Camping on the Great Wall of China & Beijing city tour

Did you know you can camp on The Great Wall of China?? Well you can with The Dragon Trip and this is exactly what we did! And not only did we camp on the great wall but we stayed on a disused part and didn’t see any other tourists! We took a bus 2 hours from Beijing to the Great Wall of China, we had to walk nearly 1 hour up hill to the wall with our camping equipment which was hard work and it didn’t help that it was pouring with rain too! We set up our tents next to The Great Wall of...

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Posted by The Wandering Quinn
on 23rd June 2019

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