Looking at Mutianyu Section
Here we are looking across the valley at Mutianyu, one of the wall sections near Beijing that has been fully restored and is now a major tourist
attraction with chair lifts to help people get up to the wall and back down. If you look closely, you can clearly see how much more defined the wall is there than in the more decrepit sections we were hiking.
Wall Towers & Development
One thing Beijing has in common with my former home of Southern California
is the increasing presence of McMansion developments further and further out from the city core. Just about every place I’ve been in the hills and outskirts of Beijing has more and more development of weekend houses and McMansions. This shot looks down over the first two towers we passed on our hike, at the little town where we started: see the buildings under construction.
(so much world, so little time....) 