Polite and knowledgeable tour guides are much sought after by foreign tourists who want to hire private tour guides to make most of their trips to Beijing China. So, how to find these helpful and resourceful tour guides? Usually foreign tourists rely on the following channels to locate private tour guides: 1) Travel Forum and Travel Review Websites: like Tripadvisors.com, Virtualtourist.com…
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….