Great Wall in Pictures

It was such a great way to spend my last day in China, I figure it deserves a blog post of its own. Heading out North East of Beijing with some people I met the day before, we spent four hours walking a 10.5km stretch of the wall. Put simply, this was an awesome day. It was also one hell of a walk, as you will see in the photos below. It's well worth clicking on the photos to blow them up to full resolution. The enormity of this wall really needs to be seen to be believed

First, a picture of the all conquoring Ghengis Macca ..


the wall that lay ahead ..


the wall already conquored ..


My army - Jinelle, Eric and his name-forgotten wife (making for some awkward interactions). Jinelle's partner Scott is not pictured...


heading down into the valley where our walk finished ...


a storage building (where they probably kept the grog) ..


this photo is for my t-shirt idea to compete with the "I climbed the great wall" t-shirts on sale all over China - the "I got drunk on the great wall and fell off" t-shirt.


and one more photo of me on the wall for good measure ...