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Traveler Rating
188 reviews 7 travel blogs 8 photos Attraction Type:
Historic site, Landmark/point of interest
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Great Wall at Simatai Beijing
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Beijing Measures Up
Well, well... thank you for your interest in our food blog. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we liked putting it together. Your comments were fun and interesting, as usual!
We just returned from a much-needed trip to Beijing with good friends. We had 8 days off from teaching for the May 1 Chinese holiday (Labour Day) so we took the … -
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Beijing
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אחרי טיסות מתישו 14; דרך מוסקב 92; אנחנו נוחתי 01; לפנות בוקר בב … -
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Great Wall Trek - What was advertised
Sat Sep 17: Drive to Gubeikou, commence trek
This morning we depart Beijing and travel by bus for around three hours to the Great Wall at Gubeikou.The Great Wall is one of mankind’s most extensive structures stretching over 6000km from the eastern coast of China all the way to the mountain ridges north of Beijing. Dating back 2000 … -
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A Wander on a Wonder
We won't bore you with a day by day account of our time on the Great Wall but will try and give an overall impression of our experience.
Firstly, the wall itself. The scale is amazing – you can see it from horizon to horizon. Also it is not just one wall – there are branches and also walls made at different times in history. …
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Related BlogsGreat Wall at Simatai Beijing
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The Wild West
... totally insane. What with the traffic and smog, Beijing seems intent on killing a great many of its inhabitants. Sunday was Great Wall at Simatai, about 4 hours out of the city and thus less crowded than the closer Badaling section. VERY cool, except the ...
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Great Wall at SiMaTai
... ; If you have a sturdy pair of hiking boots, and don't mind sweating a little bit, I highly recommend a hike on the Wall at SiMaTai. On a final note, if you ever have the chance, I highly recommend visiting the Great Wall with a group of Germans ...
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Beijing Baby!!!!!!
... - Recovering Ros' money belt and money will be transferred in to Ros' bank account - Seeing an acrobatics show - Seeing Great Wall at Simatai - Forbidden City - Clubbing for Jo's Birthday - Buying Ros a made to measure Chinese silk dress - Going on ...
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The Great Wall at Simatai
I thought that I had put in an entry already about the great wall but I mustn't have. Here goes.... The Great Wall. Something I've always wanted to see. We set out from the hostel at about 7am, on a bus with some lunatic driver who seemed intent on ...
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Beijing
... at your service." I wanted to cry. The next day, when Sara got better, we all went to the Great Wall at Simatai - on the border of Beijing Shi and Hebei province (old Mongolia). There were big mountains everywhere and the wall itself was massive. I ...
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The Palace, Zoo and public loos
... plan for today was to visit the Summer Palace for a couple of hours in the morning, and then head to the Great Wall at Simatai in the afternoon. I know the wall is "officially" closed here, but we were planning to stay overnight and sneak on ...
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Operation Beijing!
... own terms, as equals. So I said “Let's see what you got” And she laid out her book certifying I climbed the great wall at Simatai, but I needed no proof, and T-shirts and fans and post-cards, and one book-mark set, which looked nice enough. ...
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