Glory of Great Wall Hiking/1 Day Mutianyu

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This Hiking the Great Wall outdoor adventure holiday is an unparalleled opportunity to experience Mutianyu. Hiking the Great Wall at Mutianyu is used to serve as the the northern barrier defending the capital and imperial tombs. This section is surrounded by woolland and streams. It is less crowded than Badaling section and busy than Simatai and Jinshanling. It’s easy to access by 45 miles away from Beijing. The hiking the great wall trip will finish 16 densely placed towers with a total length of 2.5 km.

Itinerary
Pick you up at your hotel in Beijing at 8 am and drive to Mutianyu (1.5 hrs). You will start hiking the great wall around 9:30 am, and it will take about 3.5 hours up and down the same way. On the way back into Beijing we drive by the Olympic venues and you stop to take photos.

Mutianyu offers a wonderfully satisfying experience of great wall hiking. It has superb scenery, dense vegetation and many fine watch-towers in an excellent restored section which is about six metres broad. The brickwork is elaborate, with crenellations on both sides and finely curved eaves on some watch-tower roofs. There are decorative gables with animal statues, and tablets bearing calligraphy above some entrances. Hiking he great wall truly is an unparalleled experience.

There are 22 towers on the wall, and you will start from Tower 8 and finish at Tower 22. The western section is more steep and straight upward, so please take a breath when doing hiking the great wall.

Cable car, chairlift and toboggan (slide way) are optionals when you come down the great wall.

When you finish the great wall hiking at about 1 pm, your guide can organize a lunch in a local restaurant. You will be transferred back to hotel after lunch.