In honour of the Chinese New Year, I decided to dedicate this post to one of the greatest world wonders, The Great Wall of China.I traveled to Beijing two summers ago. I remember the flight there really well because it was during the peak of the swine flu outbreak (not even global epidemics can stop me from traveling). Before we were let off the plane, government officials came in with these thermometer like guns which they scanned over our foreheads. If you were under a certain temperature, they would let you go.
The unfortunate ones were led off by strict looking officials into a private room for further questioning. Or at least, that's what they told us...
There's a bus that takes you directly to The Great Wall which is great, but make sure you do some research, as some tour companies are scams. It was weird arriving at The Great Wall for the first time because on one hand, you're starring at this massive work of ancient civilization...and then you look behind you, and oh look, there's the highway. For some reason, I had always envisioned The Great Wall to be a long continuous pathway, where walking across would feel like strolling through a park or something. Ha ha ha. Let's just say that calling the Great Wall a breezy flat path is like stating that Hitler had no interest in world domination.
