China: Day 3

Day 3

The Great Wall! If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already ready my post on this amazing day. Hands down it was the highlight of the trip. What I didn’t mention in the earlier post is that we were on the wall for SIX hours!

To get to the wall we hired a cab driver to take us two and a half hours out of the city to Jingshanling. The agreement was that we did the 10K to another part of the wall called Simatai. The driver would meet us there and take us home.

At first I felt bad that he would have to wait for us, but when he picked us up at 7am his wife was in the front seat to keep him company for the day. It was a holiday, so I was happy to know we weren’t keeping him away from his family.

The 10K was only supposed to take 4 hours, but we were having such a great time enjoying the views, sunny weather and taking pictures that we stretched it to 6 hours. By the time we met up with the driver, we were exhausted and he might have been a little irritated with our lollygagging.

That night Rob reluctantly agreed to some Chinese opera, but in all reality it was not a variety show with a display of Beijing Opera. The Lao She Teahouse is pretty famous for these shows and has been visited by various world leaders and celebrities. Unfortunately, there was not photography during the show, so I have no visual images to display… the few I did snap were really blurry.