The Great Wall Hiking Around Beijing

Day 1

Place & Transport: Arrive in Beijing, Flight not included
Today's Activities: Airport Transfer (Beijing)

Accommodations: Days Inn Forbidden City Beijing (Economy) 

Day 2

Place & Transport: Beijing
Today's Activities: The Mutianyu Great Wall Hike, The Mutianyu Great Wall
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch, Chinese Dinner

- The Mutianyu Great Wall Hike (2 hours): Hiking along Mutianyu Great Wall will take 3-4 hours. This less-crowded section of the Great Wall is 90km NE of Beijing. Walk along the wall enjoy superb views through the watch towers and as it snakes across the hills and mountains. Wear good walking shoes and protection from the weather.
- The Mutianyu Great Wall (2 hours): This less-crowded section of the Great Wall is about 1.5-2 hours' drive from Beijing city center. A cable car takes you to a good section (avoiding a very steep climb), where you can walk along the wall, through the watch towers and enjoy superb views as it snakes across the hills and mountains. You can return by cable car, walk down or walk along the wall for about an hour to descend by chairlift. Wear comfortable walking shoes, and in summer prepare sun protection.

Accommodations: Jinshanling Great Wall Guest House 

Day 3

Place & Transport: Beijing
Today's Activities: Hike from The Gubeikou-Jinshanling Great Wall, The Gubeikou Great Wall
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch, Chinese Dinner

- Hike from The Gubeikou-Jinshanling Great Wall (5 hours): The Gubeikou of the Great Wall is composed of two parts – Panlongshan Great Wall and Wohushan Great Wall, as Wohushan Great Wall is now still completely wild and unrestored, so usually the hiking route is also named for Panlongshan to Jinshanling Great Wall. Visitors will pass several watch towers and beacon towers, which only have foundation stones by weathering. After 2-2.5 hours hiking, visitors might have reached the forbidden section within the military zone, visitors need make a detour and go down to the deep valley and begin the second part much tougher and challenging in bushes or fields. The whole journey is about 15km, can be finished in 5 hours with medium pace.
- The Gubeikou Great Wall (2 hours): Gubeikou had been a fortification of significant military importance since China's imperial era. The Great Wall at Gubeikou was built on precipitous mountain ridges which conform to the rolling mountain terrain. Gubeikou Great Wall has 143 beacon towers at an average interval of 156 meters, with the closest two being only 30 meters apart.

Accommodations: Jinshanling Great Wall Guest House 

Day 4

Place & Transport: Beijing
Today's Activities: Hiking from the Jinshanling Great Wall to Simatai Great Wall
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch, Chinese Dinner

- Hiking from the Jinshanling Great Wall to Simatai Great Wall (4 hours): Jinshanling Great Wall section is an ideal place for hiking enthusiasts to test themselves against its steep gradients and to enjoy the landscape. Jinshanling to Simatai section is a distance of about 10 km. Only partly restored, it's less crowded, and provides a unique view of the Wall, watchtowers and magnificent scenery. A flying fox (optional) operates at the end of the hike to take hikers to the bottom. This provides a spectacular view of the scenery around and the reservoir under the cable car. Comfortable walking shoes and protection from the weather are a necessity.

Accommodations: Huangya Guest House 

Day 5

Place & Transport: Beijing
Today's Activities: The Huangyaguan Great Wall Hike, The Huangyaguan Great Wall
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch

- The Huangyaguan Great Wall Hike (3 hours): Hiking along Huangyaguan Great Wall will take 2-3 hours. This precipitous wall clinging to the steep mountain has served as the guardian of Tianjin for centuries since its completion over 1,300 years ago. It is not dangerous, and features some interesting structures, such as watchtowers, parapets, and fire-pits.
- The Huangyaguan Great Wall (2 hours): The Huangyaguan Great Wall is 28 kilometers north of Ji county. Originally built in Tianbao 7th of Beiqi,the Huangyanguan was repaired for the first time in Ming Dynasty with bricks and for the second time in 1985. In 1986 it was listed as a key relics protection target of Tianjin city. Now it is also chosen as a patriotic education and national defense education base of Tianjin.

Accommodations: Days Inn Forbidden City Beijing (Economy) 

Day 6

Place & Transport: Depart Beijing, Flight not included
Today's Activities: Hotel to airport Transfer (Beijing)
Meals: Breakfast