Plan your Great Wall Tour? There are mainly 16 sections of Great Wall in Beijing, including sections of Badaling, Juyongguan, Simatai, Jinshanling, Mutianyu, Gubeikou, Jiankou and Huanghuacheng. Among the 16 sections of Great Wall, the first five sections are very famous and visited by travelers every year. Different Great Wall sections have different features. So which section…
Lianyunling Great Wall is located on the Lianyunling Mountain to the northwest of Moshikou Pass. “Lianyuling” iterally means “a ridge linked to the sky”. That indicates the steepness of the mountain. Now Lianyunlian Great Wall is blocked and forbidden for hiking for security reason. But this section of the Wall can be easily seen and…
This month “Standard Administrative Penalties (Trial) assessed by Beijing Cultural Relics Adminstration” goes into effect. The new regulations clearly stipulate how to deal with the individual citizens and tourists who climb the wild sections of the Great Wall. Maximum penalty of RMB 500 on the individual hikers is levied on the wild Great Wall hiking behavior. A clear way of punishment…
This morning I receive an email from Annette and Scott Kern, who have just made a wonderful trip to Great Wall – Jinshanling Great Wall and Gubeikou Great Wall. Especially Gubeikou Great Wall has greatly impressed them, less touristy and most original! Annette and Scott Kern are very kind to have sent us some of their…
Finally we ended our 6-hour hellish march from Gubeikou Great Wall to Jinshanling Great Wall at 5:00pm, September 26, 2010. But it’s not the end for us, it’s a new beginning since our next travel plan was to watch the sunset on the Great Wall, or specifically on the Jinshanling Great Wall. We were reminded by the ticket…
The month-long 2010 World Cup “destroys” my routine life. But one thing I still keep on doing is reading. I’ve been reading a 410-page novel “The Great Wall” written by John Man. He is a great storyteller as well as a historian. John Man is an expert on the Great Wall of…
With the closure of Simatai Great Wall, the volume of hiking Jinshanling Great Wall will increase greatly. To have a snowball effect, the local Jinshanling adminstration stipulates that travelers can use one ticket for multi-day hiking at Jinshanling on the condition that they stay overnight at Jinshanling Hotel. Jinshanling and Simatai are the only…
On June 10, 2010, we got a fax from Simatai Great Wall Administration to the effect that Simatai Great Wall is going to be closed since June 17, 2010 for the local government is going to rebuild Simatai Scenic Area and the opening date is unknown. We were all shocked at the disappointing news….