today was our great wall day but first we had to mish to the west train station to book our sleeper tickets for the next night (to XIAN). and it WAS such a mish. the tube is not fantastically plannd and its like at least 1km from the tube to the train station (west) so you have to walk for ages to get there. annoying. chaos when we got there but found an english speaking window and got our tickets...score! anyways some reason to celebrate when youre expecting it to be shit and really difficult.
So we found our great wall bus to a town and then had to find a taxi to th part of the wall we wanted to see. There quite a few parts of the wall to choose but we wanted a part that wasn't really restored and wasnt so touristy. SO our completely non-english speaking driver took us out there and well it was getting pretty late by now so arn (as i do) was getting stressed cos supposedly the wall “shuts” at 5. SO we hooned as fast as you can go in a cable car and THEN took a finicular even further up which was lucky cos the next 17 flights of old stairs were a freakin killer. But reached the top and there i was...standing on the wall!!! and it was amazing, hardly any people (but enough to know we weren;t getting kicked off) and after a while the mist cleared slightly and ou could see the wall twisting off up the net lot of ranges, JUST like in pictures and it really was perfect. Walked down it for about 1-2 kms, LOTS of steep steps (down mostly) and it was pretty unrestored. walked through the turrets, some are in better condition that others. Leisurely made our way down, took an over the top amount of misty photos and found ourselves back on the path to the carpark...past THE biggest flying fox ever. was even too much for den, just mental.
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