Of course one of the must do's in China is to visit and climb the Great Wall of China. We did this last weekend in a four day trip to Beijing. The day we went to the Wall was met with fantastic weather around 80 degrees and hardly a cloud in the sky. The section of the wall we went to was called Mutianyu and was about 1 1/2 hours north of downtown Beijing. After taking a gondola up to the middle of the wall, we spent several hours on the wall, with the boys ascending to the highest point visitors are allowed to go. The wall is very steep at some points and created an adventure that was the high point of our trip to Beijing. We also served as an attraction on the wall, on several occasions we were stopped so folks could take pictures with the kids.
We saw these girls arguing on who was going to ask us for a picture...finally one came and popped the question!
One of the midly steep sections.
Look who was finally caught on film!!!
Uncharacteristically clear and blue skies!!
A cool thing about this section of the wall was the fact that you can choose to take the alpine slide to get back down. Fun and much easier!!
