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INDIVIDUAL VOYAGE THROUGH CHINA DURING 7 WEEKS PEKING XIAN CHENGDU CHONGQING YANGTZE RIVER MOUNTS HUANGSHAN HANGZHOU SUZHOU SHANGHAI PEKING
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
The Great Wall
The last days are coming. It’s time to visit “Wan Li Chang Chen” which we know as “The Great Wall”. Great indeed since it’s 10.000 li (5000 km) long. A bus takes us to Badaling, 70 km northwest of Peking, crossing a campaign cultivated with vegetables, cereals, rice…no industries. Excitation begins when at the horizon appears something like a stone lace between the mounts Badaling.
Here we are, walking along that famous construction I have seen so many times on pictures and TV having no idea I’ll be there some day! It’s a lovely sunny day to admire the work which started at the second century BC when reigned Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi whose army we visited in Xian. Impressing is the surrounding seeing the wall stretching like a dragon among the mountains which extend far away; some peaks reach 1000 m. Proud we are leaving the symbol of Zhongguo (China) what means “The Center of the World”, the last but one trophy of our adventure.
Picnic on The Wall
The last days are coming. It’s time to visit “Wan Li Chang Chen” which we know as “The Great Wall”. Great indeed since it’s 10.000 li (5000 km) long. A bus takes us to Badaling, 70 km northwest of Peking, crossing a campaign cultivated with vegetables, cereals, rice…no industries. Excitation begins when at the horizon appears something like a stone lace between the mounts Badaling.
Here we are, walking along that famous construction I have seen so many times on pictures and TV having no idea I’ll be there some day! It’s a lovely sunny day to admire the work which started at the second century BC when reigned Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi whose army we visited in Xian. Impressing is the surrounding seeing the wall stretching like a dragon among the mountains which extend far away; some peaks reach 1000 m. Proud we are leaving the symbol of Zhongguo (China) what means “The Center of the World”, the last but one trophy of our adventure.
Picnic on The Wall
Posted by: jeanette / 1:44 AM 
