Jinshanling Great Wall Photography Tour

Jinshanling Great Wall Introduction:

The Jinshanling Great Wall is located about 140 kilometers (87 miles) northeast of Beijing city, China. It is the best preserved part of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) with many original features. Jinshanling connects to the Simatai section of the wall in the east and Gubeikou section in the west.

The Great Wall at the Jinshanling is seven meters high, six meters wide, and built of rectangular slabs of stone. The brick-paved walkway along the top of the wall is four meters wide and the crenellated openings two meters wide. In the merlons (the solid intervals between the crenels) there are small holes for observation and shooting arrows. There are also special openings between the crenels to insert flags for display or signal transmission.

Day 1 Gubeikou

Arrival in Jinshanling Great Wall after lunch. Shooting panlong shan (Dragon Mountain) at Gubeikou. The hike begins at the Gubeikou section of the Great Wall in Miyun County, very close to the border of the Beijing and Hebei provinces. Even though it’s designated as a park, this section of the Great Wall is largely unrestored. It’s not often visited either, probably because it is so far away from central Beijing. this is the second-longest version of this route, where we walk all of the Great Wall at Gubeikou and just the first part of Jinshanling. Extremely fit regular hikers.

The sunrise and sunset in this part are the paradise for photographers.
Back to hotel after sunset.

Overnight: hotel down of Great Wall

Day 2 Jinshanling

Photography opportunity: West wuyan Building and East wuyan Building
The sunset’s glow appears to look like the head of a dragon above a section of the Jinshanling Great Wall.

Overnight: hotel down of Great Wall

Day 3 Simatai

Simatai Great Wall is bordered to the west by Jinshanling Great Wall. Simatai Great Wall is known for its daunting precipices – for example, the Sky Bridge section of the Simatai Great Wall is more like a delicate cock’s comb perilously attached to the bony ridge of a mountain (think of an undulating razorback), being not more than 40 centimeters wide in most places – but also for its daunting construction, which involved the use in some places of goats, since no other animal was suited for the purpose, so treacherous was the terrain (the goats had to be loaded with a single brick, albeit, a rather large, rectangular brick of the type used for parapets along the Great Wall, since too much weight could cause the animal to lose its balance and therewith its life).

Photography opportunity: the sunrise at Wangjing Building, Wudaoliang Great Wall
Overnight: hotel down of Great Wall

Day 4 Gubeikou

Photography opportunity: wohu Mountain (crouching Tiger Mountain), West Valley Great Wall.
A panoramic view of the sunset’s glow is seen at the Jinshanling Great Wall.
Overnight: hotel down of Great Wall

Day 5 Jinshanling

shooting the fantastic sunset glows above the landmark General Building at the the Jinshanling Great Wall.
Private transfer back to Beijing city or airport

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