http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Beijing , Great Wall of China en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:22:04 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:22:04 UTC I'm engaged I never new Nicko was so romantic he has been waiting for some thime to do that and said he couldn't have done it anywhere else. I have wanted to see the Great Wall of China since i was a little girl and my Dad use to tell me stories of Gengas Karn can't spell. I have to tell you it is wonderful the best wounder of the world i have seen so far. I had the best day ever I was so excit http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-349220.html Our Trip to China MarieJeanne and I are about to leave for China mainly to visit our son James his wife MaggieTai and our grandchildren Emi and Tuck who are twins and are nearly five years old. James is vicepresident for Asia for PopCap Games and has opened an office in Shanghai where they are making video games for the Asian market and also selling PopCap games to Asia. We are curious h http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-346285.html Hello everyone following our travelsWe are still in Beijing but leaving in a couple of hours to go to Xi'an. So we thought now would be a good time to catch up on la blog before we have to run for the trainSince we last wrote we have been to the Great Wall of China We went to a section at Ba Da Ling which is about one hour from Beijing it cost us about 1.20 sterling to get the public bus. It http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-345275.html Our first encounter with China's Great Wall and a thousand steps to pain ......Isaac Newton Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla all made serious studies of gravity. I curse them. If we understood less about this phenomena of attraction between mass bodies then perhaps we would not be so affected by it. Weight science tells us is determined by the acceleration of objects under the influence of http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-344528.html Km travelled 1462005.11.08Our room has no windows it's hard to say if it's day or night sunny or rainy. We wake up early. In the toilet I find the third Chinese girl in two days brushing her teeth while hundreds of litres of water run away unnoticed. Why do you have to ruin my day so early Give me a break I know I'm a pain. Everyone is.At 8.00 we're waiting in the hostel hall. Our guide Benn http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-344029.html Once we had seen all that Beijing had to offer it was time to head north and visit the Great Wall of China. We travelled from our hostel in central Beijing to a less popular section of the wall at Simatai. This section was selected because it would make for a more pleasant trek free from hoards of other tourists. The trek was to last around three hours mostly uphill. Luckily my buns of steel wo http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-342201.html Our second day in Beijing went much more smoothly than yesterday. We left early for the Great Wall and stopped at a jade factory along the way. Very beautiful pieces and got to see workers carving the jade. I came away with a small piece of white jade which is the color of jade found near Beijing in the shape of a cabbage. In Feng Shui the cabbage represents prosperity since the Chinese wo http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-340639.html Whazzup everyoneI believe that everyone should one day in their life vist a 7 Wonderbe it the old group or the new Seven Wonders of the world....I now open my peep window for you to share my memories of Beautiful Beijing. January 2007 saw me find my way to one of worlds greatest man made structureswhich is none other than the Great Wall of China.. what amazed me the most is that it goes on fo http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-340520.html Being trekking experts now after Siberia haha not instead of doing the normal trip to the closest part of the Wall to Beijing....we travelled nearly 4 hours to Jinshangling to do a 10km hike route to Simatai.We were thinking....'well its a wall....so it couldnt be harder than trekking up a mountain in Siberia'......oh how wrong we were There were some incredibly steep parts...over half way http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-339528.html Day 3. Friday in BeijingSorry for the delay but we have been very busy and have limited internet access only in the hotel at night. The hotel is one of the finest each of us has ever stayed in. The food breakfast is amazing we had a choice of full western buffet a full Chinese buffet Indian food sushi fresh salad bar fruit cheese fresh breads and pastries smoked fish pickled stuff http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-336151.html Great Wall at Jinshanling and Simatai. This was a must see The Great Wall was amazing. Being able to take pictures of the Wall without anyone in the background was a bonus. After chatting with Apple at Backpackers hostel it was a better idea joining this tour up to the Great Wall because by the time we pay for a ride up and entrance fee the cost was about the same if we found our way up to the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-334987.html Finally we're making a blog entry of some significance......We started on the tour going from Beijing to Kathmandu anyway..........there are 9 of us in the group including the leader Zshoka who is Hungarian. There are 2 English guys a Canadian guy a Scottish guy Joe a Danish girl aFrench girl an Australian girl and an Irish girl me. There is one other couple apart from ourselves and http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-333192.html Day 36 Monday 6th October Had to get up early as our tour guide was coming to meet us at 9am. Got clean clothes to wear for the first time in 2 weeks. Hmm underwear it's been a while Our guide English name 'Wendy' met us and it was about an hour and a half drive to the part of the wall we were going to visit. Along the way we got to experience more crazy Chinese driving as well as pe http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-331530.html The Great Wall needs no introduction. It was built rebuilt since the 5th century BC till Ming Dynasty. The one found in Bataling outskirt of Beijing was bult during Ming Dynasty. It stretches over approximately 4160 miles 6700km.For more info go to httpen.wikipedia.orgwikiGreatWallofChina http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-331128.html The last two days here in China has been very exciting with one day venturing out to the Summer Palace and yesturday was our Great Wall day trip. To get to the Summer Palace we decided to take the city bus. Which the girls working at the hostel said it was easy. Ya it's easy when you can read which stop you are suppose to get off. Getting there was slightly confusing but being only lost once in B http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-330634.html After just under a month of teaching I found myself on a week of holiday time. A small group of us ventured by plane first to Beijing for 3 days and then on to X'ian for another 3. Visiting Beijing on my own terms was much nicer than the whirlwind tour I took 4.5 years ago. I actually got a sense of the city. On the first day we went to the Forbidden City and T'ianamen Square again but while ev http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-330607.html Arrived at the new hostel which isn't great but has a western loo so I'm still mamaging to avoid drop toilets Thought I would venture to Tianamen Sq and the Forbidden city. Arrived to see the whole population trying to get inside the Forbidden city so I decided to give it a miss. Instead i did a few of the parks in the surrounding area Beihai park with the white pagoda and trip on the water http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-330290.html In true flash packer style we decided to book ourselves a taxi to the great wall we got the name of a guy from Heinerthe German guy whilst drunk with a guy called Joe. We wanted to go to Simatai because itrsquos apparently the best part to go to hellipitrsquos the least restored and the least tourist apparently Up bright and early and Joe came to pick us up in a pretty nice car. He was http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-328899.html He who has not climed the Great Wall is not a true man Yeah..... We zijn er geweest En hoe Niet zomaar naar de eerste de beste plek dichtbij Beijing maar met de lokale bus 110 km verderop. In Jinshanling zijn we gestart en 4 uren over de muur gelopen naar Simatai. Dit gedeelte van de muur is een stuk minder touristisch en veel mooier dan de stukken dichtbij Beijing. Hier zie je gerestaureerde http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-328892.html The Great Wall February 2008 We decided not to go to the most touristy section of the Great Wall and opted for the less wellknown area called Mutianyu. To get there we had to first take the subway to get to a relocated and horribly placed bus station and figure out where the heck our bus was. We rode to the outskirts of Beijing for over an hour on the bus then had to cross a massive inter http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-328410.html Monday November 12 2007 China Diaries 3 Great Wall and beyondHello The last place I left off is when it was Sunday morning the day of the competition and the ever so awesome breakfast they serve at the hotel. Much has happened since then.......... Sunday afternoon the American and Chinese drifters competed with a mediocre crowd. The funniest part about the day was the organizers threw us on http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-320805.html There was supposed to be a part 2 and part 3 to my Trans Siberian trip but although everone appears to be online in Asia it is apparently not the case in China and it has been difficult to find internet cafes where this site actually works so this is written from Beijing not the great wallFirstly my one and only photo on this blog so far. Me and the sumo wrestling champion of the world. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-318897.html This was definitely the high point of my trip to China. I along with 14 other people took a tour bus arranged by one of our bosses. We went to the touristy part but that was ok at least we got there. When we got there we walked up to what looks like a little street lined with vendors it was funny people were grabbing us trying to sell us stuff. There are two ways to get up to the wall from the p http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-315153.html Wednesday 30 July at ShijiazhuangGot the hotel IT team to sort out the Ethernet connection so I have internet Lots of emails today. The programme for 35 August has changed radically from the printed one we will be doing less tourism and will be in Beijing for only 2 nights instead of three. Another economy measure no doubt.In the evening there was a tremendous rainstorm which rather chang http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-314014.html I had been obsessively listening to the Walking on the Chinese Wall by Philip Bailey for about a month before I left for China classic 80s song. Probably my main motivation for this trip was to finally see the Great Wall one of my favourite things about travelling is to actually see those iconic buildings or natural sights that I have only seen in photos before. The Pyramids the Taj Mahal th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-313436.html This city is at its peak. Olympics fever is raging creating a cleaner tidier and stricter city. Everywhere you turn there are these ldquoOne World One Dreamrdquo signs with the little Olympic monsters running around. Even on the street signs you were reminded of the cities importance in the international arena with the words ldquoBeijing 2008rdquo added onto the top. I couldrsq http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-309273.html