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SITE OF THE GREAT WALL AT JINSHANLING

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The must of the Great Wall. Same road as to go to Simatai, but continue about ten kilometers further to Jinshanling. There you will see a parking lot, often deserted on weekdays and the traditional window that will allow you to enter the site. A small walk-in walk will lead you into twenty minutes on the wall.

First option: if you are tired or poorly grounded, you can simply make the loop that connects the right-hand path, then a few hundred meters on the wall, and go down through the left access path. This little walk will take you an hour or two following your rhythm, and you will have a splendid panorama of this famous wall snapping on the top of the mountain landscape ridges to the horizon, like the famous back of the dragon, as the Chinese say. Sometimes even if the cloudy ceiling is low, you will feel like surfing the clouds and the wall will appear like a wavy stone line on a matted mattress, it's completely surrealistic!

Second option (Jinshanling/Simatai): for athletes. Make yourself deposit and ask your driver to get back to Simatai's car park, some 10 km later. Be careful, you won't have the chance to turn around. Once on the wall, you will head towards Simatai by following the winding path that rises to the assault of the steep mountainous slopes and often descend in such a vertiginous way. The landscape all around is almost lunar, at the limit of the fantastic, it looks like it's made to be the nut of this long snake. The wall is in very bad condition and in places you will be forced to bypass a ruined fork, laying your feet carefully on a rock almost peak! And then you'll have to climb windows and blocks scattered on the ground, moving from steep climbing to such steep descent that some, very unwittingly, do it partly on their pants. This is one of the reasons why it is essential to have good mountain shoes with a rigid sole to make this journey. So, by being careful and taking his time, there are no risks for good walkers. In addition, if you fear anything, improvised guides will start to accompany you… sometimes, they'll take you all along your walk, offering you help to climb a 40 cm high walk or to descend a steep slope… It is by far the most beautiful vision of the Great Wall and the wildest. Only the arrival near Simatai was a little restored. Walking normally and stopping for picnic, count a good day of excursion and about 4 to 5 hours walking along your pace.


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Visited in march 2018
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J'ai pris l'option 2) (de mafalbala)
Cependant je n'ai pas payé de taxi, jai marché, et jai coupé par la montagne sur un petit chemin. Ça m'a permi d'éviter de payer l'entrée.

Pour la rando, jai commencé à marcher Mais un homme posté la au milieu de nulle part à environ 30-45 minutes de marché de la porte principale m'a demandé de faire demi-tour...
Mais ça vaut quand même Le coup !!!

Pour rentrer, jai sauté dans un bus sur l'aire d'autoroute et négocier avec Le chauffeur le prix d'un voyage classique.
Visited in may 2017
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Le site le plus loin de Pekin ce qui permet d'y être moins nombreux et de pouvoir mieux profiter de cet endroit magique. Même si on a beau connaître cet endroit sans y être allé avant, on est quoi qu'il arrive envoûté par les lieux.
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Visited in november 2016
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Ce site étant plus loin de Pékin, il est moins emprunté et donc plus agréable pour les personnes n’aimant pas trop visiter ces lieux au milieu de la foule.
Il existe deux possibilités pour accéder au site par ses propres moyens en prenant un bus à la station WANGJING WEST
1) départ du bus touristique à 8h en saison jusqu’au 15 novembre (un seul horaire) qui vous dépose direct à Jinshangling West
2) sinon prendre le bus situé à côté, direction Luanping et descendre à l’arrêt Jinshangling highway station puis prendre un taxi pour les 5 derniers km pour environ 30 yuans de plus
Vous avez alors la possibilité de randonner coté Ouest vers le village de Gubeiku (entre 4 et 7h de randonnée selon où vous vous arrêtez vers Gubeiku et selon votre rythme) ou côté est vers Jinshangling East gate. Les paysages sont grandioses et époustouflants !

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