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Great Wall

Great Wall

No trip is complete without this. I recommend going on your own so you can set your own schedule. We had a good time here, but then were dragged to a stupid 2 hour "shopping opportunity" that nobody wanted at a "Friendship Store" that charged literally 5 to 10 times the price in downtown Beijing.

All you can say after climbing this thing is that they really, really hated the Mongols, since it was hard enough to climb, let alone imagine building, carrying up each brick.

Looking up the long path.  It was hard enough to climb this thing, hard to imagine how they built it.
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Looking up the long path. It was hard enough to climb this thing, hard to imagine how they built it.
Get your Touristy Artware Momento here
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Get your Touristy Artware Momento here
Other side of the valley, we didn't climb this
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Other side of the valley, we didn't climb this
The great wall of tour buses
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The great wall of tour buses
Tourists prepare to climb the wall.
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Tourists prepare to climb the wall.
The wall goes ever on
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The wall goes ever on
From one of the towers, a shot of the wall continuing arranged to remove the modern items behind the wall.
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From one of the towers, a shot of the wall continuing arranged to remove the modern items behind the wall.
Looking down at the towers and the visitor center
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Looking down at the towers and the visitor center
A restored tower on the Ming wall
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A restored tower on the Ming wall
More tower shots
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More tower shots
Detail on the continuing wall
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Detail on the continuing wall
Even closer detail
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Even closer detail
And more
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And more
By 11am it becomes the great wall of tourists
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By 11am it becomes the great wall of tourists
Look at the traffic up the wall
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Look at the traffic up the wall
Battlement
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Battlement

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