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According to Neil Armstrong he can viewed Great
Wall of China from space, this shows that Great Wall is so huge that we
can see with our own bake naked eyes to see it from space. Great Wall
of China location is scatter around North West to North East in China
mainland.
A lot of
people asking many questions about Great Wall every day, here is the
one stop answers to all the questions, include some of the best
introduction, advise and how to guide to you as much as possible!
When is Great Wall first built?
It is 221 B.C. during Qing Dynasty.
Who build the Great Wall of China?
It is built by Qing Shi Huang, the 1st emperor in
Qing Dynasty, after he united the whole China, he started to build this
Great Wall to prevent enemy from North to enter his land.
How long is the Great Wall of China?
Great Wall covers from west to east, crosses
HeiBei, Beijing, Inner Mogolia, ShanXi, XiaXi, LingXia, GanShu, and
LiaoLing, that span across 13300 kilo meters, hence it has the name of
"Wang Li Chang Cheng".
There are many great wall of China location
scatter around the northern part of China, the main purpose is to
prevent invasion of enemy especially the nomadic tribes in the north,
there are thousands of watchtowers laying along the Great Wall. Couple
of Great Wall that one should visit are Badaling, Mutianyu, Jinshanling
and the most physical challenging one Simatai. Each of this Great Wall
has its own beauty and uniqueness that is worth to visit.
Badaling Great Wall
Badaling
Great Wall of China location is at about 60Km north from Beijing
town, in the YangQing district. It is the most remarkable Great
Wall build in Ming Dynasty (year 1505). It was awarded the UNESCO
Of World Heritage in 1987, in 1995-2000, roughly 300 world wide
country leaders visited Badaling Great Wall, and it is now grated
as 5 A travel site in China.
Badaling Great Wall basically opens
up an area of 3741 meter length to tourist visit, it can divided
into 2 sites, the north region with 2565 meters and south region
with 1176 meters, total of 16 combat and watch towers. There are
many must see sites at here, below are some key sites.
Things To Do Or See:
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Wall of Great Wall which
design with 6-9 meters height, 6.5-7.5 meters width, rounder top
width of 4.5-5.8 meters, the top floor space is able to hold
either 5 horses in parallel or 10 soldiers matching parallel. The
structure of Badaling Great Wall is constructed by using marble
stone pillars, big stones, soils, stone tiles with weights
ranging from 1.5 tones to 1.7 tones each.
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Watch Towers are
interesting to see as they have different designs some have
double stories, some have many windows, some have underground
storage room and some are like watch towers. The steepest tower
is between the southern 3rd and 4th tower with 70 degree.
Northern 5th tower is a two stories tower which has the most gate
arch to support 2nd level, total about 30 gate arch. The largest
tower is at northern 6th tower with area of 12.6 meters by 8.5
meters, about 100 meters square. The tallest tower in Badaling
Great Wall is at northern 8th tower with the height of 888
meters, and it is the best place to see the whole view of
Badaling.
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Great Wall Museum -
Opens 1994 for public, total of 9 exhibition hall adds up to 3000
meter square, exhibit content includes history, political, war
fare, economy and culture surrounding great wall.
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Great Wall 360 degree
Cinema - It shows the 360 view on the movie of "Great Wall"
from far eastern ShanHai gate to western JiaYi Gate total of 6000
meter Great Wall includes ancient building of Great Wall, war
zone documentary, history narration, local myths about Great
Wall, and the best is showing the 4 season view of Great Wall.
How To Get There:
1. In Beijing City board city bus
919 from Front Gate, normal bus cost RMB8 per person,
air-conditional bus cost RMB12 per person, return bus is at Great
Wall entrance near The Bear Park.
Admission Fee: Low Season (1st Nov - 31st Mar):
RMB40 ; High Season (1st Apr - 31st Oct): RMB45
Cable Car: RMB 40 (one way), RMB60
(round trip)
Opening Hours: 0630-1900 (In
Summer), 0700-1800 (In Winter)
Mutianyu Great Wall
Mutianyu Great Wall of China
location is at about 73km north from Beijing town, in the HuaiRou
district. It has its special architectural design where it has the
most dense watchtowers, most important gate at northern region,
also it has the most beautiful surrounding mountain scenerary
changes with the 4 seasons - Spring, flowers blossom all around the
mountains; Summer, the greenery pleases the eye with nice
rhythm of flowing streams; Autumn, mountain in fire covered
by red leaves, fruits harvesting; Winter, snowing in the ice land
cover with white and silver lights. In 2002, it was rated with 4 A
travel site in China.
Things To Do and See:
- Architecture landscape. Closely packed
enemy towers, narrow and dangerous passes, bulid up with
battlements supporting both side. Basically can split into north
and south region. In north side there is a famous spot looks like
the edge of an ox horn at above sea level about 1000 meters, also
there are sections like flying eagle and design like arrow located at the highest
and steepest mountain peak cover by the clouds. The Great Wall of Mutianyu landscape just like a flying dragon laying around the
peaks of mountains.
- Cable car experience - Mutianyu
Great Wall has the most advance, longest cable car with 723 meter
and 640 meter height, 58 cabin with fully automated door, can
transfer 1800 people per hour in one way.
- Self Control Speed Roller
Coaster - The maximum speed of this coaster can reach to
30KM/hour, total length of 1580 meters. Very exciting experience.
How To Get There:
1. At Beijing town DongZhiMen
board city bus No.916 or No.936 stop at HuaiRou International
Conference Center, change mini bus or taxi to Mutianyu Great Wall.
Admission Fee: RMB40 (Adult),
RMB20 (Children)
Cable Car: RMB 50 (round trip)
Opening Hours: 0730-1830 all year
round.
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