Beijing - The Great Wall

Mutianyu 慕田峪 is a section of the Great Wall in China located in Huairou County 70km northeast of Beijing, about 1.5 hour driving distance from Beijing.


The Mutianyu Great Wall has the largest construction scale and best quality among all sections of Great Wall.

We hired a taxi there and took cable car to get straight to the great wall.

we walk to the left for few KM and turns into a very steep climb to its highest point.

The views from this section were really amazing!

Built mainly with granite, the wall is 7-8 meters high and the top is 4-5 meters wide.


Compared with other sections of Great Wall, Mutianyu Great Wall possesses unique characteristics in its construction

There are total 22 watchtowers on this 2,250-meter-long great wall section.




We put our ear to the wall, listened to the shouting of million of workers who had dead while building this wall.. :p
KC did it the funny way hahaha...




The steepest part of the great wall.



It was quite scary to look back while walking up the steep staircase..



The view is amazing when you get up there.. There are villages at the inward of great wall.


Another side of great wall is the mountains


2 Videos we captured:

We climbed up to 1 of the tower. It is quite hard to find the entrance.. :) The broken staircase is quite steep as well.

Both the outer and inner parapets are crenelated with merlons, so that shots could be fired at the enemy on both sides - a feature very rare on other parts of the Great Wall.

Some parapets are saw- tooth shaped instead of the regular rectangular form.



Below the parapets, there are square embrasures the top of which are designed in an arc structure, different from the traditional round embrasures.


It is used by soldiers to shot at the besiegers.


We brought some cookies, biscuits and fruits we bought a day b4 at Beijing local supermarket for lunch there. :)

We found a section with best great wall view, sit down and had our lunch while enjoying the beautiful scenery.






Another part of the great wall, leaves are red or yellow, touching the mountain tops with gold.


This gave us a totally different feeling of the great wall compare to the previous view.

Mutianyu is less crowded, so we managed to enjoy the scenery and capture a lot of nice photos.




Treking along the great wall towards the toboggan area, trees dress the hillside green at this part of great wall.

This section of great wall were built mainly with granite, the wall is 7-8 meters high



We took wheeled toboggan ride down from the wall on a winding metal track to the foot of the wall. It was exciting!!



We really enjoyed the descent by toboggan which rounded off an amazing and memorable experience.








We bought some dried fruit from the market at the foot of the wall before going back to hotel.

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