Great Wall Hiking
Wild Jinshanling to Simatai West Great Wall Hike
A fabulous 10km hike on top of the 400 year old Jinshanling Great Wall. We start in the cornfields, climb hills with pine trees, hike past all 67 watchtowers of the Jinshanling Great Wall end with the steepest staircases of the Great Wall just West of Simatai Great Wall. Most magazine photos of the Great wall of China are taken from this section.
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Meeting/drop off point: Lama temple subway exit B (How to get there?)
Jinshanling to Simatai Great wall hiking
Jinshanling to Simatai Great wall hiking
Visited July 2016
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Private tours are great way to travel if you have a group of friends, family or colleagues ready to explore nature. Also for school trips or company team building activities a private tour is the way to go. We have experience guiding trips with up to 60 people from international schools and companies. Price of private tours will vary depending on the number of people, the chosen transport and accommodation. Let us know your desires and we will customize a trip for you. Open tour
Are you planning far ahead but your favorite trip is not on our schedule at the time you’re coming to China? Are you an indepentdant traveler that wants to keep the costs as low as possible? Just let us know your favorite trip and starting date at least 6 weeks in advance and we will add your trip to our hiking agenda. As soon as we have 6 people joining the trip we are good to go!
Private tour prices for Wild Jinshaling to Restored Jinshanling to Simatai West Great Wall Hike 1 Day
Prices are per person and include:
Pick up and drop of by private bus at your hotel ( Please let us know the pick up address)
English speaking guide
Entrance tickets
Lunch and water
| Group Size | Price pp in CNY | Price pp in USD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Kids <18 | Adults | Kids <18 | |
| 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 4 | 1100¥ | 990¥ | 167$ | 150$ |
| 5 | 950¥ | 855¥ | 144$ | 130$ |
| 6 | 900¥ | 810¥ | 136$ | 123$ |
| 7 | 800¥ | 720¥ | 121$ | 109$ |
| 8 | 750¥ | 675¥ | 114$ | 102$ |
| 9 | 700¥ | 630¥ | 106$ | 96$ |
| 10 | 650¥ | 585¥ | 99$ | 89$ |
| 15+ | Please contact us for larger group prices. | |||
Short Itinerary
08:00 am Gather at meeting point
08:30 am Departure with private van
11:30 pm Start hiking
12:30 pm Lunch at a local farmhouse
02:00 pm Continue hiking
05:00 pm End hiking
07:00 pm Arrive back in Beijing
Highlights
Wild & restored Great Wall
Included meals
Authentic farmhouse lunch
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Detailed Itinerary
From our meeting point (Lama Temple Subway exit B), we will take you on a 2 hour drive to the border of Beijing and Hubei. The hike starts with a 45 minute hike through the farm fields and over the hill ridges allowing us splendid views over the wild Gubeikou and Jinshanling Great Wall. We follow the trail to our farmhouse friends for a delicious lunch at their authentic courtyard with view on the Wall.
Wild Jinshanling to Simatai Great Wall hiking
After lunch, we continue our hike. Within 20 minutes we set our first steps on the Wild Jinshanling Great Wall. The 10-km long Jinshanling Great Wall shows some amazing defensive features, such as barrier walls, battlement walls, watchtowers, gun emplacements, shooting holes and horse blocking walls.
Wild Jinshanling Great Wall
We hike down on the crumbled section of the Wild Jinshanling for about 30 minutes till we reach the extraordinary well preserved Jinshanling Great Wall. Here you can see how the Great Wall of China looked like during the Ming Dynasty.
Jinshanling Great Wall hike
The last stage of our hike is all the way up on the famous Great Wall staircases. We pass 67 watchtowers and the General Tower with its intoxicating views over miles and miles of Great Wall. We visit 4 more towers on the Simatai Great Wall and take a last spectacular picture of the Fairy Tower, the highest tower on the Simatai Great wall.
Jinshanling Great Wall steep staircases
A small trail through the forest will bring us down the mountain where our faithful driver will be waiting for us. We will be back at our Lama temple meeting point around 7 pm.
Level 2: Medium-strong
Its a long hike that involves a good climb at the end of the hike so we can rate it medium strong. There is a short cut where can avoid climbing up the steepest staircase but even with the shortcut it remains a strong hike so you need at least an average to good physical condition.
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