Wednesday, October 15, 2008

"He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man"

So the stay in Beijing is almost over. Tomorrow the train are leaving for Shanghai but after almost a week in Beijing we have seen most of the things that are worth seeing. We have seen the Forbidden city, the Great wall, the Lama temple, the Temple of heaven, the Olympic stadiums and much more.

Today we went to the Great Wall of China we went to the secret wall, that's what the hostel called it. It is a part of the wall that's not rebuilt  where no tourist are going. We where 20 people from our hostel that went there, it took 2.5 hours with mini buss so it was a long car ride there an back but it was so worth it. We were the only one's on the wall so you could get pictures with no one on them which is impossible on the rebuilt walls. We passed a couple of them on the way out at they were packed with people. So we walked of the wall for almost 3 hours before we went down and got lunch in a locale village. After we had walked for 1.5 hours and where at the highest point we found a guy sitting there selling souvenirs so he has to walk up there everyday to just sit there and wait for the few people that comes there. So it was a great day the the quote in the headline comes from Mao Zedong and is something everybody should live after, don't you think?


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