling then pick us up at Simatai.

Watch a short video documenting Andrea’s and my Great Wall Adventure below, or click here for the link.