Huangyaguan Great Wall Hike
General Qi Ji Guang’s scuplture and the Huangyaguan Great Wall what he helped to build
The Qi Dynasty Wall is build with stones and the Ming Dynasty Wall is build with bricks
The Huangyaguan Great Wall
Impenetrable, dangerous, old and beautiful are some of the words to describe the Huangyaguan Great Wall. We started off from Beijing early in the morning and arrived at the Huangyaguan Great Wall’s just in time just for lunch. There were many restaurants to choose from. We were taken by the warmness of a host of a courtyard. I was not expecting much from the food. But it turned out to be much worse than I thought. The foot was badly prepared and the service was horrible, the tables were very dirty. I guess they just do not care of the customers are there are plenty of them coming every day and very few will ever return here.
Finished eating the food, we hired a tractor for 10 Yuan to send us to the summit. After that, it was 3 kilometers walk on the Great Wall down to the foot of the mountain. The Huangyaguan Great Wall was first build in the Qi Dynasty in the (700AD) and was heavily repaired in the Ming Dynasty. The Qi dynasty wall was build with stones and the Ming dynasty Walls were build with distinctive bricks. Walking along the Wall we could see sections of Great Wall were piled up with rocks and others with bricks.
Coming down the Great Wall, we visited a