Signs at the start of the trail.

On the Road To Simatai

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July 5th 2008
This morning Jane, Rhonda, Rochelle and I rented a car and a driver for the day to go to a section of the Great Wall at Simatai. This is a location about 110 km northeast of Beijing in Miyun County. It's about a 2 - 2.5 hour ride to get there with traffic. We met our driver at the hotel just after 8:00 am. He was a very nice man with a relatively new Buick van. After some introductions we were on ... read more

Asia » China » The Great Wall

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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