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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.
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The Wild Wall at Huangyaguan
Google Earth is a very useful tool to plan trips to the Great Wall, but unfortunately only a small part of the wall is covered by high resolution image - among them Huangyaguan. After looking at the Huangyaguan area I located a place where it seemed ...
Repair of Huangyaguan
Between the walls of Huangyaguan a small museum tells the story of the Great Wall and especially Huangyaguan. Unfortunately all the text is in Chinese, but it shows some pictures of how the wall at Huangyaguan looked like before it was restored. Th...
Original wall at Huangyaguan
The Great Wall at Huangyaguan is almost completely restored, but climbing to the Phoenix Tower it’s possible to see small traces of the original wall on the cliff opposite the tower. It seems to be a pretty steep climb to get up there so I wo...
Huangyaguan
In the weekend I had the opportunity to visit Huangyaguan (黄崖关) for the second time, about a year after my first visit. Huangyaguan is located in the northern part of Tianjin municipality close to Jixian. From Jixian follow S101 north trough th...
