Great Wall of China Notes

Penalty on organized Wild Great Wall Hiking fined up to RMB 30,000

This month "Standard Administrative Penalties (Trial) assessed by Beijing Cultural Relics Adminstration" goes into effect. The new regulations clearly

Sleeping on the Great Wall, Camping on the Great Wall

Finally we ended our 6-hour hellish march from Gubeikou Great Wall to Jinshanling Great Wall at 5:00pm, September 26, 2010. But it's not the end for u...

Heat wave hits Beijing

"The Great Wall" by John Man

The month-long 2010 World Cup "destroys" my routine life. But one thing I still keep on doing is reading. I've been reading a 410-page novel "The Grea...

The Visits to Jinshanling Great Wall will double

With the closure of Simatai Great Wall, the volume of hiking Jinshanling Great Wall will increase greatly. To have a snowball effect, the local Jinsha...

Simatai Great Wall closed since June 17, 2010

On June 10, 2010, we got a fax from Simatai Great Wall Administration to the effect that Simatai Great Wall is going to be closed since June 17, 2010...