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Great Wall of China at Mutianyu
One of the most amazing man-made structures in the world is the Great Wall of China. The section of the wall at Mutianyu is considered to be one of the more scenic parts of the wall. Combined with its...
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Mutianyu Cable Car Lounge
There are several ways to go up to the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall. You can do what the original inhabitants did, which was to walk all the way. It must have been brutal in the winter...
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Mutianyu Cable Car Entrance
The Great Wall of China was always built on the crest of the mountain ridge, as it always needed to be at the highest point in order to offer effective deterrence to enemies. Thus, there is a...
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Path Up To Mutianyu Cable Car
The path up to the cable car at Mutianyu gives you a small taste of what you will be in for when you are walking on the wall. The good thing about it is that it is flat. No ankle-twisting ruts or...
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Olympic Green
The Olympic Green is an enormous park built in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics and 10 competition venues including the Beijing National Stadium, seen here on the right and the Beijing National...
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Beijing National Stadium
The National Stadium in Beijing was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. At that time, it could seat 91,000 spectators, but has since been reduced to 80,000. The distinctive design resembles a bird’s...
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Beijing National Stadium Grounds
As you approach the Beijing’s Bird’s Nest in Olympic Green you see this wide expanse of paved but unpainted areas. Suitable for parking, supposedly. But parking what? There are no parking lines or...
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Beijing Olympic Medalist Wall
In the shadow of the National Stadium in Beijing, the now 80,000 seat stadium that was the main competition venue for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, is a wall in which all of the winners’s names were...
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