Jinshanling Great Wall to Gubeikou Great Wall, 2016/10/03
Photos from a holiday hike along the Great Wall, starting at Jinshanling and finishing at Gubeikou.
We did this hike on one of the few days during the Golden Week holiday where the weather was acting nice – no smog, no rain, all clear and sunny.
The holiday traffic wasn’t so good, and we got a late start on the hike. But that meant we finished the hike in the late afternoon, and the light was really good for photos.
We usually do this hike going from Gubeikou to Jinshanling, but today we thought we’d try it the other way. When we saw the crowds at Jinshanling’s ticket office we thought we might have made a mistake, but pretty much all the non-hiking visitors were concentrated on the wall near the cable car, and we escaped from there pretty quickly. And after that we saw hardly anyone else about. Perfect!