It was Monday in Beijing, we had a plan to go to the Great Wall of China again. We hired a 7-seater Buick from the hotel with a driver as we were unable to get a car from outside vendor. It is much more expensive of course, but we had no other choice and just tried to enjoy it anyway. The van was clean, so was the driver, it was all nice and comfortable inside, bottled water was provided and some wet towels too. I am quite pleased that it was quite worth the price.
Upon discussing our first destination with the driver, we headed to Mutianyu. We have been to the more popular Great Wall spot in Badaling the last time we came to Beijing. Our two daughters, however, came to this same side during their previous visit with the school, climbed - walked- maybe were dragged (who knows?) up all the way and managed to see some snow in March a couple of years back. The Mutianyu Great Wall lies in Huairou District, approximately 73 kilometers from Beijing. I took us around 1 1/2 hours to get there.
We were aware of the availability of Cable Car there, thanks to Samantha Brown of Discovery Channel. We purchased five tickets to take us up, enjoy the view, took a little walk and some photographs and went back down, with cable car again. We wanted to take luge down, but didn't really want to walk more to find the location. Some lazy people we are!!!!!!
What a time saving, as we wanted to see the venue of Olympic Games and check out fake products at Silk Street.
A very charming little boy suddenly came out from one of the forts and started talking to DH. Cute!
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