For our Great Wall excursion, we chose the Mutianyu section. Its about 60 to 70 km outside of Beijing, so it involved a long bus ride. But it was worth it! According to Mutianyu's website: "Family friendly Mutianyu offers a relaxing escape from the hustle-bustle of tourism, and the pollution of the city."
I don't know about relaxing... there were a lot of stairs involved! But it was an awesome and much-needed escape from Beijing.
The view on the way up to the wall. We chose to walk up instead of taking the cable car. It was a deathly walk of over 400 meters of stairs.
My first view of the Great Wall!
Yes, I wore pants to the Great Wall. Bad decision. But I did bring my trusty umbrella. Good decision.
Pretty mountains.
whew! taking a break in one of the watch towers - where it was considerably cooler.
Feel the burn!
This shot is for Jeffrey! I tried to be artsy... :)
Mutianyu is a very beautiful section of the Wall. We also had a really beautiful day as well! And there were hardly any tourists out which is why I have so many pictures with no one them! Not that I minded, of course.
Blogger doesn't do my picture justice! But this was a really pretty view of the Wall in the distance.
So we came upon this massive set of stairs, and we had the time... so why not go on up!?
Oh yeah! I just climbed all that!
The view from the top! You will notice that you can't actually see the stairs at the top... thats because it was basically a vertical climb at that point which took both feet and hands.
But unfortunately, at the top was the end of the road at Mutianyu. You can see how badly the wall here has fallen into disrepair.
Victory!
The China Care kids and the interns who taught classes! :) This is the best picture ever.
Pretty mountains.
whew! taking a break in one of the watch towers - where it was considerably cooler.
Feel the burn!
This shot is for Jeffrey! I tried to be artsy... :)
Mutianyu is a very beautiful section of the Wall. We also had a really beautiful day as well! And there were hardly any tourists out which is why I have so many pictures with no one them! Not that I minded, of course.
Blogger doesn't do my picture justice! But this was a really pretty view of the Wall in the distance.
So we came upon this massive set of stairs, and we had the time... so why not go on up!?
Oh yeah! I just climbed all that!
The view from the top! You will notice that you can't actually see the stairs at the top... thats because it was basically a vertical climb at that point which took both feet and hands.
But unfortunately, at the top was the end of the road at Mutianyu. You can see how badly the wall here has fallen into disrepair.
Victory!
The China Care kids and the interns who taught classes! :) This is the best picture ever. I know the picture on Blogger isn't very big but I'll do (English) names anyways.
First row from the left: Aaron, Max, Jack, Eric, Billy, Helen, Tom, Tim, Ysabelle
Second row from the left: John Speed, Peter, Tim, David, Callie, Theresa, Kayla, Lauren, Jacob, Mary
So something called the Olympics is coming to town? Beijing doesn't seem excited about it at all.
Special effects for the Olympics.
A view of our street. Its not the greatest but you can see all the red lanterns that now deck the halls for the Olympics ;)
And of course, a post would not be complete without pictures of little Duoduo :D
So something called the Olympics is coming to town? Beijing doesn't seem excited about it at all.
Special effects for the Olympics.
A view of our street. Its not the greatest but you can see all the red lanterns that now deck the halls for the Olympics ;)
And of course, a post would not be complete without pictures of little Duoduo :D
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the pictures are pretty :)
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