The Great Wall

We drove 3hrs from Beijing to a small farming town and then hiked up this hill to the wall.






Check out all those steps! This is from the newer section of the wall, only about 20 yrs old.
This is part of the original wall over 420 yrs old!
A well deserved rest.
You can see how instead of steps they used to just have steep inclines, it was very crumbly at points and was almost harder going down than up!
Group shot!
Looking toward the steep climb to the next tower.
Tired and Happy.

Looking back on the 23 towers we hiked.

YAY!
WEEEEEEEEEE!!!