We set up a camping trip on the Great Wall Spur, carrying all our gear up to our campsite on the ‘spur’ section of the wall. Clear skies made for awesome photos of Great Wall, mountains, and the sunset - click through to take a look.

Seventeen pictures of the Great Wall and other views at Longquanyu. It was a clear sunny day, click through to see the photos!

During the May Day holiday we headed out to Inner Mongolia for our Tengger Desert Lakes trip, visiting some local scenic locations either side of our two-day trip into the desert.

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This hike is a combination of two of our Level 3+ hikes: the Big Black Mountain to the Walled Village hike, and then the Moss Mountain walk.

It’s a long hike, but there isn’t a whole lot of climbing. That makes it a good choice if you’re interested in a long ramble in the hills of Huairou. Click through to see 23 photos of farmland and orchards, hills and mountains, and plenty of greenery.

We’ve done a clean up hike for Earth Day every year since 2009, heading out to hiking trails that have been somewhat spoiled by a buildup of trash and packing out loads of litter for disposal in a more appropriate location.

This year we teamed up with Gung Ho! Pizza to make our eighth annual Earth Day clean up hike part of the 1st Beijing Earth Day Festival, and we had a great turn out for the hike, with 26 people showing up to help out with the clean up.

We took on the challenge of cleaning up Nine-Eyes Tower, a tower on the Great Wall at Jiankou that’s 1,190m above sea level.

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The Flower Wood to the Ming Tombs hillwalking challenge was a 26km hike through the hills of Huairou and Changping, starting in the north of Beijing and finishing back on the city side of the mountains.

We know a lot of trails in this area of Beijing, and there are options for hikes of 10km, 15km, and 20km. This time we decided to join the whole lot up for a good long 26km walk. Maybe next time we’ll add the last section and make it 30km!

We like the Hemp Village to Gubeikou hike because – as well as great views of the Great Wall – we also get a look at rural life in the countryside as we walk through Hemp Village and the surrounding farmland.

You can get a look, too – click through to see the photos!

We headed out to Huairou District to go camping on the Great Wall, and this time we made it one of the type of trips where you need to carry all the gear yourself.

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The Stone Valley Loop follows the same section of wall as our Middle Switchback hike, but we start and finish on the other side of the hill – it’s a longer walk and more scenic, as the trail takes us through forest and further into the hills.

Click through to see shots from our April 16 visit, with photos of the spring blossoms as well as Great Wall and hikers.

The Long Way to Catch the Train hike is one of our older trails, and the area has seen a lot of change over the years—not least being that there are now easier ways to get to the train station than walking over a big hill!

On this visit the flowers were out, and we had a lovely clear day. Click through to see photos.

With recent repairs and renovations made to a previously ruined line of wall that was covered in trees, we were able to extend our Longquanyu Great Wall hike, and it turned out a little bit tougher than expected!

We had super views of Great Wall, mountains, hills, valleys, and flowers – click through to see eleven photos.

With the temperatures warming up a little earlier this year we thought it was time to start our camping trips again.

The temperatures dipped in the week before the trip, and we were a little concerned it was going to be freezing up on the wall.

Click through to see photos from the camping trip – Great Wall, the sunset, sunrise, and more!

Our Shuitou Village loop hike is a long walk through the hills of Hebei’s Huailai County, just over the border from Beijing.

The hike crosses through farmland and rugged hilly terrain on the way to Shuitou, a tiny farming village at the end of a long valley.

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We spent four days in Jiangxi Province, visiting ancient villages surrounded by terraced fields of rapeseed flowers. We also visited a porcelain factory in Jingdezhen, an area famous for masters of porcelain wares.

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This hike was one of our old favourites, but we stopped doing it because the starting point got all concreted over.

We went out to do some scouting for a new starting point, and found a good trail that avoided most of the concrete – good enough for us to start doing this hike again.

How was it? Click through to see all the photos!