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Stuff Laowai Like 3 - Great Wall (Simatai)

Which one is Badaling and which is Simatai?*After a long hiatus, we're back on the laowai watching track, and what better to talk about than the Great Wall? The Great Wall is one of the wonders of the world, it is an absolutely amazing place to see that... ...full story at Modern Lei Feng

from Modern Lei Feng on Mon, Jan 12 2009

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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...
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...
31 May 07 visit Voters told to get behind Great Wall  »  Shanghai Daily THE Academy of the Great Wall of China has launched a last-minute campaign to encourage people to vote the wall as one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World" after it was revealed it had fallen out of the top seven just over a month before public voting...
09 Jul 07 visit The Great Wall among the New Seven Wonders  »  Shanghaiist It is now official: The Great Wall has been chosen as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World in an unprecedented global vote that drew nearly 100 million internet and telephone voters. In fact it received the most votes among the 21 finalist sites (not...
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,...
02 May 07 visit The Great Wall, not version 2.0  »  Tim Johnson I must confess that after nearly four years in China I’ve ushered many, many houseguests to the Great Wall. But I’ve always been to one of two places: Either Badaling, the most visited site near Beijing, where the wall is...

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