Saturday - complete arriving in Beijing and camping on the Great Wall.
September 5th 2014 We arrived at Beijing train station around 8am and after following the crowds and the instructions from Sacha we were met by our new guide, a young girl who looked about 12 lol. Petite with long hair and glasses. Her name us Lunar and us an intern from Shanghai. We loaded our stuff into the waiting minibus and headed to the hostel. On the way Lunar explained the itinerary for our few days here.
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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 
