Given that this was my first time in China, seeing the Great Wall was kind of necessarily on the bucket list. I always knew that the Great Wall was supposed to be impressive, but I suppose with all of the hype I had heard about it beforehand; how it is often mentioned in media, movies, and whatnot; how all of my friends have seen and visited it already, I was just a little dulled and not particularly excited.
But even after all of that, lemme tell you, the Great Wall was indeed very impressive. And I have photos to prove it!
However, first we went to a Ming Emperor Tomb because traffic was so bad. The tomb was cool too!
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| Emperor's Tomb! |
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| Guardian Lion on the Spirit Road |
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| Chinese version of the unicorn! See the horn? :) |
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| There were two of each animal- one sitting and one standing. They were said to alternate sitting and standing with day and night :P |
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| Serious scholar :P |
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| The Emperor's casket...with his two empresses (not one, but two!) |
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| View from the top!~ |
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| The Great Wall!! :D |
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| People on the Great Wall :) |
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| Badaling! (Thank you glare....) |
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| Just to prove I was there. :) |
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| And it goes on.... |
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| And on.... |
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| And on.... (Love the view~) |
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| You get the point. It keeps going. Also, it was a gorgeous day! <3 |
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| And sometimes it was so steep I felt like I was going to die. :( |
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| I climbed all the way up there!! :D |
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| EASC360 family photo! :) |
I'm getting really lazy about this blog. Apologies for the gross delays in updates, but I'm feeling burned out from life in general. :(
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