Great Wall - Badaling
This is Badaling, the part of China's Great Wall which is closest to Beijing. It's a shot from 2004 and I wondered how it'd turn out in Lightroom.
Arriving at Capital Airport when the temperature was -1C in March, I was surrounded by touts. Few tourists arrived that day and I scored several bargains, including a trip to the wall.
This was a place I always wanted to visit.
Badaling protected northern Beijing from invasion and there are records dating back to Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of Qin who unified China in 221BC, passing the area. This section, built in the early 1500's Ming Dynasty, was reconstructed and opened to tourists in 1957. Richard Nixon visited here on a state visit in 1972.
Although this was a reasonably clear day, Beijing's haze was phenomenal - but not as bad as on my visit to the Summer Palace, when it was difficult to see 100 metres in daylight!
Funny to see the sign in Chinglish 'to protect cultural relic no carving; in order to keep fit no spitting' in another photo from the time.
Great Wall - Badaling
This is Badaling, the part of China's Great Wall which is closest to Beijing. It's a shot from 2004 and I wondered how it'd turn out in Lightroom.
Arriving at Capital Airport when the temperature was -1C in March, I was surrounded by touts. Few tourists arrived that day and I scored several bargains, including a trip to the wall.
This was a place I always wanted to visit.
Badaling protected northern Beijing from invasion and there are records dating back to Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of Qin who unified China in 221BC, passing the area. This section, built in the early 1500's Ming Dynasty, was reconstructed and opened to tourists in 1957. Richard Nixon visited here on a state visit in 1972.
Although this was a reasonably clear day, Beijing's haze was phenomenal - but not as bad as on my visit to the Summer Palace, when it was difficult to see 100 metres in daylight!
Funny to see the sign in Chinglish 'to protect cultural relic no carving; in order to keep fit no spitting' in another photo from the time.