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.

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Hiking Distance: 24km
Hiking Duration: 8-10 h
Fitness level needed: 3
Meeting time: 9.30 am
Back in Beijing: 4 pm(next day)
Number of people: 4-10
Price: 850￥p.p.(all.incl)

Next hike: 13/06/2012

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This isolated part of the Great Wall is covered with high grass and trees. Even from the top of the mountain it's hard to spot these well preserved Great Wall watch towers. This camping trip starts at the 1000 year old Baiyu village. Hiking towards the mountains we'll walk trough a really cool canyon. Have Lunch on a scenic spot with the view on Beijing's highest peak (LingShan 2303m) The camping spot will be next to one of the 7 watchtowers. Next morning the hiking die hards will have a chance to scale Beijings highest mountain. If you're not a real early bird than you can take a relax walk down for a couple hours and wait for the drive to bring us back to Beijing.

Backgroud info

7 Towers Great Wall historical background
The 7 Towers Great Wall is the most western part of the Beijing great wall and ends up in the Ling Mountain cliff strip, which forms a natural blockade. This Great Wall is not connected to any other parts of the wall, making this isolated section unique among all the pieces of the Great Wall.
7 Towers Great Wall is hidden between the luxuriant woods and Yellow Grassland, and situated at mountain meadows 1773 m above sea level. The grass here is only green for 3...

Meeting point and hiking location