The 12-day Walkabout to Devel Deep into the History

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Welcome to you at the airport. A transfer is included from the airport to the Holiday Inn Express in the heart of Beijing. 

 Kick-off your journey with a 4-hour drive to Shanhaiguan, south of the Bohai Sea. Here is where the Wall goes into the ocean, called "Old Dragon Head." The Great Wall here looks like a dragon's head poking into the sea and dancing in the waves. Stay at a beautiful courtyard hotel in the ancient downtown of Shanhaiguan Pass. Local lunch and dinner.

Walk 4 hours at Jiaoshan (Horn Mountain), the first actual mountain the Great Wall passes west. Its peak is a flat item, can sit hundreds of people, there are huge boulders sagging, as if a dragon head wears horns and so the name. Stay in the same ancient town hotel at Shanhaiguan.

Discover Dongjiakou. The Great Wall here has a well-preserved enemy platform with a daughter-in-law building. It has old smoke towers, small smoke towers, and a rigid structure. It is a specimen of this section of the Great Wall. Overnight at Huangyaguan hotel at the foot of the Great Wall.

We add a 3-hour tour to the East Qing Tombs, a World Heritage site. It is the best-preserved and largest of the extant royal tombs complexes in China. These royal dignitaries who once dominated the country's destiny and played significant roles in the Qing dynasty's political scene are now sleeping here. Head up to an overlook for Huangyuan Great Wall (Yellow Cliff Pass) for 1 hour. Lodge at Huangyaguan hotel.

 Trek four hours from the Peace Fort to Huangyaguan Pass and the Sky Ladder, famous for its steepness and splendor. The east and west sides of the Pass are like cliffs, with steep and majestic hills, renowned for their "one man's barrier, ten thousand men's barrier." As the peaks reflect a thousand golden lights when the sun shines in the west at sunset, it is named Yellow Cliff Pass. Drive to Jinshanling Great Wall. Overnight in a courtyard hotel by the Wall.

 Hike 3 hours from Jinshanling to West Simatai. Jinshanling has five passes, 67 enemy buildings, and three beacons. The Great Wall is a majestic and winding road, and the view from the top is spectacular. It rises and falls between mountains and rivers, and the situation is incredibly magnificent. Especially here, the enemy buildings are densely packed, exquisitely constructed, and in various forms. Relying on the mountains to set up the danger, the Wall undulates steel walls and iron walls with the water to set up a blockade. Drive to Gubeikou to camp in the General's towers, the headquarters in every battle.

Hike 4.5 hours toward Jinshanling from where you camp last night at Gubeikou, the battlefield where the Chinese army fought against the Japanese invasion in the 1930's. The entire Gubeikou Great Wall remains original, very much like a sense of vicissitudes, and the broken walls and bullet holes make you feel as if you were there. A time of war. Seeing the Wall like this, in the light of the setting sun, is tear-jerking. Move to Jiankou Section and stay in Miss-U-Much hostel.

 Gaze up at the peak of Jiankou,whose shape of the mountain looks like an arrow, with the collapsed ridge opening as its arrow nock. The Great Wall here is one of the most precipitous and majestic sections of the Great Wall, heavily weathered and untouched by any artificial embellishment. Fully demonstrated the Great Wall's astonishing, dangerous, strange, unique, can appreciate the ancient Great Wall landscape's original taste. Stay at the same hostel as last night.

 Walk across over onto Mutianyu, a section of the Wall that has been largely restored. The Wall here is famous for visiting foreign leaders and celebrities. Among the Great Wall sections in Beijing, Mutianyu is known as "the most beautiful and beautiful of all." Try the toboggan slide at the end. Camp on the Great Wall again at the lakeside Huanghuacheng.

 Set off on a hike across Huanghuacheng. The Huanghua Great Wall is majestic and precipitous, magnificent, hovering above the mountain ridges, surrounded by the Hao Ming Lake, the scenery is spectacular. The Great Wall is to guard the northern gate of the capital, and become the guardian of the Ming Tombs "thirteen mausoleums" important portal, which is the essence of the Great Wall of Ming Location. Today is the last day of our Great Wall hike. Return to Holiday Inn Express in Beijing tonight.

New from Summer 2022 - Kayaking at the Great Wall *Get the experience of 1-hour kayaking at the foot of the Great Wall for $69. 

 A relaxed Beijing city tour to mark the end of the Great Wall's 12-day experience and the historic Beijing. Naturally, no one wants to miss the Forbidden City. You can also choose to feel the tricycles in the old town or choose to relax in the Summer Palace.