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Other sections of the Greatwall

The Hushan Great Wall The Hushan Great Wall is located on the bank of Yalu River, east of Dandong in Liaoning Province, with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the opposite side of the river. The Hushan Great Wall was first built in 1469, with a total length of about...

The Silk Road

The Silk road was a land access which opened up by Zhang Qian in his mission to the Western Regions.It started from Chang’an(now Xi’an),running all the way through Gansu,Xinjiang,Central Asia ,West Asia and linking the Mediterranean countries with the Western Han Dynasty.It was...

The Grey-brick Wall

The construction method of the grey-brick walls was roughly the same as the adobe walls,which was to have the readymade grey-bricks laid up piece by piece,reinforcing the wall by pointing in between the two bricks with glutinous rice or yellow mud or lime in thick liquid...

Stories of The Greatwall

Lime of Ten-Thousand Yearsand the Town of Yanjing There was no time when thestate of Yan started to build the Great wall,so the stones and bricks of thewall were laid and plastered with clay.According to legend,the king of thestate of Yan ordered not to stop the construction even...

72-hour Visa-free Transit Policy in Beijing and Shanghai

Visitors from 45 countries can now benefit from the 72-hour visa-free stay policy in Beijing and Shanghai. Visitors holding third country visas and plane tickets can now apply for a transit without visa at Beijing and Shanghai airports. Foreign visitors are not permitted to leave...

China′s Forbidden City to control visitor numbers

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) — The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, on Wednesday unveiled plans to control the number of visitors for protection purposes. The plans, including not allowing annual ticket holders to visit during peak seasons, a seven-day...

Do you believe it?

I received an email to be asked which section of the Great Wall is the best time for them to visit with fewer tourists, for they wanted to celebrate their daughter’s birthday on the Great Wall on Sep 20th. I recommended them to go the Jinshanling Great Wall, which is more...

6 Days Great wall Hike

It is the golden season to visit the great wall in Oct because of the comfortable temperature ,blue sky and colorful changed on the mountain. We did a 6-day Great wall Hike from Laolongtou to Mutianyu on the wall in China. We drove 4 hours from northeast of Beijing to...

greatwall tour

In winter,When you come to China ,what will you do?stay in the hotel,shopping,skating,skiing or hiking? Of course, the best choice is outdoor of hiking.Where we can hike?It is greatwall tour Walk on the great wall,enjoy the winter sunshine ,have a breath of fresh air outside,away...

Skating at Yellow River and Greatwall Hiking

In January 2014, I finished a project of more than 2 years to finish the 200km speed skating event “Alternative Speed Skating Challenge” in the White Lake (German: Weissensee) in Austria. After skating the 200km in eleven and a half hour, I decided that I wanted to do something...