Great Wall of China (长城)

There was a saying that goes :"If you never been to the great wall, then you are no hero"(不到长城非好汉), quote the former president of China Mr. Mao-Ze-Dong(毛泽东). The great wall was built long time ago by the ruler of different countries during the Zhou's Dynasty to resist foreign invasion. At the end of Zhou's Dynasty, there were 7 strongest countries that manage to survive the civil war. In the end, Qin manage to wipe out all 6 other countries and the first emperor of China Shih-Huang-Ti united China for the first time under one central ruler. Aware of the North barbarian's invasion, he decided to complete the great wall by attaching the gap between the former walls built by different rulers of different countries.

We took the MRT to Ji-Shui-Tan(积水潭) station and took a 15 minutes walk to reach this old city gate (De-Sheng-Men 德胜门)built by the emperor of Qing's Dynasty. There will be an express bus directly reaching Ba-Da-Ling Great Wall (八达岭长城) - the most well preserved part of the wall~ Remember never accept any "help" from drivers that offer to drive you there. They are all fraud.

Built almost 200 years ago~

You can choose to either climb it all the way from first watch tower  up till the exit, or you can take this pulley car reaching the 4th tower. Guess thats why they called it the bear park(狗熊) - which means chicken in metaphorical sense~

Quite alot of people queuing up for the pulley car~

4 against 1~ so decided to take pulley car to 4th tower~

Next time I would try walking all the way up~ =P

Look at how magnificent it is!

Downside of it? Too many people~

Great engineering..... wonder we would ever make this even with modern technologies

Sigh...can't even move your butt in such narrow and crowded space~

 

You could even take the cable car to reach the top most tower~~~ We climbed to the top of course~ha!

After the top most station(8th tower), it started to get steeper and much more difficult to walk~

Look at the slope~ Most of the time you have to stoop low in order to maintain your centre of gravity

Good thing about it, people seldom walk down these slopes~ ha! Most just turn back after they reached the top most tower~

Another tips, if you wish to finish the whole journey, it might take few hours. So, prepare your lunch beforehand~ We bought some pancakes~

Really love to act aint him?~

So in the end, we turn one circle to the exit~