Saturday, December 10, 2005

Great Wall (Mutianyu Section) Part 3

Great Wall (Mutianyu Northern Section)
Its a prettry long walk with thousands of stairs to climb ... my knees were shouting out loud by the time i reached the northern part of the great wall. It took about 2 hours and i guess i was the slowest ... it was great fun walking though...
Half way thru the Great wall.
northern section of Mutianyu uphill walk. you can see people walking all the way up and thats nothing compared to final hurdle.
How many will make it to this section. I dont know but in our group of 14, only 7 walked till this point and beyond.
Final hurdle of some 500 steps... pretty difficult to climb... :-)) and the top most point is the northern section of Mutianyu. beyond this point its only risky to climb as its not constructed and its more steep.
People who made it... who actually completed the walk of Mutianyu section of The Great Wall. I closed my eyes. :-)
Its me again, and behind, a very beautiful view of The Great wall. :-)) Almost everybody took photo at this spot.
View of southern section of Mutianyu and we going back to center.... when we reached slideway, I was exicted to go down on vehicle which slides ...something like water slider. I have captured that in video... its very beautiful 5 minutes of video, but its too huge to upload.
Scenic view from Northern Gate.

It short, Walking on the Great Wall is amazing experience. Its painful and for me it was brutal, I missed falling from stairs 3 times. twice while climbing final hurdle. But its worth and I feel really proud that I have walked all the way up till this point.
:-))

Monday, December 05, 2005

Great Wall (Mutianyu Section) Part 2

Great Wall (Mutianyu Southern Section)
This is the End of Southern section of Mutianyu. The Gate seen is the picture is point till where visitors are allowed. Beyond this place there is no proper construction, but visitors still manage to reach next Gate walking thru all the tall dry grasses... View from this point is amazing... :-))
This is regular Stitch, having a beautiful scene of most of the Northern Great wall section in Mutianyu.
View from one of the Gate or barrack.

This is one of my best photos. I didnt expect it to so good when shot. Enjoy the beautiful scenes from Great wall.