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