Great scenery, impressive. Please skip the coffee corner at the top and buy your coffee in the valley. The coffee there is around €6 and they wanted to let us pay €89 for 2 medals. A rip-off. After walking away they charged only CNY 100. Which is around €13. Still way too…
We had Leo as the tour guide. He made the trip enjoyable and was really coherent with his explanations
We took a Viatour day tour beginning early in the morning. Tour guide walked us through Forbidden city before heading north to the wall. There wasn’t really a choice but to take the ski lift up in order to spend the two hours allotted on the wall. We rode down in Bill…
Love visiting the Great Wall at Mutianyu! Visiting during the winter was freezing, literally, but still enjoyed going. It’s about a 2 hour drive from Beijing city center but worth the trip.
Way up, you can take the cable car or climb by foot. Way down, you have another option to take the slider. Speed is much limited and limit is enforced (many controllers on the way down- 1.5 Kms). The wall- very impressive. Hard to believe how much effort was put to build that.…