*sorry for spelling mistakes, its cold!* Hello It's a tad warmer today so I'm free to write up about our last few days in Beijing... We got up at 6 for our Great Wall trek, it was a big group, about 16 or so. It took about three hours in a bus to drive a herd of groggy travellers to the great wall in the freezing cold - no snow, but cold enough to make everything pretty much totally numb. The initial walk up was murder, but once we got onto the wall itself we saw a pattern emerging; up, then down, then up further, then down, then up etc. etc. The wall itself was amazing and the views were spectacular, we've got lots of photos of it so don't worry. And an aside about photos,
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