What can you say! The wall....... its amazing.
We shared a minibus to Jinshalin with Patrick and Julia Walls and their 3 delightful children, Connell, Kierin and Lachlan, 6,4 and 11 months...they had been travelling for 3 months around India, Nepal and China!! You can walk the wall from Jinshalin to Simatai which takes about 4 hours and is reasonably difficult... we chose not to, but all the Walls did....well done guys!!!!
I reckon the Chinese would think it very auspicious that we walked the Wall with the Walls!
We shared a minibus to Jinshalin with Patrick and Julia Walls and their 3 delightful children, Connell, Kierin and Lachlan, 6,4 and 11 months...they had been travelling for 3 months around India, Nepal and China!! You can walk the wall from Jinshalin to Simatai which takes about 4 hours and is reasonably difficult... we chose not to, but all the Walls did....well done guys!!!!
I reckon the Chinese would think it very auspicious that we walked the Wall with the Walls!
Jinshalin is peaceful and beautiful, Simatai is rugged,wild and dramatic and amazes one in its engineering feats. We caught a very long, very high and very tired looking cable car to the wall and I freaked...its not for the faint of heart......which may have been a little silly in retrospect... or a good test...I am still typing!!!!!
And of course the Forbidden City......its fascinating, and is a must as well, especially with the headphone tour. Sal C told us that she had Michael Caine on her headphones but we then found out it was now Roger Moore, so you can imagine our disappointment when the headphone rental ladies fell about laughing when we requested Roger Moore. They informed us that he had gone! We got a chinese ladies voice instead, which was quite effective and seductive when talking about the various sexual encounters that happened in the forbidden city...nothing explicit mind you.
We met some people who believe you need 3 full days there....we comfortably did it in 3 hours!!!!
We met some people who believe you need 3 full days there....we comfortably did it in 3 hours!!!!
The one thing in relation to sites such as these, they are chock-a-block full of Chinese tour groups...in fact everywhere in China is...its great that so many Chinese tour their own country, but they all do it in groups and they do not stray from the chosen routes...it is quite amusing to watch their antics as they get very excited about everything they see!!
Of course we had left our official sightseeing duties until the last two days of our stay so now it is off to Shanghai on the day train.
We hadn't done all we had planned to do in Beijing, so of course we will have to return!!
Of course we had left our official sightseeing duties until the last two days of our stay so now it is off to Shanghai on the day train.
We hadn't done all we had planned to do in Beijing, so of course we will have to return!!
No comments:
Post a Comment