Great Wall adventure
Early in the morning, alarm rings and everyone falls to sleep. Except Janie. So I’m down here uploading photos, anyway… Jen and Em have joined me now. The only bad thing about sharing a room for four is there is only ONE bathroom, which means everyone wants to go last in the morning and first in the night.
Yesterday we went climbing THE GREAT WALL. The bus left our hostel at 6.40 and it was 3 hours drive to that part of the wall called Jinshanling. From Jinshanling we were suppose to climb 30 towers to Simatai, around 9 km and 4 hours of hike. We thought Huangshan had strengthened us, and Great Wall should just be an easy piece of cake. But like always, haha, no… Great Wall was hard. We went to the parts that were no reconstructed so the millions of stairs were all ragged and broken. It took real concentration sometimes to look where you are stepping. We also forgot a little about the sun, since it had been rainy and cloudy the couple past days. No one remembered to bring sun block, ay ay ay. Everybody are burning torches today, worst is Julian. We will be getting after sun and kylbalsam as soon as we see it.
Here are some of the pictures on the Great Wall.
Our minibus at toilet stop.
We had to walk past a little village and their crops to get up to the wall. That alone took 30 min.
Great Wall in the beginning of our hike.
Great Wall in the end of our hike.
Jen and Em in a tower.
The old parts…
Julian on top of Great Wall.
All of us!
We got back at the hostel around 7PM and then headed straight to the night market for food!!
After that we even got some lovely foot massage that we all fell asleep at during the end. That’s all for now, and people don’t forget to comment!!
Tags: China '05
Janie
July 15th, 2005 at 7:00 am
Great wall, great you. Are you tired now? It’s time to come home. I am looking forward to see you!
July 17th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Tjo!
Nice pictures =) seems like you’ve had a fun trip! I havn’t been on the Great Wall yet.. hehe.. yepp, it’s sad.
You’re coming home soon, right =) so I’ll see you guys then! take care!
jj
July 18th, 2005 at 5:24 am
Hi everyone!
Finally we have managed to connect our internet at Raggarön. Wht lovely pictures you have added to you really onformative text!. We have been to the greatwall as well, it is fantastic. It seems as you have done alot of interesting visits.
We all look foreward to see you on Wednesday. We bet you all will be very tired but full of lifelong memories together.
A big hug to all of you from,
Bertil och Dessan
August 5th, 2005 at 1:09 pm
wow wall of china, nice looks like you’ve been doing load ofs adventure since i last wrote a comment. Must be great aswell as everyones chinese by now, hehe. Anyways its good to see that you have´great fun without to many major disasters.
Freddie