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How To Visit The Great Wall of China
How to Visit the Great Wall of China
28th October 2019
To get the most from the Great Wall, a must-visit China attraction, you should: choose the section you visit carefully, depending on your fitness and interests. Visit the Great Wall in spring or fall for better scenery and weather and to avoid crowds, and consider having a guide. Times Holidays offers you this advice and our service to plan a perfect Great Wall trip. Tour buses may not take you where you want to go, and you are guaranteed a “Chinese tour experience” of being herded from place to place. We recommend taking a private tour. If you come all the way to China to see the Great Wall, why settle for a second-rate experience.
The best times to visit the Great Wall (around Beijing) are spring and autumn to avoid summer heat and crowds, and winter freezing conditions.
Times Holidays provides a tailored itinerary, comfortable air-conditioned transport, and one-to-one tour guiding, if necessary. It takes about 2 hours on average to get to the Great Wall from downtown Beijing. If you stay at a hotel near the Great Wall, you can enjoy the Great Wall when it is less crowded, in the early morning.
Camping is not allowed at popular sections like Mutianyu. Camping would need to be done at the wild sections (e.g. Jiankou, Gubeikou).
Shops/guesthouses near the wild Great Wall are very rural and don’t sell camping equipment/supplies. Campers would have to carry tents and everything else needed on the uneven and sometimes steep Great Wall paths, which is very strenuous. Beware trips and sprains, and dehydration. Carry lots of water.
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Times Holidays Travel & Tours (881562-X) is an internationally owned and managed travel agency and tour operator in Sabah, Malaysia that specializes in organizing tours to countries like China, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia and etc. (License No. KPK/LN: 6256)