We woke up and had our favourite breakast of eggy bread, honey and watermelon and then set off for the day. We were going on an adventure to find the great wall, we decided we didnt need a stupid guided tour, we were explorers and we were going to get there by any means posible. We set off on the subway and found wallmart to find supplies for our epic adventure. Then back on the subway to the long distance bus station. We found our bus, got on and watched out of the window for two hours. The bus crawled towards the town we knew was near the wall. On the outskirts of the town, men jumped on and encouraged us off the bus into their cars (smart idea you aks? Luckily it worked out). It was a 30min drive in the car to the wall. We made it!!! It only took us 3 hours.
At the wall there was a chair lift up and a toboggan you could get back down. The toboggan looked immense but we only had the money for one option, so it was either; walk up for one and a half hours extreme hike in mid day sun and toboggan down, or cable up and walk down
The cable car won. The view going up from the cable car was beautiful, lush grass, mountains and the wall above us curving away as far as the eye could see. The cable car must have been at least 100-150ft up, heidi was slightly scared! We walked on the wall for an hour it was fantastic. Mutianyu was meant to be one of the quietist parts of the wall and it lived up to it, it felt like we were the only people on the wall. We were really glad we went. We then had the fun journey home, which for some reason only took two hours.
By the time we got back we were knackered! We showered, shoved dinner down and then fell asleep, it was a long day but well worth it!!
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