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Beijing - The Great Wall

We visit the Great Wall and experience a Chinese Monsoon

from YouTube on Tue, Sep 23 2008

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11 Nov 08 visit 《老外视线》 China's Great Wall at Simatai  »  YouTube videoIn this episode of LWSX, climb the Great Wall at Simatai with host, Steven Weathers, and his Beijing friends. You see why this section of the Great Wall is less traveled by tourists, more rugged, historically authentic, and overall an awesome spot to...
14 Jan 09 visit Walking the Simatai Great Wall in a raining day in Beijing  »  YouTube videoSimatai Great Wall, located 130 km away from Beijing, is one of the most beautiful sections of Great Wall in China. It takes 7 hours by car back and forth, but it's worthing doing this than other tourist sections in Beijing.
10 Aug 09 visit Camping on the Wall goes on despite outcry  »  People's Daily &$ &$Campers on the Great Wall. (Global Times Photo) &$&$ Camping overnight on the Great Wall does not harm preservation of the wall and is not illegal, according to a managing official of the Jinshanling Great Wall in Luanping county, Hebei Province,...
12 Aug 08 visit All aboard: Great Wall gets express rail service  »  Shanghai Daily BEIJING yesterday unveiled the "Great Wall Express," a sleek new train service that will whisk visitors to the foot of the World Heritage Site in Olympic record time. The Great Wall winds across more than 6,400...
19 Sep 07 visit Dartmouth Does the Great Wall: Simatai to Jinshanling  »  Shanghai Journal  Above:  Dartmouth Fall 2007 FSP in Beijing Students at Simatai Great Wall.  For more photos, see my Great Wall photo pageIf you want to do a day-hike on the Great Wall, the best place in my reckoning is Simatai to Jinshanling (or vice...

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