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Beijing Great Wall Hiking from Simatai West to Jinshanling

  • Destination

    Beijing

  • Trip duration

    1 day

  • Price

    From 1200 cny

  • Min/Max travelers

    Min. 2

  • Transport

    Van & Foot

  • Accommodation

    N/A

The hike is not particularly intense, and suitable for energetic kids. Pace will be your own and the wall do not report dangerous parts. Our guides provides drinks, energetic bars, and are first aid trained.

Our guides are Wall Guides: they spend over 200 days per year on the Wall only. You will come back with much more than the pleasure of a great hike

BEIJING, CHINA

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As the most popular hiking trip of the Great Wall around Beijing, it will show you both Simatai and Jinshanling sections of the wall within 3 hours. A 40-minute step walking up will lead you to East-Five-Eye watchtower at Simatai West. You may take a few breaths before reaching the Wall and will be rewarded by the breathtaking panoramic view of this amazing human constructions. Take a short break and some photos here, and we will then walk westward to Jinshanling. We will get off the wall at Shalingkou at Jinshanling; alternatively you can walk another 30 minutes if you feel energetic and then get off the wall at Zhuanduokou. The un-restored wall, the watchtowers, the beacon towers snake on the mountain from east to west. You will have the chance to meet local farmer friends, try local home-made food, and learn local community development. It is the best place for keen photographers along the wall. Regarding fitness, it is a medium-level hiking for all ages. Pick you up at your hotel at 8 am and then drive to Simatai West. You will start hiking around 10:30 am, and it will take about 3 hours to complete the hiking. Lunch at a local farmer’s restaurant will be organized after the hiking before returning your hotel.

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Beijing, home of many Emperors, shaped by the Khans, and reshaped by China's magnificent economic boom of the past four decades, offers a perfect mixture of ancient and modern, and of tradition and progress.

Beijing, home of many Emperors, shaped by the Khans, and reshaped by China's magnificent economic boom of the past four decades, offers a perfect mixture of ancient and modern, and of tradition and progress.

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