Beijing Trip Part 5

Allright, after so many days of delay (since part 4) due to mid-term holiday follwed closely by mid-term exams, now I have the tiniest gap of free time to construct this part 5 of our 2009 trip. And speaking of it, isn't it 2010 is already coming to an end ?? Gosh, the messy time line.... =.=

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Name : Beijing Trip Day 3 Part 2
Date : 29th December 2009
Place : The Great Wall of China @ JuYongGuan

 

So we continue from where we stopped at in the last post,

on half way climbing up the Great Wall.

forgotten how long finally we managed to reach one end.
Just one side of it only though. 

Seeing 4 of our tour members walking around down there.

excluding this small little girl.

the sky was so nice that day.

Hah...now that looking back at this photo,

I remember this couple.

1 from the States and 1 from Beijing.

They were in their honeymoon at that time.

and revisiting Beijing after many many years.

knew all these from a nice short chat with them. =)

I looked so small...lol...

We reached one end, and couldn't go any further.
Well, since there was nobody else there.

A perfect opportunity to have our own sweet time taking photos.

Jump 1.

Jump 2.

slow-mo walking.

My turn to jump jump jump...

After that, decided to take a short rest 

since there were only the two of us.

we sat down, took a deep breath 
and enjoyed the beautiful scenary.

tried to take a panorama shot but fail.

So can only post up seperate pieces of it. =.=

And everything turned even more beautiful when it approached sun set time.

playing with my shadow.

it is true, such historical structures sure need everyone's cooperation to take good care of it.

Endless wall....

Mountains on the other side of the wall.

Favourite photo of the day. ^^

Time to slowly walk back down the hill.

See how steep was it ??

walking down the Great Wall is never easier than climbing up.

Because when you were walking downwards,

you could see how steep it is in front of you.

And the strong wind kept blowing you off-balance.

An example just in case you don't understand what I mean.

Things doesn't look that scary when you are walking upwards right ??

but the view looked totally different from here.

just had to hold on tight to the handrail to prevail the strong wind.

Sharp corner.

Gaya sial....

just so sad to see such Vandalisme act.

How selfish were they...

Continue walking down.

with the mystery locks...

my hair was so messy after taking off the winter hat...

we were back to this stone slab again.

and he demanded another photo with it.

trying to measure how high was it.

reaching the foothill.

back to the pass gate.

favourite photo of the day number 2.

Look at the old couple at the right bottom corner.

"执子之手，与子谐老".

From here, the Great Wall looked grand.

I mean it has been so Grand all the while, 
but to be able to see it with your own eyes,

it was like "wow, how these people built it wei..."

and "how could the ancient soldiers stand climbing it everyday up and down??"

These hills were high, as I mentioned before,

it was more like climbing up a hill more than literally climbing any wall. but the excitement just keep driving you to go forward and forward,

until you reach one end.

and you don't really feel that tired after all.

it is 1 of the places that you're definitely coming back for a second taste. =)

we discovered this at the other side of the pass gate.

do you think it is a real one ??
or just an artifact ??

hey, I saw a familiar orange shirt guy down there.

discovered another small building nearby,

looked like a temple.

signalling an end to our Great Wall journey...

He was randomly pointing at a spot.

one of my stupidest posing photo...lol...

As an ending of this Great Wall trip.

A panorama shot of the Great Wall before we went back to our bus.

Some may noticed that Mrs. Phoon has been missing from this post.

Actually she just climbed half way only,

After she got tired she went back to the bus along with other Aunties,

While me and my brother went all the way Up...hehehe...

We left Beijing for ShanXi 山西 right after that.

Was a roughly 4 hours bus trip. Was sleeping all the way though.

Reached a town in ShanXi named DaTong 大同 around 8pm.

and had their famous ShanXi steamboat 山西火锅 as dinner.
As usual, the Night ended quite early.

and we would be travelling around DaTong the next day.

But what's over there for us to make such a long trip?

Coming Up Next : All the way for a Hanging Temple and Buddhist Temple Grottoes...under such extreme cold weather....like seriously??