[Part 4] One night in Beijing

One world, one dream

This is taken at the entrance of The Great Wall, from Badaling, China.

Towards the Great Wall of China

This would the final day of our trip to this city. We took the entire day to travel from Beijing to Badaling, which is one of the largest spot for tourists to get a glimpse of the Great Wall.

Seems like this is one of their favorite past-time snacks. Insta-sausage.

To get to Badaling from Beijing on your own, you need to get the tickets from North Beijing Railway Station. It’s RMB 14 Yuan per person and the trip would take approximately 1 hour. Though you opt for taxis if you want to.

There is ample of space on every seats.

Along the journey inside the train, it seems most of the terrain are dried up due to the winter.

Ba Da Ling

And so we have reached the railway station for BaDaLing. It is recommended to get the return ticket when you arrived as well.

A timetable for the train departure/arrival time.

The toilet, it seems there is no door for the female’s washroom.

Walking up the wall

And you need to walk approximately 1 kilometer from the station itself

And I really doubt that you would get lost in direction.

There are shops around as you walk towards the entrance of the wall itself.

And most of it seems closed, for no reason.

You need to purchase the entrance ticket for RMB 45 Yuan per person. And you can reuse the ticket as a postcard. Brilliant.

And there’s various people from around the world is at this place, though it seemed like that.

And it looks like an infinite path that you can never complete in 1 day.

And everyone’s from different part of the world are busy to take photos from the same angle.

Apparently they used Phillips branded lights.

And there’s Malaysian as well.

And this guy from…somewhere.

I’m really curious what does that building do during the old times? It’s quite a distant from the Great Wall itself.

And there are some roads that is really steep. That makes me really wonder how the hell they built this thing in the first place.

This is one of the few mini-watchtowers where they can hide and get a sight of incoming attacks. The wind blowing through these are pretty heavy.

I think this is a pretty well designed drain.

Not to forget, they can even do business up here. Probably a photo at RMB 20, 000?

And in case you are wondering, there is miraculously a toilet available here.

This may look really stupid to you but it did meant a lot (or a bit?) to most of the Chinese descendants from around the world which they believed that anyone that visits the Great Wall and climbed up to this spot (It’s pretty steep and a bit dangerous actually), you are considered as a great Han-people. Sounds like some old-beliefs that gets passed on till today.

Panoramic Firewall of China

It’s really funny (and unattractive) how these panorama pictures turned out. Probably there place is too big for me to even capture all the details on my kit lens.

It’s even funnier to see some “unrealistic” or unexpected auto-merging done by Photoshop.

There’s aplenty of trash to be found everywhere.

We took a different route to head back down towards the entrance.

And some weird looking bird with some long tail.

Rich and protected.

Why there are 4 dogs and 1 lion?

An (almost) aerial view of the entrance from the Great Wall.

Lunch time

Heading back to town

Not long after the lunch itself, which we’ll have to wait for our train to arrive at 7PM, it gets dark pretty quick and really really cold.

And there doesn’t seem like a lot of people visiting during night time.

And so it goes 1 whole day for the trip from city of Beijing to Badaling.

We thought it would be the last night in this city and went back to get the tasty lamb-sticks from this friendly seller.

This is how the boarding pass from the airport of TianJin looks like.