Have you been to the great wall of China??

Question

I just saw it on tv!!!!!

Answer 1

Yes, it is fantastic!!

The BaDaLing Great Wall  

Badaling Great Wall is located at Yanqing County, more than 70 kilometers northwest from the center of Beijing City. It is a mountain pass of the Jundu Mountain. Badaling is at the highest point of north end of the Guan'gou gorge, in which the Juyongguan Pass lies. In the history, the function of Badaling was to protect the Juyongguan Pass. Along with Guan'gou gorge, there are several interests and historic sites. Badaling is a rare ancient military defense project. The elevation of it is about 1,000 meters.

The wall of Badaling has a total length of 3, 741 meters with an average height of 8 meters The highest part is 15 meters. The total area for a tour is 19, 000 square meters. The top of the wall can permit five horses to be ridden abreast. There are arched doors at the inner side of the wall with very little distance between each two doors. The arched doors lead you to the top of the wall by stone stairs.

Badaling became a very important military strategic place since the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC) and the Warring States Period (476 BC - 221 BC). Many incomplete parts of the wall were proved to be built in the Warring States Period.

Badaling was the earliest section to be open to the tourists among all the parts of the whole Great Wall. 130 million tourists from China and abroad have visited Badaling; 370 foreign leaders and very important persons have come to climb Badaling successively.

This section of the Great Wall was made by huge bar stones. Some of the stones have a height of two meters with a weight of hundreds kilograms. Inside the Wall are made of mud and stone block. The top floor of the Great Wall is paved with square bricks which made the floor very orderly and smooth. On the highest place, signal fire platforms were set to send warning signals in the ancient China. One fire with one smoke means the enemy is about 100 men; two fires with two smoke means 500 men, and three fires with three smoke means more than 1,000 men... By this way, the persons who were warned were able to know the state of the enemy.

Near Badaling, there is a large-scaled Great-Wall-of-China Museum as well as the Great Wall National Theater from which you can get a full and complete view of the Great Wall.

In 1961, the State Council decided that Badaling was a national key protected culture relic unit. In 1987, Badaling became ' World Cultural heritage' by the United Nation.

Answer 2

Yes.  It is impressive.  Some parts of it, though are in disrepair

Answer 3

Yep, I live in Beijing. The Great Wall's amazing, especially the un-touristy parts that are in pretty broken condition. It's great to climb and a waterfall history behind it.

Answer 4

i have neverbeen to,maybe a couple of months later

Answer 5

Climbed it years ago with my family and friends, its not as tiring as it seems you can take the electric box things that hangs over the hills and do that. Its view are amazing!

Answer 6

Great wall of China is a must see attractions for visitors form home and abroad. To walk on the wall with thousands of history is  an incredible feeling in China. It will be better when you know something about the Great wall and history of the great wall. You can find information about Great wall here:

http://www.chinatravel.com/focus/great-w...

Answer 7

Should do it before Olympic

After that there will be a war

Gud luck

Answer 8

Been there a few years ago.

Answer 9

yup i went on a school trip. there are 2 kinds of hiking the great wall of china. most people choose to take the cable car up to the place where it has been renovated and the path is all good and stuff and people usually go up there and take a few pictures, walk for about 15 minutes then take the cable car down and tell other people they've hiked the great wall of china.

but our school chose to let us go on the other part, people call it the "WILD great wall of china". the roads on there have not been renovated at all, and we actually hiked it. we spent 6 hours just to hike like 0.9% of the great wall of china. and we actually hike it, we had to hike from the bottom of it to the top then to the bottom again. and the roads were really steep and dangerous. it was really creepy but it was a great expeirience., doing that made me loose 2 kg immeditely.

i recommend you to hike the wild side of it if you are not doing it with little kids or old folks.

HOPE THIS HELPED A BIT

Answer 10

Yes and I have even slept on it twice, it is very enchanting and just fantastic to be on it, I could go every day and never grew tired of seeing it, just absolutely awesome!

Answer 11

Yes, I've been to. The Chinese has a saying that said ' you are not a good man if you've never been to the Great Wall'.I visited the Great Wall in 1993. It's quite long and the roads are steep. Very exhausted to walk on. The starting point of the Great Wall is in Peking and the ending point is in another city. It will take a few months to walk through it. I heard that an American had done it in 3 months though I'm not sure how he did that as there is no facility like shops, toilets or showers all the way there. I also heard that astronauts said they can see the Great Wall on earth when looking down from the moon.