Jinshanling
The great wall is a series of fortifications in China. They were built across the historical northern borders of ancient chinese state and Imperial China as protection. The first walls date to the 7th century BC, these were joined together in the Qin dynasty. Successive dynasties expanded the wall, the best-known sections were built by the Ming dinasty (1368–1644). We did som googeling and dicided we wished to visit the part of the wall you can acsess from Jinshanling. Its a part of the wall that haven’t been restored, but still safe to walk. It was challenging in parts, but so worth it. You could feel history under your feet and the wiew was breathtaking. Its also very few tourists here. So you could enjoy the great walls magic undisturbed. And the great wall of China definietly has a magic thats hard to convey into words. One simply has to exeperience it.
We booked an unguided tour that picked us up at our hotel. They had bookes tickets for us and explained where to go. The bus drove us to the main office at Jinshanling.
From the office there were small busses drove us to the startingpoint. The tourbus would pick us up at the East gate after 4 hours. There were a few exit trails along they way if you could make the end in time.
We took cabelcars up to the unrestored part of the wall.
Trond was super brave and was promised this was the last cabel car ride he would ever have to take.
After a short trail from the cabel car to the wall we could finally enjoy the wiew.
We got an easy to follow map from the guidecompany, Bejing downtown travel service. Higly reccomend them, they were great.