Yanqing Great Wall, 2013/04/13
Photos from a walk along wild wall on a windy weekend.
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Our Yanqing Great Wall hike follows a line of old and rough Great Wall near the border of Beijing and Hebei.
The path we follow for this hike takes us on and off the wall quite a bit, and on this visit we were off the wall a little more than usual, worried about being blown off by the strong winds!
We stopped for lunch at a nice high point that we use sometimes as a campsite, and then continued on to finish at a small village at the end of a long valley, passing the village reservoir on the way to the carpark where we found our bus.
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The bricks of this tower have fallen away to reveal the interior, made of rammed earth.
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The trail we followed took us on and off the wall as we walked.
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Back on to the wall, and up!
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It was a windy day, and the skies had been blown clear.
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We skirted the section in front – too crumbly to walk on, and we’d have been worried about being blown off by the strong winds.
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Views of the mountains and Great Wall.
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We walked up this valley to get to our lunch spot.
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Hikers walking a tricky path, with this stretch of wall built out of rocks and stones.
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The trail took us around this tower.
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Clouds over the Great Wall.
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The last section of the hike took us off the wall and up to a service road for a radio repeater station.
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We finished in a small countryside village, a little bit further down from this reservoir.
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Another photo of the reservoir.
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A small shrine in the village.