WALKING THE WALL THE ANCIENT STEPS SERVE AS A TOURING LINK, FROM MUTIANYU TO BOHAI SEA

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: September 5, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

BEIJING The steps are in blissful shade. We are climbing them under the cool pine trees up to the Great Wall where there is little escape from the heat and haze. Just to get to the wall, we walk up 1,000 nice, even steps.

This is Mutianyu, about 45 miles northeast of Beijing, a section of Chang Cheng as the Great Wall is called in Chinese, meaning, variously, "Long City" or "Long Fortification" built first in the sixth century and again in the 14th. We reach the wall and start up even more steps. The wall looks like an eagle, two wings spread across a crest of mountains. We rest in a ...

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