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Great Wall Blog

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Describe trips to the Great wall and other news related to the Great Wall of China. The base for the trips to the Great Wall is my home in Tangshan, Hebei province.

• Added on: Apr 8th, 2008
• Country: China
• Language: English

• Author: Kim Siefert
• Listed in: Travel
• Tags: china beijing hebei great wall badaling tangshan

Recent Posts

• Closed

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 23:32 in information

  After a long time of consideration I have finally decided to close this blog. I have still not decided to delete the blog completely or just leave it as it is. I had high hopes for the blog in the beginning but it never turned out to be what I had ho...

• Gallery update

  Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2009 at 21:58 in photos, beijing, gallery, gansu, great wall gallery

  I have given myself the daunting task of sorting all my Great Wall photos. I have a lot of photos, but a very bad habit of saving too many of them. To save harddisk space it is necessary to delete many of the duplicates and out of focus photos –...

• Shenweilou

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 23:51 in hebei

  Probably the most unique watch tower in the Eastern Hebei area is Shenweilou at the western section of Baiyangyu. Shenweilou (神威楼) meaning invincible might tower is without doubt one of the most unique, beautiful and most interesting of all the...

• Huachangyu West

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 23:20 in hebei

  About 2 kilometres northwest of Huachanyu the remains of another wall can be found. I have no information about this pass at all, but by the look of it, it might be an early Ming dynasty design. Even traces of watch towers can be found along the wall...

• Huachangyu (花厂峪)

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 22:50 in hebei

  An interesting place to visit in Qinhuangdao is Huachangyu, not very far from Weiziyu. The mountains on both side of the pass is very steep and treacherous and does not offer any good hiking terrain. What makes Huachangyu well worth the trip is the ...

• Liaoning towers

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 22:58

  Along the Great Wall there are dozens of different watch towers, some of them are unique while others can be seen at numerous locations. So far I have only seen this kind of towers in Liaoning province – in the section between Zhuizishan and J...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Jrayrice

Kim, your blog is fantastic! Your photo's are breath-taking!

Please add a piece about the yourself and your job.

Thank you for bring China and the Great Wall to us!

Posted: June 19th, 2008 | More Reviews From jrice13 | Report This Comment

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