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About 50 miles/80km northwest of Beijing is a major access point to the Great Wall in the town of Badaling.
The day we visited, the smog had lifted a bit. You can see the haze discoloration in the sky, but also if you look carefully at the center top, you can see that the wall continues on past the horizon.
Climbing this historic structure is awe inspiring - and great stair stepping exercise! This section was built in 1504-5 and restored in 1957.
My 2015 experience: the Chinese residents whom I encountered over a few trips, including the ones who were also tourists at Badaling & were from many diverse cultures and parts of China, are among the most respectful, generous and kind hosts whom I have encountered globally.
I’m also a comparatively tall white guy with a beard, so I am in a few family photos now ... a curiosity on a landmark. :-)
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Explore highest position: 138 on Thursday, February 19, 2009
Great Wall at Badaling, north of Beijing
A Grande Muralha, em Badaling, ao norte de Pequim
More info: / mais informação:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
Virtual tour: www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html
To browse through my Beijing photos using flickriver/ Para ver minhas fotos de Pequim com o flickriver
Or here to see photos with descriptions / ou aqui para ler as descrições das fotos
the most efficient trip to the most touristy great wall, with my technical support (his verison of Badaling www.flickr.com/photos/emura/4601220646/
We left at 2:30pm, 1 hour cab ride+1 hour cable car and photo shoot+1hour cab ride, got back at 6pm, if you have done the great wall trip you would know this's totally crazy, as most people spend the entire day there.
Le président Richard Nixon et sa femme, accompagnés du vice-Premier ministre Li Xiannian, ont visité Badaling le 24 février 1972 au cours de sa visite historique1. Il s'agit également de cette section de la muraille que Mao Zedong a gravi avec 370 autres dignitaires et célébrités internationaux.
On the 19th of March I had a little trip to the Great Wall of China, location: Badaling. Pretty easy to get there from Beijing city centre: subway to train station Beijing Bei (North). From there you take the turbo train to the Badaling station (fare 1st class: €5, no seriously). I think it was a 45 min ride. Entrance to the wall is 35 yuan (€4,50). You can take the ski lift to the 8th tower which is 100 yuan (€12,50 but you don't have to take the cable car).
Train is super modern and comfortable 2+2 layout. Exit the station and the walk to the ski lift station is 200m. No queue! Walk straight into the cabin. Great views from the cabin and the ride is a couple of minutes and you end up all the way in tower 8. I walked/ climbed to tower 12 and then went down via the bear park and souvenir shops.
Weather was fantastic! It was about 18 degrees Celcius but windy at some places. You have to be a bit fit because some locations are pretty steep. You need good sturdy and grippy shoes. Take enough food and water with you because you can't buy anything on the wall itself. Between tower 8 and tower 10 was a bit more crowded but after that very little crowds. When you get down there is even a KFC! Super experience, highly recommended.
Most of the sections of the Great Wall in Beijing are well-preserved and mainly the relics dating from the Ming Dynasty, the time for huge construction. For the Great Wall hiking, get ready for strong footwear.
Digitising negatives and prints, I came across these from my Second Visit to Ba Da Ling.
On this visit we went in the opposite direction to our First visit.
A very hot day, we took the gondola, thankfully.
If you visit here in 2018, then expect crowds of people, I visited last in 2017, could not move for people and queues. so disappointing.
On the 19th of March I had a little trip to the Great Wall of China, location: Badaling. Pretty easy to get there from Beijing city centre: subway to train station Beijing Bei (North). From there you take the turbo train to the Badaling station (fare 1st class: €5, no seriously). I think it was a 45 min ride. Entrance to the wall is 35 yuan (€4,50). You can take the ski lift to the 8th tower which is 100 yuan (€12,50 but you don't have to take the cable car).
Train is super modern and comfortable 2+2 layout. Exit the station and the walk to the ski lift station is 200m. No queue! Walk straight into the cabin. Great views from the cabin and the ride is a couple of minutes and you end up all the way in tower 8. I walked/ climbed to tower 12 and then went down via the bear park and souvenir shops.
Weather was fantastic! It was about 18 degrees Celcius but windy at some places. You have to be a bit fit because some locations are pretty steep. You need good sturdy and grippy shoes. Take enough food and water with you because you can't buy anything on the wall itself. Between tower 8 and tower 10 was a bit more crowded but after that very little crowds. When you get down there is even a KFC! Super experience, highly recommended.
The Great Wall of China in the Badaling Hills above the Guangou Gorge near Beijing, China.
When I first told my friends that I had visited the Great Wall of China many of them asked if I had walked its entire length. Clearly they had not appreciated that the most impressive architectural feats in history was found, by archaeological survey, to have a total length of 13,171 miles (including all of its branches).
The Great Wall of China is the common name given to a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe with an eye to expansion.
Several walls were built as early as the 7th century BC and were later joined together to made them bigger and stronger. The collection of these were referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built in 220–206 BC by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. The Great Wall has been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced over various dynasties; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).
Digitising negatives and prints, I came across these from my Second Visit to Ba Da Ling.
On this visit we went in the opposite direction to our First visit.
A very hot day, we took the gondola, thankfully.
If you visit here in 2018, then expect crowds of people, I visited last in 2017, could not move for people and queues. so disappointing.
Badaling, China
The Great Wall of China at Badaling is approximately 50 miles northwest of Beijing city within the Beijing municipality. It was built during the Ming Dynasty, along with a military outpost reflecting the location's strategic importance. This portion of the wall has undergone heavy restoration and was the first section to open to tourists in 1957.
On prête à la Grande Muraille la réputation d'être le plus grand cimetière du monde. Environ 10 millions d'ouvriers sont morts pendant les travaux Ils n'ont pas été enterrés dans la muraille elle-même mais dans ses environs immédiats.
Pendant la révolution culturelle, les rebelles et les gardes rouges s'en prenaient aux monuments et aux lieux de culte : plusieurs briques de la Grande Muraille de Chine furent enlevées pour construire des porcheries
Le 7 juillet 2007, la Muraille a été désignée comme l'une des Sept nouvelles merveilles du monde
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.