Beijing - Great Wall, and much more

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A busy day: up early, off to the Great Wall, lunch at Jade Center, home for some secret shopping, meet a colleague for dinner, then get fitted for a suit, then up to the top of the hotel to get some views of night-time Beijing.

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Photos

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Badaboom, badabing, we're on the road to Badaling

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On the bus to the actual entry point. Ellen is listening intently to the barrage of Mandarin instructions...

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Our tour guide, Texan. I called him Wah Ka Mo Le. That's because Ellen said he would pop up when we needed him and vanish instantaneously ...

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Amazing, eh?

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Celebrity big-nose, Ellen, getting in yet another Pa Pa Ra Zhi shot (paparazzi)