{"id":325,"date":"2015-04-23T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-04-23T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:26:44","slug":"the-great-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/2015\/04\/23\/the-great-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We climbed the Great Wall!<\/p>\n<p>After our breakfast, which is now toasted toast with honey and Nutella, we took the bus to get to Lili&#8217;s home. There we met Zu, a former tour guide and perfect German speaker. Together we drove to the Great Wall at Mutianyu, about 70 kilometers\u00a0northeast of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived there Lili bought the tickets although we offered to pay for\u00a0them. But it seems to be Chinese habit to pay for everything when you have guests. The ticket office is\u00a0about three kilometers away from the wall, so we had to take a shuttle bus to get there. After the bus stopped, we separated from Lili and Zu because they didn&#8217;t want to come with us on the wall. So we took a cable car to the Great Wall and started to walk to the left.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-325 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall001.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-333\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-333'>\n\t\t\t\twaiting for the shuttle bus\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-331\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-331'>\n\t\t\t\tthe cable car\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall003.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-332\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-332'>\n\t\t\t\tfirst look at the wall\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lucky for us today is Thursday so there were not many people on the wall, and most of them were tourists as well. While walking further away, we had to climb some really steep parts of the wall, but it was worth the effort. We got an amazing view over the wall and the landscape surrounding it.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-325 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall005.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall006.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall007.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall007-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall008.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall008-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall010.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall010-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall009.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall009-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>On the highest point there was this sign:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-340\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"wall019\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall019-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall019.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course we decided&#8230; to get pass it. And we were rewarded with an untouched part of the wall which we continued to climb a little while. It was like a small adventure, we even met a snake on our way.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-325 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall011.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall011-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall012.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall012-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall013.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall013-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Before we returned we had a nice little break on top of a former watchtower, where we had an amazing view. See for yourself:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-325 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall014.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall014-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall015.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall015-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/PANO_20150423_132650.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/PANO_20150423_132650-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall018.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall018-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall017.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall017-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Sadly we had to go back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/output_oE1Aqj.gif\" alt=\"output_oE1Aqj\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quite exhausted we arrived where we started and walked even a little bit further, because there was a second way to get back to the valley, which is a slide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/slide.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-349\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/slide-300x168.png\" alt=\"slide\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/slide-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/slide-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/slide-200x112.png 200w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/slide.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 80 Yuan (12\u20ac) we enjoyed the ride, although we encountered some obstacles, meaning slower drivers. But nevertheless we had a lot of fun and met with Lili and Zu at the bottom of the slide, 4 hours after we started with the cable car. We hiked approximately 8 kilometers and were pretty exhausted. Here is a map of the geotags of our photos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/gpsco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-351\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/gpsco-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"gpsco\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/gpsco-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/gpsco-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/gpsco.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then returned to the ticket office and drove to a restaurant where we had a very tasty lunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-350\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"wall024\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall024-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/files\/2015\/04\/wall024.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filled and exhausted Lili drove us back to our meeting point, we were sleeping most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Till tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>Alex and Lukas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We climbed the Great Wall! After our breakfast, which is now toasted toast with honey and Nutella, we took the bus to get to Lili&#8217;s home. There we met Zu, a former tour guide and perfect German speaker. Together we drove to the Great Wall at Mutianyu, about 70 kilometers\u00a0northeast of Beijing. When we arrived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/2015\/04\/23\/the-great-wall\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eThe Great Wall\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89539],"tags":[5223,97304,98910,98709,1219,98506,338],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peking","tag-breakfast","tag-hiking","tag-landscape","tag-mutianyu","tag-sports","tag-the-great-wall","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinchina2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}