Day 5
The GREAT Wall of China! And the Ming Tombs
So one of my life goals is to stand on the Great Wall of China, I did it! I completed it on December 10, 2010. It was freezing and very windy and to my amazement it wasn’t as tall or huge as I had thought it would be. However, in Chinese it is actually called the Long wall of china. It took as a few tries to find a bus that would not lie to us and give a reasonable price. They were telling us that it if we wanted to get there in an hour it would cost us 120 RMB a person, but if we wanted to take the slow one it would take 3 hours and be 12 RMB. It was very frustrating at how much they were trying to rip us off, but we finally hoped on a bus that cost us 12 RMB for each of us and only took us an hour to get there.
Along the way…
My first few glances of the wall
So we were getting closer to the wall and there was a stop that Landon thought we wanted to get off of. Turns out it was a stop too early that had a very pricey animal park and a rundown, not-open museum and another mile and a half walk till we got to the Great Wall.
Picture of the animal park…
We made it!!
Look how steep it is… and yes the Chinese always wear heels for hikes!! I will never understand.
The 13 Ming Tombs
After my excursion to the Great Wall we planned on going to the Ming Tombs, but would have to get off at a stop and find another bus at a different stop to take us. I was freezing and was not in the best of moods and starving; we had to walk a little ways and stopped at the first restaurant. At the restaurant we just happened to see the bus that we wanted to catch. We hoped on and to the Ming Tombs we went.
The sketch map of the 13 tombs.
We decided to go to the Dingling Tomb.
Our hike to the underground Palace
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| I'm guessing that the sign didn't work |
Underground
We tried to do some jumping pictures… and about the 10th try for me to take the picture I got one!
Lastly a really cool tree that Landon had to take a picture of
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