The Great Wall

Its official, we have been to China :) We visited the Great Wall on Friday and it was simply Amazing! We both loved and and would recomend it to anyone who happens to be in the area.

I was blown away by the size of it and to think about how it was built. It was a more of a hike than I was expecting but totally worth it. It was amazing.



Here is Chad on the Wall. My favorite part was the guard towers, they there pretty big inside and just had amazing views.

Again another great shot of Chad. The weather was perfect. It was warm but there was a breeze so it wasn't so hot. It was perfect.

It probably would have been more pretty in a few weeks when the trees are more green, there were only a few flowers on the trees.




This is on the way up to the wall. It was quite a hike to get up to. There were 3 options of where to go to the wall. 1st is very touristy with lots of vendors and lots of people, which is very common in China. 2nd is more remote, with fewer vendors and less people because Chinese people don't like to hike so much. 3rd is very remote and is also 3 hour drive away, with very little people because it is a fairly large hike. We choose option number 2. I was happy with it. There were still vendors at the bottom but we got some good stuff from them so it was ok. :) Chad hates suivenier shopping by the way :) But we got some anyways.

And here is a video that we took. WE LOVE THE GREAT WALL ! :)