My language partner (Beijing student who I've been set up with the program to practice my Chinese and show me actual life in China) brought me to the real Great Wall. The Great Wall I visited my first week was awesome but also heavily touristed and well maintained. The ancient sections of the wall (although technically not open to the public) are equally as awesome with their "Lord of the Ring"-esque look and ruined appearance. I literally had to climb a mountain to get there (and not like a hike, like legit had a slab of rock with crevices in it that I free climbed #swag). It took us about 2 hours to reach the wall but once we got there it was awesome (see pictures below). We than spent about 4 hours hiking the wall itself before ending up at a touristed section where we found a cab to get home. It was an awesome hike and we even met some cool Kiwis and hiked with them for a bit. Definitely would recommend trying to see these sections of the wall to anyone going to China. Sorry in advanced for the excessive picture posting below but I knew words alone couldn't describe how cool the 古老长城 was.
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| The mountain I hiked up. |
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| If this isn't Middle Earth I don't know what is. |
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| Straight swag. |
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| Me and our New Zealand friends getting ready to climb a steep section of the wall. |
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| View from the top of the World. |
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| Me and my language partner. |
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| A little overgrown I guess. |
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| Abandoned watch tower. |
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| Ancient steps. |
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