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HIKING THE GREAT WALL FROM JINSHANLING TO SIMATAI

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July 2nd 2007
Cloudy and misty when we arrived at Jinshanling to do a 10 km trek of the Great Wall, just as we started walking rain started pouring steadily but we went on. Hot and muggy but at least the rain finally stopped. This part of the wall is not as touristy as others but is very tricky, you have to scale up and down hills and in some parts the wall is crumbling so you really have to take it easy, it d ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more