Tuesday

Tuesday, I walked the Great Wall: Mutianyu Section.  I had previous planned to visit the Huanghua Section (and partially did), but when I got there with the tour guide, after paying a "park ranger" to get into the area, we hike to the base of the wall and are told by a guard that we cannot enter because there is too much construction.  The only reason that I hired this guide was to take me around this particular wall, which had previously never been reconstructed, so it was all natural.  I would have never hired a guide in the first place, if I could just find it and walk like everyone else.  This was quite irritating, to say the least.  So, he suggested another section and we headed off.  Mutianyu was pleasant, as I saw maybe only 10 people on the wall for the three hours that I walked.  I took some beautiful pictures!