China and the Great Wall of China from many is being the most popular tourist attraction. The place is beautiful, mysterious and adventurous. It is the mixture of all kinds of places, if you are a nature lover the place is best for you, if you like camping, hiking and belong to the adventure people category the place is also suitable for you and for those who come here to know about the history of the place.
The is beautiful for sure, it is a fact, but the place also has a rich history behind the each wall of the Great Wall. It impresses everyone who sees it for the time, from kids to adults. It has some peace, excitement and fun in the air, which make everyone feel happy. Great Wall tour in Beijing will be the best and most memorable vacation for you.
It had built for 2,000 years, this stone whistle consists of many Great Walls, some of which date back to the 5th century BC. Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, ordered these early parts of the Great Wall to connect with shelters to protect the New Empire from the plundering of northern tribes. Continue to inherit dynasty to continue building, westward expansion, guarded Silk Road desert Gobi. Together, the walls may have exceeded 30,000 miles.
Because the city wall is a defensive building, so you can understand the ancient Chinese architecture and engineering and military history and strategy.
The Great Wall tour in Beijing is the best place for children. It helps to increase their awareness and also curiosity to know more about the history. It can be the best place to visit with teens who always have curiosity to know more and more. If you are planning for a family trip the lace is really suitable each member will find something as per his/her interest.
The early part of the wall was made of rammed earth and local materials, red palm leaves of the Gobi desert, wild poplar trunks in the Tarim Basin and reeds in Gansu. Many of these places have been eroded for centuries, and most of the heritage we know of ancient city walls comes from the Ming Dynasty, from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century. The Ming wall extends from the Shanhaiguan mark on the Bohai Sea to the Jiayuguan mark on the Gobi, stretching nearly 4,500 nautical miles.
People in the Ming dynasty piled stones and bricks on the ground, built 20-foot-wide and 30-foot-high walls on the base, distorting Beijing's steep ridges. Surrounded by misty green hills, towering mountains are expected to rise, and the walls reflect the past – a sense of history and the art of penetrating ancient rocks.
Workers used pulleys to transport nearly seven feet of steel and weigh one ton on steep mountainsides. 10,000 observation towers and beacons every 200 to 300 yards for fast communication. As early as 200 BC, though the drum was the main form of communication, the soldiers later returned their foes with flame and smoke signals. Each tower along the wall has flammable material if needed. During the Ming dynasty, the cannon's voice warned of approaching danger.
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