Jinshanling Great Wall

June 27th 2023
The part I was most looking forward to was our planned hike on the Great Wall that we booked through a local tour operator. I think before Covid, actual camping ON the wall was allowed, but this one only offered to camp next to it - still pretty cool. L set it up. We left our main baggage at the hotel and were picked up right on time at 10am. It would just be us - not a group tour. Yay! And they h ... read more

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19th July 2023

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Jinshanling Great Wall
Fabulous pic of one of my favourite parts of the Great Wall. Did Jinshanling one Christmas Day with Denise and our then teenage children. We were the only ones there so they had to open the gates to let us on. Even facetimed Denise's family having Christmas lunch in Oz from there which used to be impossible to get a phone connection at that time of year. Hope you can check out some more Great Wall in other Provinces of China as long it is indeed!!!

21st July 2023

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Alexis M Spencer

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That sounds really awesome and memorable to have a chat with family from there. It was hard to take a bad picture here and the weather was perfect (though on the hot side). Truly, an amazing experience and I would definitely go back to visit other sections.

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