Booking Date: June 26, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On July 3, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the Great Wall at Mutianyu.
We had a “jiaozi” (Chinese dumplings) lunch in Huairou town before heading back to Beijing.
Booking Date: June 19, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On June 29, 2008 Beijing Day Trips went on another Wild Wall Exploration day trip to discover alternative hike routes East of the back side of the Great Wall at Mutianyu.
From the village of Lianhuachi we first tried to go up towards the East, but after the first few watch towers lack of visibility by low hanging clouds, fog and rain prevented us from going any further. We did however find a watch tower in pristine condition, probably because it doesn’t see a lot of visitors.
At the foot of this tower we stopped for a quick sandwich and to pour the water out of our shoes and wring out our socks.
Back down we had a warm cup of tea and because it was still quite early we decided to try conquer that part of the wall from the other side. So we drove to the village of Shentangyu where there is a part of the Great Wall called Guandi.
Guandi village, which has a history of 600 years, is named after the defending army of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty reclaiming wasteland and settling down troops in this area. It has a total of 19 watch towers. The wall itself here is in not that great condition, but the watch towers are and basically you walk from watch tower to watch tower.
A short climb up took us to the first watch tower and from there it was a hike up via a path with kind of carved out steps in a soft rock underground. At the third tower those steps stopped and we more got the feeling of actually walking on the Great Wall. After 7 watch towers again low hanging clouds and rain made visibility drop down fast and thus prevented us from going any further.
Despite the weather it was all in all a fantastic day and we might use this experience to add some more new day trips to our program.
Booking Date: June 24, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On June 26, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the backside of the Great Wall at Mutianyu for a hike along the Wild Wall.
On the way we had a sandwich lunch at the ruins of one of the watch towers and on the way back to Beijing we did a drive-by of the Olympic Green.
Booking Date: May 23, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On June 20, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the Great Wall at Huanghua for the hike along the Wild Wall.
We climbed all the way to the highest top and had sandwich lunch there before taking the hike down again. Of course we deserved an ice cold beer after this 4 hour hike!
Booking Date: June 2, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On June 20, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the Great Wall at Jiankou for the 5km hike along the Wild Wall.
We had packed sandwich lunch at one of the ruins of a watch tower along the way.
Booking Date: March 28, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On June 18, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the Great Wall at Huanghua for the hike along the Wild Wall. We had sandwiches for lunch at one of the watch towers along the hike.
In the evening we went for dinner at the home of a local Beijing family.
Booking Date: June 7, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On June 13, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the Great Wall at Mutianyu.
Booking Date: June 2, 2008
Number of pax: 1
On June 4 Beijing Day Trips took 1 person on the Sidecar Tour ‘Beijing Sights’ to Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, Houhai, the Drum & Bell Towers, the Beijing Hutongs and the Lama Temple.
Booking Date: May 21, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On May 31, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the Great Wall at Jiankou for the 5km hike along the Wild Wall.
After the hike we went to the resort at Yanxi lake for a well deserved lunch.
Booking Date: May 19, 2008
Number of pax: 2
On May 26, 2008 Beijing Day Trips took 2 persons on a day trip to the Great Wall at Mutianyu.
We also hiked to two watch towers of the non-restored “wild” wall and went for lunch in Huairou Town.
In the afternoon we dropped the clients off at the Summer Palace.
