Beijing Day 4 / Part 1 – The Great Wall
I ate too much again at the buffet-style breakfast. We English 8 met in the main lobby at 8:30 a.m., then traveled an hour or so by mini tour bus to the mysterious Great Wall.
Some facts about the Wall:
- Sticky rice soup and mortar were used to glue the bricks together
- Started -200 BC
- Has been worked for over 2,000 years
- Still has bullet holes from last battle
- Needs expensive maintenance due to time and tourism
Some shops
What a happening place. Tour buses clogged available parking space. Small shops galore offered touristy goods for sale, from postcards to fridge magnets, hot tea, cold drinks and all sorts of knick knacks. One, a department store type business, carried everything you might imagine. Would you pay $39 for a T-shirt or $25 for a kid-sized one? Would you pay six or seven dollars for a two-inch square fridge magnet? They…
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