when it's just awesome to be surrounded by mountains! 崇山峻岭, 蓝天白云 (ermm about as far as my chinese goes) at simatai 司马台 Great Wall.
although that always puts me out of photo-whoring mode cos photos would always be too disappointing!
had a lot of fun with our good company =)
one of the biggest lessons here is to thank God for community.
he's 77 years old! and this was already pretty far up Simatai. uncle & auntie, you rock!
Simatai is some 130 kilometers to the north-east of Beijing. About 500 years old and one of the less restored sections, one website claimed that we'd have to go on all fours to climb up this rugged Great Wall! But it was quite a relaxing climb UP (downwards kills yr knees&toes), prob because we could only go up to 12 out of 16 watchtowers - and then peer at the rest through little holes...
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