2 Day Hiking: Jiankou, Mutianyu, Jinshanling and Simatai West Great Wall
Overview
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Day By Day Itinerary
Day 01
Day 01 Hike from Jiankou to Mutianyu Great Wall ( 10km, 5 hours )
Picked from your downtown hotel in Beijing at 8:00am by our English speaking experienced great wall tour guide and have 2.5-hour drive to the starting point at Jiankou Great Wall. We will start to hike eastward around 10:30 from the unrestored Jiankou Great Wall to the restored Mutianyu Great Wall.
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For the first hour, we will clamber up the mountain and get to the wall atop the mountain ridge. Starting from Zhengbeilou Tower, then walk eastward ups and downs on the rugged wall along the mountain ridges past the wild and crumbling towers at Jiankou, and reach the restored and maginificent Mutianyu Great Wall. The hike takes about 4-5 hours for 8km trekking.
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One hour scale up a steep hill to reach the wall, 2 hour hike along the unrestored section starting from Zhengbeilou Tower at Jiankou (Not advisable to scramble the section between the Upward Flying Eagle Tower and Zhengbeilou Tower ) and 1-1.5 hour walk along restored section at Mutianyu (many other tourists). You may get down from the wall at Mutianyu on foot ( half hour walking down ) or take a cable car or toboggan. Cable car and toboggan are optional.
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Jiankou Great Wall is the greatest and most photogenic section of the Great Wall around Beijing. It is wild and totally unrestored. The tumbledown and crumbling brickwork snakes along a narrow mountain ridge. The Mutianyu Great Wall was built in 1404. The fortifications and the Great Wall here are featured by many watchtowers on overlapping mountain ranges. The wall, built with slabs of stone, is crenellated on both sides with bricks. The wall provided better protection and ward off attacks with Jiankou in the west and Gubeikou in the east.
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After the 5-hour hike, drive to Jinshanling local inn at the foot of Jinshanling Great Wall.
Meals: Picnic lunch and dinner
Walk from Jiankou to Mutianyu Great Wall
Jiankou Great Wall MapDay 02
Hike from Jinshanling Great Wall to Simatai West ( 5km, 3 hours )
After breakfast, start your Jinshanling Great Wall hike around 10:00 am. Today' hiking tour program includes the 3 hour's hike from the east section of the Jinshanling Great Wall to the west section of the Simatai Great Wall West for about 5 km ( 15 watchtowers ).
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There is a cableway up to the Jinshanling Great Wall. If you take a cable car up, you will skip over 5 watch towers. We suggest you choose to climb up the mountain, so you can trek across 15 towers and 2 passes. The fact is that it is quite easy to walk up to the mountain and start your Jinshanling Great Wall hike.
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The section of the Great Wall is wild, ruined, preserved, original and somewhere half restored with great photogenic opportunities. Basically it will take about 3 hours hiking along the wall. We have to get off the wall at Kylin Tower, and cannot hike to Simatai East Section direction due to the temporary closure of Simatai Great Wall.
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Haven a late afternoon local lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, transfer back to your hotel in Beijing.
Meals: Breakfast and Chinese lunch
Hike from Jinshanling to Simatai Great Wall Jinshanling Great Wall Map| Hotel Recommended | Jinshanling local inn |
| Remark: If one person prefers to stay in one room, the single room supplement must be paid. | |
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| Price inclusion: 1. Air conditioned vehicle 2. Meals as listed 3. Entrance fees 4. One night stay at Jinshanling Great Wall Hotel ( two sharing room ) 5. Englsih Speaking tour guide 6. The above private transfer is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group. |
Price exclusion: 1. Gratuities to drivers and guides. 2. Cable car at the Great Wall 3. Travel insurrance for your coverage of injury or accident |
Travel Notes:
1. Things to take: sports shoes or hiking boots, sticks, cap, sun-glasses, sunscreen, bottles of water, snacks, pocket knife, lip balm and first aid kit.
2. Using toilets at the entrance of the Wall No toilets on the hiking route. Please always carry toilet paper by yourself.
3. You will renturn to your hotel aroud 6:00pm depdending on the traffic and don't arrange any activity in the evening.
4. We have bottles of water in our car or van and please have bags to take them.
5. If you need trekking sticks, please let us know in advance.
6. Wearing pants and long-sleeves even in summer to hike through jungles and bushes.
7. You are responsible for your travel insurrance for your coverage of injury or accident.
8. Be a green and responsible hiker, takeing nothing but photos and leaving nothing but footprint.
Available:
Daily
Remark:
Our tour guide will contact you on the evening before your departure date by calling you or leaving a message at your hotel room and fix the pick-up time for next day morning
Reservation Notes
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| ● | When your booking is confirmed, you will get a confirmation email or call from us, which includes the confirmed detailed itinerary with prices. |
| ● | The cancellation fee: to be confirmed by trip advisor, based on different itineraries and different policies. |
| ● | The schedule can be adjusted by your tour guide due to the actual traffic condition. |
| ● | You are strongly recommended to book this tour at least 35 days in advance to secure the land arrangement involved and avoid the risk of being canceled. |
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