The Great Wall has been the best thing by far I have gone to see this entire trip. Maybe it was because it was practically like hiking (which I've gotten really into hear, since running in Hong Kong's humidity feels like running with a wet coat on). But the magnamity, history, and endless winding of the Great Wall makes it worth the sweat and time it takes to get there.
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We went to a section of the wall named Mutianyu, where the wall dates from 1368 and there are less tourists to deal with because it is further from Beijing than other sections of the wall. Guard towers dot the wall, which were creepy for me, because they only reinforced the fact that the wall was used as a defense mechanism and I tried not to imagine how creepy it would be to be assaulted by Mongols creepy out of the mountains and assailing your wall... weird.
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We went to a section of the wall named Mutianyu, where the wall dates from 1368 and there are less tourists to deal with because it is further from Beijing than other sections of the wall. Guard towers dot the wall, which were creepy for me, because they only reinforced the fact that the wall was used as a defense mechanism and I tried not to imagine how creepy it would be to be assaulted by Mongols creepy out of the mountains and assailing your wall... weird.We wanted to tobagen down but it was closed due to rain (lame, it barely sprinkled) so we took a cable car down which was even better.
Awesome What an educational adventure.
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