China

Our trip to China and Mongolia as exciting and fun and full of surprises. In China we visited the Forbidden City, very crowded, the Summer Palace, full of people but more room to walk around, a market place and the best!! the Great Wall of China. Wow it was awesome. We drove about 1 1/2 hours out of Beijing to a section of the wall Mitianyu, which has been restored. We took a chair lift up a steep mountain side to the wall. It is built along the ridge of a mountain range. We spent about 3 hours walking/hiking on the wall. It goes up and down the ridge, amazing, how did they build this thing? (with slaves I am sure) We worked hard and were very sore the next few days, but it was worth it.

We found a marketplace behind the alleyway we were staying in, it was about 2 football fields big, and had everything, from food to clothes, to hardware to services, so fun to see. We enjoyed our time in China and I would love to go back to spend more time there.