2. I went to the Great Wall yesterday. I thought it'd be boring, just another tourist trap, but it was actually really fun! We went to the Mutianyu section, which is less touristy than some other sections, and I really liked the vendors selling stuff at the bottom. It reminded me a little of the vendors at Mont-Saint-Michel, which completely charmed me for some inexplicable reason. I think it was one of my favorite places in France...although I just loved France in general. ANYWAY, the BEST part of the whole Great Wall experience was definitely tobogganing down the mountain!! We took a cable car up, but on the way down, you can just get in this little sled thing and slide down in these metal half-pipe things, and you can control your own speed. Since there was no one in front of me, I usually went as fast as possible!! It was AWESOME!
Soooo pictures:
here it is, the stuff of your fancies and fairy-tales, THE GRRREAT WALL!
look how steep the steps to go up were!! good thing i bought comfortable shoes the day beforehand for 190 rmb...yeah i got 9 kuai off because my friend told the saleslady that i was a "famous american student studying at beida" hahaha
look how lovely!
i climbed this battlement
we went all the way to this unrenovated section of the wall. no wonder the wall didn't work...haha just kidding it didn't work because it was too big to properly man.
instructions for TOBOGGANING
see, to go faster you just push the lever down!
look how excited i am
look how EVER MORE EXCITED i am while going down!
the end of the run
what it looks like to ride down!
super duper!
LOL
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wishful thinking.
HAHAH i love your face expression in the very last picture.epic. missyous<3
When taking a picture please include the Chinese characters, for those of us that read. What is the Chinese term for Wiegand Toboggan?
ReplyDeleteHow would soldiers defend their country on this Great Wall, running up and down the steep stairs, back and forth from stations to stations, helping their comrades fending off the attackers. It's all a matter of which side has more man power at that place at one point of history. Where do they get their water and food supply? When there's thick fog and can't see the enemy, what can they do?
ReplyDeleteHow many people did it take to build the great walls? How many families broken because of the draft to build the wall?