Great Wall Camping
Take your favorite bottle of liquor and together with some good friends go and enjoy one of the best traveling experiences of your life. Camping overnight at the Great Wall, you can look up at a sky full of glittering stars. This nighttime Great Wall makes one feel like being in a cradle, its ancient body kindly embracing us. This place has seen the blood and tears of war, and also a thousand years of solitude. Perhaps like us, you are nothing but an adventurous, youthful vigor. Perhaps like us, you love to gaze at the shooting stars and tell stories till sunrise. In the morning you wake to another beautiful clear day, footprints and the echoes of laughter are the only things left behind.
- Hiking Distance: 10-12km per day
- Duration: 3days
- Fitness level needed: 3
- Price: 1350¥p.p. (all.incl)
- Meeting time: 09.30am
- Back in Beijing: 4pm (day3)
- Number of people: 4-10
An amazing 3 day great wall camping adventure combining the highest great wall around Beijing with one of the best preserved wild great wall sections.A once in a lifetime experience and a real treat for amateur photographers.
Itinerary
Day1:
Private car to the start of the hike where we will distribute all camping gear needed for this trip. After a lunch at the local farmhouse we ll spend most of the day hiking up towards our first camping location. It' s a beautiful trek trough the Beijing mountains. In the early evening we ll pitch our tents at the Highest great wall tower of Beijing. Sleeping on the wall at this spot is for sure the best great wall experience you can have as Sunset and sunrise are truly amazing here.
Day2:
Hike down on the wall from long valley and up again on the very well preserved staircases of Chenciabo great wall. At our camping place we ll bbq some duck and drink some great wall wine while enjoying a fantastic scenery!For sure another highlight of this great wall trek!
Day3
An 8 km hiking on the great wall will bring us to a farmer house where we can enjoy a late lunch and take our bus back to Beijing.
Backgroud info
During Ming Dynasty, four km south of the Great wall they restored an old city, because that local area is like a long sweeping Valley, they give this City the name Long Valley City.
Through this area is channelled most of the traffic approaching (Peking) Beijing from the North. This was also the natural pass through the mountains fought over during times of war. The Great Wall shows the bullet scars from the Nankou war between China and Japan in the years leading up to World War II. The Chinese 529...
During Ming Dynasty, four km south of the Great wall they restored an old city, because that local area is like a long sweeping Valley, they give this City the name Long Valley City.
Through this area is channelled most of the traffic approaching (Peking) Beijing from the North. This was also the natural pass through the mountains fought over during times of war. The Great Wall shows the bullet scars from the Nankou war between China and Japan in the years leading up to World War II. The Chinese 529th Army Group held out to the last man here making a solemn memorial for the Chinese people. There remains ruins of towers along the Great Wall which were constructed during the Yan Kingdom in 600 A.D. The highest point along this area is 1438m, making them the highest point in this part of China. There is a beautiful meadow called Huanghuapo. During the autumn, it blooms with yellow flowers
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Weather
Sunday
Light Rain Shower
29 | 16 ℃
Monday
White Cloud
29 | 19 ℃
Tuesday
White Cloud
25 | 16 ℃
Wednesday
Sunny
29 | 15 ℃
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