Gallery: Bustling Beijing and Hiking the Great Wall of China!

Eddie, Trevor, Lynette and I about halfway between Jinshanling and Simatai.

Eddie, Trevor, Lynette and I about halfway between Jinshanling and Simatai.08-Feb-2010 08:44, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 4.5, 28.0mm, 0.001 sec, ISO 100

Beijing is the capital of the most populous country in the world and unsurprisingly it is rather busy. With only a week to explore what seemed an impossibly long list of things to do, we were all set for another crazy week with little sleep. We were also looking forward to visiting the fabled Great Wall of China; a feat of human engineering we’d been told would not disappoint! So, last stop in China – did we find our favourite bit of food? Why is it the local’s get absolutely slaughtered at dinner? And why was our train from Chengdu unexpectedly the last train in China we’d ever take? Continue reading Gallery: Bustling Beijing and Hiking the Great Wall of China!…