Sunday, April 01, 2007
What a great wall!
Today by bus to the Great Wall. I intended to catch a bus to a specific section, between 6:30 and 8:30 am, as advertised. It didn' materialise.
I took a different "Tourist Bus" to the Wall via Ming Tombs.
After about 4 hours, we had stopped at an abandoned "Amusement" Park for an hour and then at a waxworks. I jumped ship and got a taxi the rest of the way to the Wall.
The Wall is stunning, awesome, moving, immense, precipitous.
Out of season, as now, it was still very crowded, but I did manage to find some empty sections.
I walked along it, about 8m high and 4m wide; it doesn't follow valleys of ridge liens - it takes the most up and down route it can find. The 5km I walked were like going up and down to and from Whitby Abbey continously.
A experience full of wonder.
I took a different "Tourist Bus" to the Wall via Ming Tombs.
After about 4 hours, we had stopped at an abandoned "Amusement" Park for an hour and then at a waxworks. I jumped ship and got a taxi the rest of the way to the Wall.
The Wall is stunning, awesome, moving, immense, precipitous.
Out of season, as now, it was still very crowded, but I did manage to find some empty sections.
I walked along it, about 8m high and 4m wide; it doesn't follow valleys of ridge liens - it takes the most up and down route it can find. The 5km I walked were like going up and down to and from Whitby Abbey continously.
A experience full of wonder.
# posted by David @ 6:49 am 
