Great Wall Stories


Great Wall – Mutianyu

We head out of town in the northeast direction. After about one hour drive (60km), through some elevated city highways and ring roads, Jingcheng Express way, and local access roads towards Huairou city, we follow the sign for Mutianyu through a winding mountain road. There are several villages with narrow and uneven gravel roads to pass. The longer whee...


Hadrian's Wall

We arrived after a long flight at 1:30 am. By 10am we were on the Great Wall, which is a really big wall in China. A kid I once taught answered this question: What is the name of the wall that separates England and Scotland that the Romans built? with the answer: The Great Wall of China? Hence the title. It was really quite surreal to be there after ...


Great Wall

Yeah!!! i made it to the Great Wall for the 2nd time lol. Awh you just never get sick of it, it is so amazing. We walked from a section called JinShanLing to SiMaTai the first day. Think it was about 13km took us about 4hours to walk it. Parts of it were flat but some part were so steep that you had to crawl up and down them. It was brilliant. ...


Running up the entire great wall!?!?!?

Waking up early for the wall, I had to do a bunch of tasks to prepare for the wall like getting money and preparing the flag and getting all my running stuff ready. I was in a bit of a rush today and only had like 5 minutes to eat breakfast but I made it. After about 30 minutes drive we arrived at the Cloisonné factory where we were shown around the f...